Corrosion
A car battery has corrosion on its battery cables. But that is all right because no one can see it, and it is just a little spot. But corrosion and corruption do not stay hidden or small. The corrosion of a battery cable will eventually separate the automobile from its power source, and then it will refuse to start. Then, the most beautiful car in the world will be useless because it cannot do what it was designed to do.
Corrosion
And here we find the churches of our nation. Claiming the approval of God, we tolerate, accept, and even celebrate sin. We choose unrepentant leaders. We refuse to stand for righteousness. We will not confront sinfulness because we don’t want to be considered judgmental. Indeed, we cannot see to judge because of the log that is in our own eye.
Our nation has ceased to be exalted because righteousness has ceased to be important in our lives. Since righteousness is not important, then neither is God’s approval. If you do not seek God’s approval, can you call yourself a Child of God? Let me remind you: God said: “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14)
Are you listening?
“I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”
https://bible.com/bible/114/gal.5.17-25.NKJV
Douglas & Deborah Huff
From Down Where the Pavement Ends
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