Apr. 5, 2007
Great Thought on Conviction
Posted in Spiritual Life
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This morning as I sat by my fire, listening to the wind absolutely HOWL for the third day in a row, I read this wonderful passage: Not once does God convict us in order to make us feel like wretches. He is out to restore fellowship and to flip the breaker that shut off the power. Remember, God's pursuit is relationship. Confession is one way to talk back after He speaks. He initiates conversation through conviction, and we answer back through confession... Conviction is a hand-delivered invitation to meet with God, and confession is an RSVP with immediate arrival..... Unconfessed sin clogs the pipeline between God's throne and our vessel. If you hold nothing back, neither will God. This is from the book Get Out of That Pit, by Beth Moore This blessed me so much. I have always wondered why I am blessed by being challenged, convicted, pricked, whatever word you want to use. I have always known that when it started in my heart, whether through a sermon, God's Word, a book, or a song, that if I followed the HS's prompting it would be GOOD. I am enthralled with how God convicts me and cleanses me from sin AGAIN, and again. How feeling deeply pure from God's forgiveness leaves me more in love with Him than ever, and longing to stay close to His feet and away from sin. I have never thought of conviction and confession as communication, but of course that makes perfect sense. Oh what a loving God we serve. I am so thankful to serve the One True God Who is alive and involved with my life. The teaching on sin and confession is missing in many churches today. I am not sure of the reasons, but I am wondering of we want to make people feel so comfortable in our pews that we neglect to bring up the very reason that Christ died, you know, our "sin" issue. How much do we mislead the lost into thinking that Jesus died for us to have a better life and in the process keep them from having the beautiful experience of a relationship based on confessing and restoration with our Heavenly Father, always aware that God's great gift of His Son's blood was to pay attonement for our sin? No wonder we weep when we sing in worship to our God, we have so much to love Him for, to praise Him for and to be thankful for. He is so worthy of our praise and adoration. |
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