You are gambling on your destiny when you think that God will pardon you after death. When you fail to obey God during your lifetime, it is folly on your part to think like that. Remember that young man who went to Jesus to ask him: “Master, what good must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus asked him about the law which he promptly recited to Jesus straight theory from the head!
Like most people can easily recite our Lord’s prayer, the young man told Jesus that he had kept all the laws right from his youth. Jesus told him thereafter to go and sell all his possessions to give to the poor and then carry his cross and follow him. But Jesus just put His finger upon the pet sin of that young man. When Jesus touched it, the Bible says, the man was grieved in his heart and consequently walked away because he was being ruled by his wealth.
As you seek the Lord, remember that God will always put His finger on your pet sin as he did to that rich young ruler. Your failure to cast your pet sin on the altar will equally put you in grief like him.
When God speaks to you, no matter how small and still, is the voice, obey. Get rid of that pet sin and go on with God, because toying with your pet sin is gambling with your destiny.
Your pet sin is the sin you don’t want the preacher to mention, it is the sin you are fond of making an excuse for, it is the sin you cleverly commit in secret which no one can detect, it is the sin that easily leads into captive, it is the sin you are always ready to defend, it causes doubt when you are praying.
Your pet sin is the one you find difficult to give up, the sin you think is so small that God cannot see! Yet it is so prominent to you that you cannot easily beset sin; it is the sin you call your weakness or the inherited from your grandfather. Why not be honest with yourself by calling sin its proper name?
Instead of such people sincerely agreeing that they are very jealous persons, they would rather claim that they are just being watchful. Instead of others conceding that they are proud, they would rather admit that they exaggerate; they opine that they are just expressing themselves.
In preference for having a perverse and stubborn spirit, some would say, “I just want to be firm.” Rather than agree that they have a critical spirit, some will say they have the spirit of discernment. Those who ought to admit that it is fear that is ruling their lives would submit that they are just a bit nervous.
But it is high time, to be honest with yourself and make sure you sincerely call a spade a spade in these last days. Call sin a sin, get down before God, and ask Him to set you free and to make you an overcomer. You are, however, not ready yet if you are saying that, after all, the majority are doing it, and as such, you are not the only one doing it. But as you determine that you don’t want the small sin to spoil your divine destiny and to destroy your eternity then you must cry unto the Lord in repentance.
A lot of us need to find our tears again, that is, in sorrowful repentance unto God.
shalom!
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