So still in Leviticus, YAY!! Yesterday, I was reading about discharges that make you unclean...what a topic, huh? And as you read more details into what all made them unclean and what lengths they had to go to stay clean, you can't help but think about your life now. I know talking about discharges is a little less than appetizing to most of us but HE began to take the principles that are applied to them, and apply them to my life. The same is true of me in my sin...I can infect and affect everyone!
You are asking yourself right now, what is Kendall talking about? Well, if you read chapter 15 about how anyone who sits in the same chair or lays in the bed or touches someone who has some sort of discharge is immediately made unclean. How can we not stop and ask ourselves how our sin (discharge) is affecting anyone who is near us or anyone who just happens to sit in a seat after us? My unconfessed sins or those sins I think are just normal can and will most definitely affect others...to the point that they too are made unclean just by being in the same vicinity as this sinner!
This lesson really hit me hard yesterday as a friend of mine went to the US Embassy to see if he could receive a tourist visa to come and visit us in the States. He was denied. Why? Well, I have no idea outside that they said he did not have a wife or kids that would be a reason for him to return to Colombia. I had such a peace about this appointment yesterday. I mean, he and I had pryd and pryd over this and felt that HE had opened the door for him to go at this time. After I received his call saying that he was denied, I could not help but think that maybe he had been affected/infected by unconfessed sin in my life. Do I really think that he was denied because of me...I don't know but I think that this is such a great example of the reason why we have to confess our sins to HIM each and every moment.
I have gotten in the habit here in Colombia to ask for HIM to forgive my sins at the end of my pryrs, as it is customary to do here. I feel like maybe I have always been so general in my asking for forgiveness. Reading HIS laws in Leviticus have really opened my eyes into the true confession and consecration process. As I have started the practice of moment by moment confessing each and every thing that is contrary to HIM, it has really helped me guard my actions/thoughts/words. As well as help me understand just who I am as I gaze into HIS Face and all of HIS Majesty! It has been a very humbling process and with this new truth being revealed to me...it is ever more important!! My sin could affect someone in their decision to give their life to HIM and follow HIM...and I just can't have that!! The disappointment I felt as I listened to my friend tell me he did not get his visa would be nothing in comparison to hearing that someone did not accept or hear because of my sin!
Think about it...
You are asking yourself right now, what is Kendall talking about? Well, if you read chapter 15 about how anyone who sits in the same chair or lays in the bed or touches someone who has some sort of discharge is immediately made unclean. How can we not stop and ask ourselves how our sin (discharge) is affecting anyone who is near us or anyone who just happens to sit in a seat after us? My unconfessed sins or those sins I think are just normal can and will most definitely affect others...to the point that they too are made unclean just by being in the same vicinity as this sinner!
This lesson really hit me hard yesterday as a friend of mine went to the US Embassy to see if he could receive a tourist visa to come and visit us in the States. He was denied. Why? Well, I have no idea outside that they said he did not have a wife or kids that would be a reason for him to return to Colombia. I had such a peace about this appointment yesterday. I mean, he and I had pryd and pryd over this and felt that HE had opened the door for him to go at this time. After I received his call saying that he was denied, I could not help but think that maybe he had been affected/infected by unconfessed sin in my life. Do I really think that he was denied because of me...I don't know but I think that this is such a great example of the reason why we have to confess our sins to HIM each and every moment.
I have gotten in the habit here in Colombia to ask for HIM to forgive my sins at the end of my pryrs, as it is customary to do here. I feel like maybe I have always been so general in my asking for forgiveness. Reading HIS laws in Leviticus have really opened my eyes into the true confession and consecration process. As I have started the practice of moment by moment confessing each and every thing that is contrary to HIM, it has really helped me guard my actions/thoughts/words. As well as help me understand just who I am as I gaze into HIS Face and all of HIS Majesty! It has been a very humbling process and with this new truth being revealed to me...it is ever more important!! My sin could affect someone in their decision to give their life to HIM and follow HIM...and I just can't have that!! The disappointment I felt as I listened to my friend tell me he did not get his visa would be nothing in comparison to hearing that someone did not accept or hear because of my sin!
Think about it...
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