When I am out of synch (Part 21)

• When I forget God, and good things happen, God tells me don't be a happy camper because I rejected Him. (Hosea 9:1) It's not about prosperity. It's not about success. It's all about my love for God because He first loved me and whether or not I recognize that. You see, I was loved by Him and He chose me. And it was as in Hosea 9:10, “like grapes in the wilderness”. He saw fruit growing in me. But then I hurt Him by making other things my idol. I am amazed because on so many levels He called His son out of Egypt. (Hosea 11:1). He called the Isrealites during the Exodus out of Egypt. He brought Jesus out of Egypt. And when I am in a land that doesn't respect me but wants to us me then He calls me. He always initiates, He gives me the chance. But so often I still forget I have His love because I have chosen Him. (Malachi 1:2).I forget Him and hence become detestable to Him. (Malachi 2:11). Never as harmful as when I forget His forgiveness. When I don't forgive, I won't be forgiven. (Luke 7:47)

When I am out of synch (part 20)

• Is it a sin to complain?Is it a sin to discourage or to look into the dark cloud rather than to see the silver lining? What happens when I complain about not being able to handle something? Like time management? Like task management? I;m not talking about the occasional gripe, I'm talking about an attitude that nothing is right with what the world does because they are not doing it my way. I am talking about the selfishness of doing things my way and only my way. The blessing indeed gets removed from me and given to someone who is ok with multitasking, or having time crammed where one feels as though there is indeed no rest.. (Ps 109:17) As I feel walls closing in they actually do. As I complain about a situation it becomes worse. Rather than giving it all to God, rather than relying on Him to show me the way I would rather mope and say I can't find my way. Isn't that the same as saying God is not all powerful after all? What if I choose to follow an idol such as food or time or anything that I say is more important than God? What if I choose to say God didn't create the rain or God didn't make the sun? Science did it, or the sun god did it... What then? Jeremiah 8:2 speaks of just those people who worshipped nature and who never praised God as not being buried but being left to be fed off of. Jeremiah 14:10 says that God will not look with favor on those who stray from Him when they do stray. Indeed God will show us who we really are, lover of false securities, lover of false beauty, rather than His true love. (Ezekiel 16:37)

When I am out of synch (part 19)

• What happens when I look into the eyes of someone who has not yet put Christ on? What happens when I fall in love with someone who has not accepted Christ or even repented of ways that Christ would not approve of. We all do it. We all sin and His blood covers us always but He expects repentance, not deceit and not vain speech. He desires obedience not sacrifice, because obedience is repentance, sacrifice is merely doing correction out of obligation. (Judges 16:4) Unless I repent, I will be caught up in the same sin over and over and over. And unless I repent I won;t know that what I am feeling is sinful rather than Ok, or I will justify feelings I have, like Ammon for his very own sister. (2 Samuel 13:1) Of course this only results in further sin. (2 Samuel 13:14-15),