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- 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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