Why Are We Turning Our Heads
Galatians 6:1 Amplified Bible (AMP)
1BRETHREN, IF any person is overtaken in misconduct or sin of any sort, you who are spiritual [who are responsive to and controlled by the Spirit] should set him right and restore and reinstate him, without any sense of superiority and with all gentleness, keeping an attentive eye on yourself, lest you should be tempted also.
Many times writing the devotional is not easy, because I hear God so clearly and the subject matter that He wants me to address is not always popular. Especially when it comes to restoration or addressing matters that pertain to Christian living. People want to kill the messenger. They want to ask question like why are you judging, or don’t you remember when you did x y and z? God gave us salvation through Christ Jesus, for a reason, have any of us ever thought why that is? Most of us have gotten comfortable in the place where we think salvation is about us alone, about our level of comfort, our blessings, our growth and our making it into heaven. That is but one small part of what salvation is about. I was listening to a pastor share last night and it really struck a chord, we are saved to bring salvation. Our wrongs were righted to help someone else’s wrongs be righted, not to condone the sinful nature, words, deeds and behaviors of those around us, just because we once were there.
But strangely enough many of us can’t help anyone else because we have not chosen to come all the way out of sin ourselves. We are still playing with fire, compromising and dipping in and out of salvation, so how can we help, encourage or instruct anyone else? We can’t. So many of us, are raising our hands in worship on Sunday morning, and right after service are ready to cuss someone or we are. Many of us live in the world Monday through Saturday, and every Sunday we want to have a come to Jesus moment. Yes repentance is great, and we need to be in a constant state of evaluation and repentance, but when are we to grow, so that we can stop turning our head from the hurts, ills, and sins of the world and we have enough in us to begin to give to someone else, to begin to show someone else the way, to be the example that God is pleased with and that someone can follow to Christ? Yes we are going to struggle sometimes, but all of the time, or we have been saved for ten years and we are still struggling with the same issues we were the day we came to Christ, that should not be.
This is a season that God is calling for us to be accountable, not just for ourselves, but for the things that are nearest and dearest to His heart, the reconciliation and restoration of people to Him. The Bible says in 2Peter 3:9, “The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people's conception of slowness, but He is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance.” God doesn’t want anyone to be lost, beginning with us, but then we should be doing something with what we have. We should be extending our hand to someone else to help them up. The light of God in us should shine so bright that it causes people to gravitate to us and it illuminates the path that leads to Christ. Stop turning away when you see sin, despair, and hurt around you. Be the example, the one that can speak into someone else’s life, someone that can lead by example into the Kingdom of God. Be the one who has a right to say come out of that, because what God did for me He can and will do for you too!
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