The Exposure of Sin

           

No Christian can describe the premonition, the exposure of sin before their spirited eyes. It is as if their world has collapsed, and like the Apostle Paul’s conversion they come to realise the truth that everything they had been doing up until this moment has been completely wrong. It is by a work of God that anyone can have their eyes awoken to sin in their life. How could anyone simply pull away from sin with their own strength? It would be to consider the Lord’s armour in Ephesians 6 as nothing more than simply an option to wear.

But as it mentions in Ephesians 6:11, Paul says to put on the full armour of God. Paul never says to take it off when it gets too heavy, but if the armour does get too heavy than I can assure you already that it takes God’s strength to bear the full armour of God. If you want to know how to do anything in God’s strength look to Romans 12:2. Paul puts it simply like this: Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. 

So in doing anything in God’s strength is being transformed, being changed from what you used to conform to and to what you are being moulded into today and in the future. If you want discernment in knowing what is good, pleasing and perfect that entitles the will of God. Then read His word, spend time in prayer and fellowship with other believers. And by fellowship I mean fellowship, I don’t mean sit around talking about the latest movie or app you’ve downloaded. I mean real God fearing fellowship! Why is it that so many of us (including myself) waste the time we have with fellow believers? Why do we become more interested in conversing over menial trivialities and forget so quickly that God had spoken through His word into our hearts?

What an act of grace…that we should live when we have treated the Lord’s spoken word with a flippant attitude! What an act of love that we should live when we hurled our insults and slanderous speech at God. Through the way we live, by the way we talk, by the things we do, by the things we watch. If God is the citadel of life, then let us run back to Him! Embrace the Lord’s strength and put on that full armour! So much of God’s love rests on that one verse that I quote all the time, and rightly so because the display of God’s love is poured out into this verse Romans 5:8. But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!

And so if this is true brothers and sisters, that God would die for us being sinners and being His enemies. And since we have the Holy Spirit who testifies of our very actions, we need not dwell in sin anymore. But cling to the cross and do not presume upon it, because in clinging to it you recognise all that Christ has done. But in presuming it, you know nothing of what Christ has done.