This tar...

It truly is amazing, To keep in mind how awful we are here on earth. We have darkness in our hearts that never sees the light. We hide these obvious things thinking that he doesn't see, or maybe that he does and "I guess he doesn't care". It is a wretched thing, sin. It is what eats away at our soul. It is the tar that we spread on our hearts. It is the screen door that we always run into on our way to give God a huge hug. It is the bomb that is ticking before we loose ourselves in our shame, bitterness, and pride.

How will I ever escape this thing called sin? How will I ever feel perfectly confident to enter the presence of God? Yes, there is a confidence there...But really?

Sometimes I wonder, do we think that we're "ok"? Do we somehow forget or just stop caring that our sin has so covered our minds?

In all this we know that Christ has covered our sins, but have we become repelent of grace from the tar that so covers our Christian brothers and sisters? Where is repentence? Where is confession? Where is Revival/REVIVE ALL?

The truth is...we ARE doing this all wrong! We are so afraid to take that step of James 5:16 "confess your sins to each other and pray for each other and you will be healed; the prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective." How often to we have to hear how SICK the Christian Church is and how it needs HEALING before we can get off our butts (fear, pride, foolishness) and confess and REPENT.

How many more great pastors do we have to lose to sexual SIN before we can get a hint! How many more Christian families will hide the fact that they might have some DEEPLY ROOTED ISSUES that are going to destroy their children!!!

It seems to me that many have quit. It is so hard to hate sin and it wears on us. It is so hard for us sometimes to take up the cross daily, especially when daily we wake up not wanting to wake up.

IT IS GRACE THAT GET'S ME UP IN THE MORNING! THE FACT FACT FACT THAT GRACE HAS FREED US SO WE ARE ABLE TO YELL AND SCREAM HALLELUIAH!! TO GET OUR MINDS OUT OF THE LIE THAT SAYS, "I'm too tired to fight anymore..."! YOU UNBELIEVING PEOPLE! (that includes me) DON'T YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR FIGHT COMES FROM?!?! THE BATTLE IS SPIRITUAL! HE IS THE ONLY THING SPIRITUAL ABOUT US! WE ARE FLESHY and FOOLISH!

This tar gets thicker and it'll take alot of scraping to get it off. Why not start NOW! START NOW WHERE YOU ARE SITTING! START TO SEE HOW YOUR LOVE FOR CHRIST HAS DIMINISHED BECAUSE OF THE SHAME THAT WE BEAR FROM SIN! TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AGAIN! DO NOT PUT IT DOWN! FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT WITH THE MIGHT THAT GOD HAS POURED INTO YOU! FIGHT WITH SALVATION IN THE FRONT AND GRACE FOLLOWING CLOSE BEHIND!

FIGHT THIS TAR AND COME BACK TO YOUR MAKER!