Monday 14 Oct 2013

Monday Reading: Proverbs 15:8-9

Key Verse: Proverbs 15:8
8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, But the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Devotion:
If you wanted someone to help you with a children’s party, would you look for the help of a complete stranger or would you look for the help of someone you knew? Would you accept the help from someone you knew was bad with children or someone who was trusted by everyone? The choice seems very simple when we look at it from different eyes like this, but it is a choice we often forget when we are on the inside and expecting God to forget about things we want to let slide.

Never forget that God is just and that He cannot and will not abide sin! Why then should we expect God to do things for us if we are not going to even try to keep His law to begin with? If we are trying and failing because of other issues then we can always ask for the strength and wisdom to get help with those issues; but if we know what is wrong and refuse to change, then we are asking God to accept our sin and live with it!

God would love us all to be without sin; that is not something we can ever hope to be without Christ. God would love it if we were able to live our lives without sin, but again that is not possible because of our sin nature that we inherit all the way back from Adam and Eve. But just because we do have this sin nature does not mean that we have to give in to it all the time and live as sinful people. Christ gave His life on the cross so that we would not have to be bound by that sin nature. He has given us the chance to choose the sinful ways or choose to not sin!

Think how happy you would be if nobody ever did anything wrong against you. Now think what a joy it would be for God if we tried our best to not sin against Him! We may not have a good start in our lives because of our sin, but as we live we can choose to follow Christ and His ways giving us a better walk with God. Christ has given us the chance to break free from our lives of sin but we are the ones who have to take that opportunity to walk without sin. He will strengthen us on that walk if we ask Him to!

Points to Ponder:
Do you give in and go with the flow?

Or do you try to make a choice?