Have you ever looked in the mirror at yourself….you know….the self that you’ve been looking at for (place your own age here)….and then walked away and forgot what you looked like?
No….you recognize yourself each time you look. You recognize every tiny blemish that wasn’t previously there. Sometimes we ask others if they can see it. A lot of times they’ll squint in search of what you’re looking at….and the person with the blemish says…”look closer” or “look, it’s right here.”
Others can’t really see it unless we point it out.
That’s like the sin in our life. Sin sneaks in. It starts out like a tiny blemish. Sometimes us and God are the only ones that knows it’s there. Others have to search hard in order to find it….because people have learned to keep their sin well hid. The real problem is….it’s NEVER hid from God. EVER!
Confessing it is vital to our continual walk with the Lord. God already knows our sin but He expects us to confess it to Him…more for ourselves than anything.
He also expects us to walk away from it!
It’s easy to lie to ourselves, but when we verbalize the sin and expose it to the light of Jesus then he is able to enter that part of our heart. He never forces Himself…but He stands there and knocks.
God tells us in His Word that we should examine our hearts.
2 Corinthians 13:5
and
Lamentations 3:40
That’s like looking into a mirror…we should look at our own hearts often enough that we recognize when something is not right and we fix it.
It doesn’t do us any good if we know what God says and then are totally disobedient to it.
James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
James 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
James 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. (KJV)
We have to put what we learn in God’s Word into full action.
JAMES 2:20
Faith without works is dead (KJV)
so…we can’t pick and choose which parts of the Bible applies to us…it ALL applies to us.
DEUTERONOMY 4:2
In order to do that effectively we have to self examine our hearts daily.
2 CORINTHIANS 13:5
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? (KJV)
self examining helps us stay on target for Christ and as He reveals blemishes within us then we can better come up with a plan (WITH THE LORDS HELP) to keep that sin/blemish from getting out of control and becoming a sin that could possibly destroy us or at least give us long lasting scars from.
Self examination is not always easy….sometimes it exposes things in ourselves that are unpleasing even to us…. can you imagine how they make Christ feel? After all….He’s the one that died on the cross for our sins. Not for us to sin freely….but in order for us to be free from our sin.
(IT’LL BE GOOD TO READ ALL OF THE FOLLOWING PASSAGES ABOUT BEING FREE FROM SIN)
ROMANS 6:18-23
Keeping our life in ship shape so as not to be corrupted is not Gods job…it’s ours. He’s already made the way.
His part is finished.
JOHN 19:30
IT IS FINISHED…and He hung His head and gave up the ghost.
We can look in the mirror and easily see all of our imperfections that maybe nobody else will notice, but do we ever take the time to look into our hearts and see what’s there and ask God to reveal our imperfections….our blemishes?
Look into your own heart and examine it. Take a long hard look at what’s in there. Look as if you’re looking into a mirror where the blemishes can easily be seen by you and allow yourself to be brutally honest….. Remind yourself that it’s your own soul that you will stand before God in judgment for the blemishes you choose to keep concealed instead of allowing them to be revealed and repented of before it’s too late. You will stand alone to give an account before the Lord. Not your parents, your siblings, your grandparents, your neighbor, or your best friend that thinks they know all your deepest secrets…. it’ll be you standing alone before the Lord. He already sees the blemish and He’s already made a way of escape for you. All you have to do is ask Him to lead you.
So What about that blemish in your heart? Are you ready to confess it and give God full authority over it so that He can help you overcome it and make the blemish lose its power so that you can walk free….
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