There
is no one Satan is quite as ruthless with as the person who once walked with
God and has turned aside. The enemy
shades this person's eyes and takes away his peripheral vision spiritually so
that he cannot see how far off the narrow path he has turned. Everything seems so good and true about what
he is doing. The older brother who
despised the mercy his father provided his younger brother felt not the least
twinge of guilt for thinking as he did.
Yet he could not have been farther from God if he had shot his father in
the head. The root of the older
brother's falling away is that he wanted what his younger brother had...the
life of sin and then the easy way out of it.
He was not satisfied with all the good he had done working along-side
his father; he had to own the party his father threw for his brother. Christian people who begin strong are most
likely to fall away when they look around and want what God has given another. The discontent seems holy at first; I deserve
better and I am certain God will realize how badly I have been treated. As soon as God becomes the "unjust
judge" or the "inadequate master", Satan has the upper hand in
the Christian's life and he is cooked.
There is only one way back for such a believer. Repent.
Acknowledge your sin and turn to God in humble acceptance of your
guilt. Our Lord does not beg us to
return to Him when we drift off and in fact He may become as silent as an
Antarctic iceberg. He did not chase
after the younger son who walked away from Him and He let the older brother
boycott the party. We are free to hold
our grudges and search for life away from God but it is a glorious day when we
realize what we have done and seek out again the Savior who redeems us from
Satan's velvet grasp. What should we do
if we have a friend who has fallen away from God? Rely on the Holy Spirit to make you so alive
in God that the person who has made his home in "Balaam's country"
will hunger for Christ again.
"When he came to his senses, he said,
'How many of my father's hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving
to death! Luke 15:17 NIV
1 comment:
Amen, one of the most dangerous sin hides in human beings, sometimes including saved Christians is the hierarchical mindset. They wanna set up everything based upon hierarchy according to their understanding, fit in their wish, just like the babel tower was built, people habitually thinks if they walking with God for longer time that they should receive more benefits from it, if a new saved people looking like get more benefits than their, then the sin stucked in their head will tell them "hey, it's not fair!".
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