Something that I have never understood is how someone who has claimed to know the Lord at one point in their life can run so far away from him. I know so many people that I have seen chase after God in an intimate way at certain points of life but then today see them not caring at all. It is something I can’t wrap my mind around. Does it make any sense to you?
I know everyone sins and can mess up. But what I don’t understand is people who sin and don’t care to repent. People who know what is right and know what the word says yet deliberately ignore it to do what they seek. This is one reason I think we are to fear the Lord. I am so scared to run away from following Gods plan in my life because I know without him I am lost. I am worth absolutely nothing without the Father.
What do you say to these people? What do you say to a person who knows scripture and knows they are in a life of sin yet continues to live that life without repent?
September 24, 2009...5:17 am
Doesn’t make sense.
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September 24, 2009 at 6:35 am
It almost always starts off small. Doing little things and not repenting. That gets us out of the habit of coming to God and confessing our sins and wanting to repent. Then the snowball effect takes over.
But what is needed to accelerate that is the group of friends that we surround ourselves with. If my friends don’t constantly hold me accountable for our sins (not whether or not we have quiet time or any of that stuff, that isn’t real accountability) then I don’t even think about it most of the time.
As David said tonight, when sin happens in our lives (especially the deep and dark ones) we like to hide it from our friends. So on our own, we don’t want to even deal with sin. We want to keep it a secret. We want to keep it safe.
So people who chase after God at one point and then are almost unaware of Him at another are usually the ones who have also surrounded themselves with friends who are in the same boat, and thus have become very distant.
Let us constantly seek the presence of God and the council God through our friends, lest we find ourselves wondering what happened to our relationship with Him.