Friday, February 12, 2016

Hunger is the Best Sauce

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:

Unknown said...

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!".