Wednesday October 3, 2012

One of the best remedies for recurring sin is accountability. Find someone today to confess your sins to and let him/her keep you  accountable regularly.

 

Read 1 Corinthians 5:6-8; 1 John 1:9

 

Imagine having a reminder in front of you regularly that showed you in no uncertain terms that sin should be removed from your life.  You do have a reminder, one that’s there 24/7!

 

But for the Israelites, the offerings that were to have no yeast were a constant reminder to them to remove the sin from their lives and also that sin, like yeast, when allowed into our lives works through our life to work havoc and destruction.

 

Our reminder is far more personal and intimate. We have the Holy Spirit dwelling with us to remind us, to urge us and to empower us to remove sin from our lives. Sin like yeast in dough, really does work through our lives. It begins with temptation. Even though we know that the sin tempting us is wrong and shouldn’t be entertained, we allow it to stay on the edge of our lives. Even from there, it takes over and becomes the sole focus of our thoughts. After a while we justify our indulgence in that sin. Put bluntly, we make excuses for ourselves so that we don’t feel guilty. After we are happy with our excuse for indulgence, we dive into sin and swim around in it.

 

The Lord reveals something about our true nature in our 1 Corinthians 5 reading. He tells us that we are really without yeast, without sin. That is because we have been cleansed and washed by the sacrifice of Jesus. Our life’s goal should be to become all that we are in Christ. Striving for that will put the sin knocking at our heart’s door into its right perspective.  And if we should happen to fall into sin, which should be the exception not the rule, then we have an advocate in the Lord’s presence who pleads forgiveness for us. God assures us that when we do happen to sin, He will forgive us and purify us from all sins.

Prayer:

Write down your prayer points in the space provided. Use today’s reading to help you get ideas.

 

Adoration:

 

Confession:

 

Thanks:

 

Supplication:

¥ Pray that each and every person in your congregation would be striving to be all that they are in Christ and that they would willingly and joyously put aside any sin in their lives.

¥ Pray that a Spirit of holiness will descend upon all the churches in Toowoomba and in Australia. Our witness to the world will never be taken seriously while we indulge in sin. Pray that believers will truly seek to become all that they are in Christ and that this would shine brightly to the non Christian world.