By G. Neil Armstrong

Some people become indifferent to the sin in their life. In a short time, the person adapts to and conforms to a way of life that kills him, and he likes it. The person becomes blind to it. He doesnt even identify it as wrong any longer. It could be that he never did know it was wrong. My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6)

All of the things that are a part of our daily lives; of those, we have learned to accept wickedness and to measure it as though it were good. At the very least, the person thinks it to be normal. He can no longer identify it as unto death.

There is no sin in God at all, and He will have no part in sin, neither directly nor indirectly. He let humanity KILL HIS PERFECT SON to pay for this sin that WE DECIDED was okay for us. Even while we killed Jesus, the Christ; the SON OF GOD, we reveled and reviled and basked in our filthy sin and WE ACTUALLY THOUGHT WE WERE RIGHT!

Romans 1 and especially verses 18-31 makes clear how we have taken sin into our lived to such a degree that we dont even see the wrong in it. The person who dont go with the flow of such reviling sin is thought to be the one who is wrong! Save us, Jesus! Help us to do Romans 12:2. I pray in Jesus Name.

It isnt finished. It dont stop there. This thing has evolved. We have gone from being the hunted to being the hunter. We are no longer just the victims. We are now the victimizers. What did I do wrong? Did you ask that question? EVER? I counter that question with this: What didnt I do wrong? More so, what did I do right? Our righteousness is as filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6), and because we wear these rags as ornaments of prestige, we have forgotten what a clean thing is.

When a clean thing comes to us as Jesus did, we recognize our filth because we see the clean and the unclean side-by-side. Naturally, a person doesnt want to trouble himself to improve, to come clean. No Way! Theres shame in there! Theres remorse to reckon with! These things look too much like weakness.

I am strong. I can withstand the oppressive prand and filthy insinuations of he who says he is my friend and laugh at it. I am tough. I can handle that. I dont show weakness when the law strips me of all that I have. I am made poverty but I am strong. This is not so.

You are NOT dignified. You are humiliated to its basest form; striped barren and taken into the captivity of desolation. This is the attribute of the enemy. John 10:10 does give us a stark contrast of good and evil. Choose this day who it is that you will serve (Joshua 24:15).

Thursday, September 10, 2009