Just look at the lives of people like David who decided to be where he wasn't supposed to be and started a whole line of drama and sin that ended in the death of one of his best friends and the death of his own child. David got cozy in the sin he committed. He got so cozy in fact that it became the furthest thing from his mind until someone showed up and told him about his self, and as a result of his sin he lost a son. The wages of sin is death.
Think about Jonah who ran away from God and got on a ship going the opposite way of where God told him to go. A storm showed up and Jonah was cozy in the bottom of the ship sleeping while everybody else was terrified and freaking out. His sin was affecting the others and for a while he was okay with that until they made him face that sin.
When I think about David and Jonah, I honestly can't say that I truly believe that they never thought of what they'd done wrong. I bet it haunted them every day before someone came along and told them. Their comfortability with their sin was just a cover up, but on the inside they knew. They knew that things just were not right. I know because I've been there before.
Even when we think we can be cozy, we can't because eventually the sin is going to show itself and bite down on us, and the only freedom from it is to run to God in repentance and get away as fast as we can. That doesn't just go for sin though. It goes for any baggage that we deal with too. Any hurt or pain from the sins of others from the past. If it's a grudge let God heal the scars. Turn that stuff over to God. Baggage does nothing but hold us all down and hurts the people around us, and when we try to pretend we are all okay even when we're not it just makes things worse. We make messes and He makes beauty!
Christ says in Matthew 11 " 28 "Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves.
Why pass that up?
Why hold on to all the things that cause death?
I don't know, but what I do know is that He calls us to His side to lay those things down.
we don't have to pretend that things are all okay when they're not okay! =)
We can hand them over to Jesus and find rest =)
You Say Come a song I wrote a few months ago
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