Monday 19 Jan 2009

Monday Reading: Psalm 32:3-7
 
Key Verse: Psalm 32:3
3  When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long.
 
Devotion:
It is easy to not think about sin. It is easy to hide from the truth for a while; but the longer that we do it, the more we eat away at our soul. For as long as we do not care about sin and do not acknowledge it before God, we allow it to build up “in our bones”. We like to describe things that are deep within us as being within our bones or affecting our bones... and that is exactly where the consequences of sin hit us... The more we ignore our sins the more impatient we become in dealing with the consequences of them. If we do not admit to the fact that we build our lives upon our sins we are going to be really distraught when everything collapses within itself!

When God know that we know Him, He will not allow us to go about sinful lives without there being consequences. The last thing He would want us to do is to get used to sin in our lives... for as long as we are used to sin, we are separating ourselves from Him. Those consequences may well be the things that get us down, the things that ruin what we like in our lives. God wants us to have a happy and fruitful life and He will encourage us to do that. If we continue to ignore Him in our lives we will find that it is like walking into a drought where we will no longer find water.

Notice all the different words that are used in this short Psalm to describe sin and the consequences. Take a while to think of a few words that may be able to describe your sin. Would you use words that are harsh or would you try to choose something that may be “politically or socially correct” instead? Our sin come a long way, indeed right from the beginning of the world; but that does not give us the excuse to make it any less than it is – the reason why Christ went to the cross! All of our sins are known by us and by God. Nobody else knows about them all. That is why we need to come to the one that knows about them all and ask for His forgiveness. He is just and able to do exactly that as soon as we ask!

Points to Ponder:
How would you describe your life?

How would God describe it?