FEELING ICKY?

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
I John 1:9

Though his bedtime had long passed, the five-year-old boy hollered for his mother: “I have an icky feeling inside!” The tired mother trudged up the stairs to her son’s bedroom. Opening the door, she heard a long list of little-boy sins spill out of her child’s troubles soul. They had talked about sin before, but this time the boy understood what sin felt like—icky. Do you ever get that icky feeling? Maybe you’ve gotten so used to it that you hardly notice anymore. The Bible tells us how Moses needed to remove sin from the Israelites’ camp near Mount Sinai (Exodus 32). The revival that had occurred only days earlier had radically turned into outright rebellion. Gross sin was present, and many of the Israelites were not convicted. It took the slaying of three thousand men to purge the sin that had entered their camp. The heaviness of sin weighs us down and keeps us from being used by the Lord to our fullest potential. Repentance is needed. Confess your sin now, and ask God to bring renewal to your heart. 

“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.”
C.S. Lewis 

In Christ,
Pastor Steve