THE SIN THAT SO EASILY BESETS US

         I have, once again, been privy to the opportunity to slide into the old ideals and bad doctrines and, once again, I have found myself dragged right smack into the very thing GOD has showed me HE is not happy about. I am loath to say that I had the opportunity to speak, at a time when I most needed to speak, and was instead pulled into the current of worldly concerns and humanist efforts.

         I was once a wanna be politician. I am just smart enough to see things that are wrong and creative enough to see ways to deal with them. Like many (or really ALL) of our politicians, my insights and ideas are based in my understanding and human logic and are to be done in human power. That is the problem. Isn't it?

As a human being, I am not blind tot he plight on man. I see the disintegration of the physical world around me and I think I can do something about it. I want to do something about it.

         I was just at a ministerial fellowship meeting that was intended to be an effort to bring 4 different ministerial fellowships that had divided long ago, back together to work as one. Unity is a wonderful goal. An explanation of the reason for the split was given (which were human reasons based in worldly concerns) and it was clear that all those in the room wanted to work together and be a force for a common goal. There in lies the problem;

         The discussion was started by telling how the city had lost a $28,000,000.00 grant to rebuild a portion of the city because there was no cohesive group involved with acquiring the grant. Then the discussion went from there and was all about creating a political action group and had absolutely nothing to do with JESUS and bringing the blessings of GOD back to the city and the nation.

          I was struck by that reality, right after the end of the meeting as I stepped out of the room. Unfortunately, not be fore I tossed my voice into the conversation by making a comment that continued them down the same path that runs rapidly away from the precepts of GOD and the very message I have been teaching for 10 years. I was once again captured by humanism and the idea of unity. I had my chance and I didn't even see it, let alone take it.

         All I had to do was to stand up and ask, “Where is JESUS in this conversation?” That would have been it. We could have then, possibly, started down the path of determining how we could work together for the kingdom of GOD. But, NNNOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! I was caught in the flow, on the band wagon, marching in step with a group of ministers who had no thought to GOD or HIS power and plans. I was once again one of THEM.

          I am ashamed. I am embarrassed. I am angry with myself and really torqued at Satan and how he twists every good thing into something evil.

         This meeting was another evil in a long line of evils. Perhaps the most evil aspect, which I thankfully was not blind to, was that there were some there advocating that those who GOD has separated unto Himself as Holy before HIM, should mingle themselves with those of the religions of Satan and the spirit of anti-christ. Because humanism has not spiritual component.

         What fellowship has the light with darkness? How can one even hope to bring the blessings of GOD to the city when we are so humanist in our thinking that we can mingle that which is Holy and that which is abomination. If you are not striving to bring people to CHRIST, then you are striving against HIM. How can a people who should know they need to do as GOD has said, to have HIS blessing, want to bring those who are against CHRIST into an effort. If our focus is not on the glorification of JESUS and reflecting back to GOD what HE does to save our city and nation, then there will be no power from GOD and there will be no hope.

          I feel as if I have let people down who know the truth. I feel I have let those people who were there down, who don't know the truth. I let me down. If GOD were a man, that HE wouldn't have known what I was going to do (And had it to be so as part of HIS plan) I would say I let HIM down. But, I know my JESUS. I know that this is yet another lesson in why we must be fully prayed up and ready for battle at all times. I am more keenly aware today, then I was yesterday. Perhaps I will be even more so tomorrow. I entered the lions den unprepared. I was focused on the past and the stories of why these ministry associations had divided, and I was not focused on JESUS. I did not come to do battle with Satan because I came under a flag of peace and unity. I will not be so blinded next time. I hope.