Daily Devotionals by Ardith Keef

 
     There is no such thing as a benign sin.
     The thing that makes salvation so great is that not only is it now possible to know the Lord personally, but I have actually been delivered from the horrid inescapable slavedom of sin. 
     Many Christians are caught in hamster wheels today because of trying to operate in the spiritual realm under the name of Christ, while actually trying to flee from the responsibility of purity that a believer has.
      One thing I have certainly learned about life is: no one can make himself pure. That is the reason we needed a Savior.
      Furthermore, I can not keep myself pure - that is in my own strength. If I am not looking at Him, thinking of Him, living for Him and yielding to Him ongoingly, I loose all perspective, and the early stages of sin's mildew creep into every thought and word.
     Because the Bible is so firm about confession and because God does not operate where there is a mixture, (the definition of pure is a lack of mixture) I must come to Him.
     The common problem with sin is that the believer must realize there needs to be a position of assuming that he cannot know all the things that must be confessed. When I come before the Lord, the Holy Spirit will reveal what I need to know, and then I can unload the burden, so that I can go about my Father's business.
      It's not about my being perfect, it's about my being effective and prepared for His presence.
      We get paranoid about confession and look under our little toenails for fluffy things that we can get hold of with our tiny little brains. There! We have really done it! We have confessed all that we could think of!
     The truth is, we are proud. The truth is we are often unloving.  The truth is we are lethargic about our devotional lives. These are the things that must be confessed.
      And they are revealed as we come to pray. This is not a situation of trying to pick out my own lice - this is a time of blessed, supernatural cleansing, sight, and fellowship.

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