So I mean I usually don't care how many people read my blog however if it were possible to care less this would be that time. I don't know where this idea came from but what I am going to do is in a couple seconds I'm going to flip open my bible and take a piece of scripture out and let God slap me in the face with what it's tell me. Get why I don't really care who reads this one now? This ones for me, but if you read it… well I don't really know but whatever.
……3……2……1 and we have 1 Peter 1:13 I haven't even read any of it yet and for some reason I can feel Gods got something here. It's like the wind from Gods hand as he winds up to smack me with something. This is exciting!
"13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."
SMACK There it is
Wow… How many times do we find ourselves slipping back into what we used to be before were saved by grace? How many times do we sit back and say to ourselves "Eh, saved by grace" and continue to do what we are doing? I know I'm guilty of that so many times, granted I've been getting so much better. But where was I before? How can I find myself in that state? Are you really looking for an answer? Well its because we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. I recently started working at a Starbucks and here is my not so wild example… When someone orders a coffee and I go to fill up the cup I take the cup and pull one of those little handles on top of a spout and HOT coffee comes pouring down. While it's pouring down it will spit and spray little droplets out, which always seem to find my hand. The first time it HURT I almost dropped the cup, but then each time since then that I've gotten coffee I've quickly become callus to the burn of the little drops. Now its to the point that even sometimes when a big drop hits my hand I don't even flinch. Our hearts work Exactly the same way with sins. The little ones hurt badly at first but without even noticing it we become callus to those to where we don't even know(or care) that they're even happening. Now that occasional bigger sin comes flying out of the cup and onto my hand and I barely even notice. How quickly and easily do we become callus to the things that break the heart of our Saviour? To keep going with the metaphor that God is slapping me with this, he just left a HUGE hand print on my cheek. Jesus said "Be holy, Because I am holy" The only way to even have a chance at this is to peal back the calluses that this world so quickly has placed over us. Let those little drops burn EVERY time. No longer let yourself be callused because it is our choice, they are given to us be we choose to keep them. Why do we do this? Is it because "Eh, saved by grace"? What other reason does anyone have to be doing the things we KNOW are wrong? It can't be blamed on ignorance because we know what we are doing is wrong. Its a callus that may have been placed there against our will, but we kept it there, allowing it to become apart of us. Its time that we collectively rip off these calluses and feel the sting of everything we do against God, because after all God feels every little thing we do against him.
