Did you ever watch those cartoons where the character does a real quick change of direction, and you hear a screech of tires (even though he's a rabbit or a squirrel or a turtle etc. and they're on dirt?!?!) and see a puff of dust? Well, that's what God did for me this week. My earlier thoughts on the "No More Going Through the Motions" sermon series regarding relationships took an abrupt turn.
The topic is now on simply "No More Going Through the Motions... in my life." It's going to draw on Psalm 1 and the fact that we are slowly drawn away from God and led into "bigger" sins via these incremental steps we take away from Him. It's a "slow fade" the Christian band Casting Crowns calls it.
We never find ourselves committing adultery or embezzling millions of dollars from our work all on the first opportunity we've ever had to commit a like sin. It happens when we commit many other similar ones before it, then justifying the next one, saying to ourselves that "since the last one was OK (I didn't repent of it and my conscience just got comfortable with it), what's wrong with this next one?"
It's because we didn't surround ourselves with Godly people to hold us accountable "way back then" when the first "easy" sins were being committed. We weren't finding our strength in the Bible to show us that we were heading down the wrong path.
But the Good News is that we have forgiveness of those sins. Each and every one of them! Through Jesus our Savior. We're brought back from that fade into Living Color!
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