Erosion! Is it happening in your life?

Good morning everyone! God is good all the time, all the time God is good. TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!

So, what is going on in your world? Are you following God's word? Do you take it for what it says? Do you believe it is written for you today? Just like it was written for people of the ancient days.

Many times our daily walk is like building a sand castle at the beach. When we finish we step back and look at our creation. But then, as the tide begins to roll in and gets closer and closer to our castle things begin to happen. Erosion is taking place, the foundation is weakened, the walls begin to sag, eventually the complete structure weakens and comes crashing down.

Does this erosion happen in your Christian life. Something that you once considered unthinkable is now tolerated. Example, many Christians don't "curse" yet they will use words like: crap, darn, fricken or friggen, son of a ....(then tail off), and on and on. Is this really okay with God? Or is it just okay with God in our minds - called justification or rationalizing? We cannot escape the consequences of the erosion of our Christian lives.

Exodus 34:6-7 "Yahweh! The LORD! The God of compassion and mercy! I am slow to anger and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness. I lavish unfailing love to a thousand generations. I forgive iniquity rebellion, and sin. But I do not excuse the guilty. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children and grandchildren, the entire family is affected- even children in the third and fourth generation."

Here Moses wanted to see God. God did not give Moses a vision of his power and majesty, but of his love. God's glory is revealed in his mercy, grace, compassion, faithfulness forgiveness and justice. God's love and mercy are wonderful and we do benefit from them.

Verse 7 talks about sins affecting children and grandchildren. Children do suffer from the sins of their parents. Huh? How? Consider child abuse, alcoholism, drugs, stealing, or whatever. These are selfish sins and the consequences of these sins do affect others.

We cannot treat sin or the erosion of our Christian life lightly. We need to repent and turn from it - but will we. Not in our own strength, but in the strength of the LORD, God, who is our saviour. Please take time today, stop the erosion, build not on sinking sand but on the ROCK, Jesus Christ. Love you all.

In Christ's Love and Grace

Johnny