Practicing Sin & Closeness to God Doesn't Mix (TMF:1265)

Friday, November 22, 2019
Peace to Live By: Practicing Sin & Closeness to God Doesn't Mix (TMF:1265) - Daniel Litton
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       We need to have a clear conscience so we can pray. If we feel condemned about something, we need to confess our sin to God so he can forgive us and our fellowship can be restored. However, willingly sinning in our daily lives, continually doing something that we know to be wrong, ruins our fellowship with God, and really our relationship with him. We won’t feel comfortable being close to him if we have willful sin in our lives. We may even try to fellowship with him, but we don’t feel his presence on the other end because we know, deep down, we have not been living in a right way. We will surely feel hypocritical in this instance. And so we must have complete surrender to God in all things. There can be nothing that we hold onto, whether sinful or not sinful, something that we hold as a higher value than God himself. Our love for God needs to be pure. In reality, when you get down to it, nothing matters but God. If you say that to ourselves over and over in prayer, you can enter a deep mediation and closeness with God indeed. This is something I personally practice from time to time and it makes me feel like a million bucks.