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Prepare your heart for this thought:
YUCK!
Ecclesiastes 10: 1
Dead flies will cause even a bottle
of perfume to stink! Yes, a small mistake can outweigh much wisdom and honor.
Wow..... that's pretty bad. Do you see a comparison? I do. I see that we who are
created in the image and likeness of God are as beautiful in his sight as a
fresh fragrant perfume, but when sin enters we start to die. Asking God to
forgive you of your sin is a way of renewing your freshness. God's word
tells us that a small mistake can outweigh much wisdom and honor. We who are
saved have a responsibility to live as children of the light. God gives each of
us wisdom through the gift of his Holy Spirit and it is an honor to
carry that wisdom to a dying world. The problem is that as ambassadors of Christ
we must be careful in the decisions and choices we make because the world is
watching us. Most of the time they watch for us to make a mistake because they
believe that we are all hypocrites anyway.
Don't take lightly your duty to
represent Christ. Before you walk out your door in the morning you better be
ready to choose right from wrong so that you don't dishonor God. People who know
you as "the Christian" can be mislead into thinking that Christianity is not
much different then the worlds view if they see you acting worldly. As a child
of the living God you are beautiful in his eyes. If you make a mistake, ask for
forgiveness. But what ever you do....... don't stink up this world with your
small minded selfish ideas that lead you into sin.
I looked up the definition
of stink weed just to see how it was described. You know what it said? It said
"The plant has an unpleasant odor, particularly when the leaves are crushed".
Now that says a lot.... it says that sin in its self is bad, but when you allow
it to crush your inner soul, the smell of death gets worse.
Have you ever
noticed that when you come to the cross roads of a decision that you should not
be entertaining anyway that you find yourself feeling a little bad about
the compromise your about to make? But... it kind of really does not seem so
bad?.... Until you do it! Then you realize that you fell into sin
worse then you thought it was going to be.
Now..... back to the flies and the
perfume. When is the last time you saw just one fly hovering over something
dead? You didn't, because flies.... like sin, swarm in when something is dead or dying.
When you start to think about compromising...... the devil swarms in just like
those awful flies and he tries to get you to sin so that he can laugh at God and
enjoy seeing one of Gods beautiful people fall.
Because sin separates us from
God we must be aware that every bad decision has a bad consequence. If you have to think
twice about doing something...... it's probably not right because truth is
easy to see and you never have to think twice about it.
If your heart has been
touched, please feel free to email me at:
Jina@preparingyourheart.com
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