Destroy Sins

I love that God has made me individual and unique. One of the greatest gifts he has given me is the ability to be transparent and vulnerable with majority of people. It can really suck when I have to open up about the sins in my life but I always love seeing what God does through my openness. Let me tell you, he does a lot.

A few months back I was struggling with a lot of destructive sins in my life. I felt a huge gap between where I stood and where God was. I couldn’t get back to a relationship with God that I needed and desired. It took time but once I fully removed the sin in my life I was back.

I was sharing with a friend about the sins in my life and she asked me, “How is your relationship with God?”

At the time, I thought it was fine. I was a new believer and felt just a stagnant feeling. I was still hearing from God but I didn’t feel a light of the Holy Spirit within me.

My friend said that God couldn’t be where sin was. Since there was so much sin in my life that I was refusing to give up, God wasn’t in the room with me. He wasn’t in my home. He wasn’t rooted in me.

In Joshua 7, the Lord commanded Joshua to take over Ai, east of Bethel. Joshua only sent part of their armies to go attack Ai and were defeated. The people in Joshua’s troop had given up and were fearful because they saw how big Ai was.

The people became so confused why God had sent them all this way to die at the hands of the people in Ai. They were lacking trust in God’s plan.

But God said to Joshua in Joshua 7:10-12, “‘Get up! Why are you lying on your face like this? Israel has sinned and broken my covenant! They have stolen some of the things that I commanded must be set apart for me. And they have not only stolen them but have lied about it and hidden the things among their own belongings. That is why the Israelites are running from their enemies in defeat. For now Israel itself has been set apart for destruction. I will not remain with you any longer unless you destroy the things among you that were set apart for destruction.’”

God told Joshua that he would not remain with him if he did not destroy the things that God had asked him to.

I was doing the same thing.

God was asking me to destroy the sin in my life but I was refusing to. I was scared to give it up because it was healing me worldly desires. On February 9, 2017 I gave up my sin. I gave up lust.

I am made pure through the Holy Spirit and can delight fully in the Lord.

What are you not destroying that God is calling you to?

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