Today’s Devotional written By My Spiritual Daughter, Whom I have watched God mature, mold, make and develop: Mrs. Tracy A Dixon (Shane’s Boo)
Consequences….the Choice is Yours!
1 John 3:6-8 (New Living Translation)
6 Anyone who continues to live in him will not sin. But anyone who keeps on sinning does not know him or understand who he is.7 Dear children, don’t let anyone deceive you about this: When people do what is right, it shows that they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous. 8 But when people keep on sinning, it shows that they belong to the devil, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil.
Today’s message in the music comes from R.Kelly’s song “I Don’t Mean It”. The chorus of the song says: Now I might say you can walk. (But I don't mean it). And I might name call. (I don't mean it). I may pull some silly stunts. But that's just a front, I don't mean it. Now I may holler at you. (I don't mean it). And I may tell you we're through. (But I don't mean) May give you looks that can kill. But it's not for real. I don't mean it. The context of the song is a man singing to his woman. He seems to want to be able to do and say what he wants to do, and then be forgiven because he claims he didn’t mean it.
As God began to speak to me last week, this song instantly came to mind because of some Christians live this way. We want to do what we want, when we want and how we want and then expect to say “oops, I didn’t mean too”, and expect God to turn a blind eye. Some of us have been misled and we think that grace and mercy are in place to keep us from experiencing the consequences of our OWN ACTIONS.
Somewhere in our past, we have convinced ourselves that we can fornicate before marriage or cheat within our marriage, and we won’t get caught, pregnant or infected with a terminal disease. We have tricked our minds into believing we can lie, cheat and steal our way to the top, and the truth won’t come out if we repent and ask God to forgive us. We think it’s okay to be a homosexual or live on the down low, just as long as we plead the blood over our mess and say it won’t happen again. We want to smoke, drink and inject any and everything into God’s temples and then claim by His stripes we are healed when the doctor says we have cancer or damaged organs. Well, God is no longer playing children games with adult participants. He is getting ready to take His grace and mercy off of those who are guilty of abusing the system.
Sunday our Bishop re-quoted this statement; in life, make original mistakes. What a powerful message. Stop willingly committing the same sin over and over because you think God’s forgiveness equals His forgetting your transgression. You will go to Heaven if you truly accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, but you just might still have a stroke, heart attack, failed kidney, or something worse. The choice is yours, choose life and make decisions that please God. His wisdom is available: you can learn it the easy way, or earn it the hard way.
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