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For You
Are A Slave
To Whatever Controls You
Don’t
look down on someone else just because they have become slaves to a certain sin
because my friend it could very easily happen to you. You and I are always just
a choice away from allowing sin to take God’s place on the throne of our
hearts. But don’t you condone his or her sinful living. Don’t you dare make
excuses for that person’s sinful lifestyle.
Scripture
19b … For you are a slave to whatever controls you.
Observation
We
are all slaves to something. Either you and I allow ourselves to be slaves of
the Lord Jesus Christ or we will be slaves to whatever we have allowed to
control us. The Apostle Peter was describing false teachers who had crept into
the fellowship of believers and were leading people astray with a perverted way
of living.
Constantly
we are bombarded with things that want to control us. And once we are under
that particular sin’s control we become a slave to it. It owns us.
All
types of sexual immorality, greed, power, drugs, alcohol, over eating, all of
these and so many more things can easily become our master and immediately we
begin to rationalize our sinful lifestyle and we blame everyone around us for
our bad situation and our bad behavior.
But
be careful … because … it can happen to any of us.
Don’t
look down on someone else just because they have become slaves to a certain sin
because my friend it could very easily happen to you. You and I are always just
a choice away from allowing sin to take God’s place on the throne of our
hearts.
But
don’t you dare condone it. Don’t make excuses for that person’s lifestyle
either.
Pray
for them. And if and when you have the opportunity speak God’s truth into his
or her life hopefully they will listen and they will turn from their life of
sin and turn back to Christ.
I
am praying for some people right now that I believe have allowed sin to become
their master. I am praying for the right opportunity to be able to speak to
them about the direction of their lives. Until God shows or gives me that
opportunity I am going to continue to pray for them.
There
is nothing more important for me to do for them than to cry out to God on their
behalf.
When
I do get to finally speak to them I realize that I could mess up. I could say
the wrong thing. I could speak to them when I had the wrong heart attitude. I
could speak to them when my motives were not pure. So I will continue to pray
for them until the Lord opens up the opportunity for me to talk to them.
Application
I
will continue to pray for those who need to return to a right relationship with
Jesus. How about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, help me to keep my focus off of myself and give me a heart of
compassion for those around me. Give me Your eyes and Your heart for the people
that You bring into my life. Give me the ability to love them like You love
them. I know that it is easy for me to see the splinter in someone else’s eye
and not pay attention to the beam that is in mine.
Give me strength today to
say “no” to sin and “yes” to You. I want You to be in control of my life today.
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