The last 2 days it has been so beautiful and close to 50 degrees! Suddenly today it is cold and is a blizzard and just horrible. It sucked to walk out to my car after school and sucked to drive in. It is of course beautiful because its Gods creation but can be dangerous and hurtful! It happened so fast. It just all made me think about sin. Our walk with God can be so beautiful. It can also be so quickly turned around and into a blizzard.
God leads us down a path of righteousness and safety. To protect us and lead us to Him. God created this world for us. He created things like school for our good, flowers, phones, and He even created love and closeness for good between marriage. These things can all turned into sin though. They can be horrible things that turn our lives upside down. They bring a storm into our lives. It can be so sudden and we don't even realize it at the time but as soon as we give into temptation we give into pain and hurt.
We can do so many things that seem right and pointing our lives to God and then one wrong thing can be so destructive. It feels like a storm and changes out life. Just like a storm can be very dangerous and hurt people so can our sin. It can even kill people perhaps if we are addicted to drinking and drink and drive. It can hurt people and change their lives. There is never ever a right moment to sin. It always hurts others or ourselves. Always. It can be so sudden and we never see sin coming. We can live a perfect life and then do one thing not for God. Do we still have a perfect life then? No. If Jesus had sinned one time He wouldn't have been perfect and been our King. Sin is a storm that won't end until we hand it over to God. Even then our sin is still possibly hurting others. Once you do it you can't take it back.
Even things that are meant to be beautiful can be turned into sin and seek and kill us. What can be beautiful can also be sin.
It is crazy hurtful to realize how horrible sin is. God hates sin more than we can ever know. Sin is so ugly and horrible. Sin deserves the punishment of death. Sometimes we sin and don't even know it. God is there to save us. Sin makes me want to cry. I know this girl who last week sinned and the way she talked about it and had no idea she sinned is so sad. There is an incredible amount of sin in this world and no one is acknowledging it! We should fall at Gods feet and beg for forgiveness!
There is so much sadness in this world that God can take away!
I am laid low in the dust; preserve my life according to your word. I gave an account of my ways and you answered me; teach me your decrees. Cause me to understand the way of your precepts, that I may meditate on your wonderful deeds. My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word. Keep me from deceitful ways; be gracious to me and teach me your law. I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set my heart on your laws. I hold fast to your statutes, Lord; do not let me be put to shame. I run in the path of your commands, for you have broadened my understanding. Teach me, Lord, the way of your decrees, that I may follow it to the end. (Psalm 119:25-33 NIV).
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. (Isaiah 40:28-31 NIV).
If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them. (James 4:17 NIV).
Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy. (Proverbs 28:13 NIV).
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:7-9 NIV).
I want to be a light in this world and sin to be no more. Jesus came to save us and that He did. I don't want sin to take over my life or those I love. Sin doesn't have to happen. He is there for us.
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