Originally I intended to do more or less a journal entry this morning. Maybe post some kind of profound insight. In my heart I more or less wanted to do just enough, to skirt around any true conviction. It hurts to be brutally honest with God. It hurts for God to be brutally honest with us! I wonder if Noah had bad days?? I wonder if he ever wanted to put down the hammer and just give in to the violence or various other sins going on around him. Maybe if we can take off our own masquerade of being above it all, we would say as Paul did..what a wretched man that I am!!. Let me be the first to say it, there is no way I could possibly rise above the sins around me without the Grace of God!
In all honesty I wish I could post a plug and play formula to cause us to be completely free. I wish I had a few key memory verses and all filthiness of the flesh and Spirit would be washed away! No dear Saint of God not now nor ever will I be able to post a quick easy way to win in Christ. Experience has taught me yielding to righteousness and pouring out my soul to God is the most difficult, yet the most rewarding, aspect of my Christian experience.
This morning God reminded me of a passage of scripture in the book of Ezekiel. Of course I would like to say I found this while studying, praying, fasting, reading etc. No that would be dishonest-I did hear it from a man of God up in New York city. Let me credit where credit is due..The man name is Bro Paul Johansen( may be spelled wrong) Any case at the time(he may still be) was running the School of Urban Ministry as a extension of Elim bible school near Rochester, New York.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
"And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.
Do I need to say anymore..Where is America's soul in this?? Where is our soul in this?? May the Grace of God help us all!!!
May the Grace of God establish you!
In Christ Love
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