Comment: Have
you ever thought “I have a lot to say, but I do not have the words to speak!”
For me it is like having ‘one word’ that bounces from side wall to side wall in
my brain while I seek to add other words to it. This happens mostly when I am
writing, but occasionally while in conversation with others. I do not think it
is a physical condition or anything like that, but it is more like waiting for
the subject to develop enough to express verbal or written thought. As I have
been going through Ephesians and Colossians a thought is developing that may
reach of point of writing about today, so with all that said, let me get
started. We may not finish Colossians 3 today as I had hoped, but that is okay
with me. The subject I am going to write about is IMPORTANT, the epistles of
all the New Testament writers are filled with * this subject. *The word AVOIDING is extracted as it was a typographical error.
Devotional: I would be remiss if I did not include the Old
Testament; From Genesis through the gospels and up to Acts 1:12, when the first
New Testament church/prayer meeting began. This prayer meeting began in order
to choose another man to take the place of Judas who SINNED. Sin is a major
player in the hearts of men, women and children. Truth be understood and
reckoned with, there is not an hour that goes by in the life of every person
alive where SIN is not present and active. Yet, people deny the presence of
SIN, as do many churches.
Here is the rub! Sin is the
cause of the prophesy of Psalm 22, written by King David to express the
suffering, praise and posterity of the Messiah who would come in the future
(about 700 years future) to take away the SIN of the world. The LAMB of God did
not give up His Life for His selfish will, for is was written in the Book (The Old
Testament Scrolls), see Hebrews 10:5-10. Christ/Messiah came to fulfill God’s
Will, see also Psalm 40:6-8.
Sin was the problem in the
Garden of Eden, and the flood that destroyed the world. Sin was the problem in
the wilderness journey of God’s chosen people. Idolatry and Immorality ruined Sampson,
Solomon, David, the Northern and Southern kingdoms of Israel, and all nations
in the world. Sin, personal and corporate permeates our world today. Yet, today
people and nations claim that they have NO SIN. Does this not call God a liar?
See the first chapter of 1 John, all ten verses reveal this.
If you care to look about you
today in your journeys, you will see many people SINNING, they think little of
it, but whoa; wait a moment, could you be in the thick of it yourself. Say
what? Yes, you could aide or abet with their sins either by agreement or
practice, you will sin even if you look away, I know at times I do. Life is not
some sort of precatory as we wait for relief of living in a sin cursed world. Romans 6:13 And do not present your members as
instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being
alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
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