| Written by ola aroyehun,
on Saturday 11/13/10
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Sinning against you. I had yet another experience recently that I simply must share with you. The details of the incident are perhaps not as important as the lesson to be learned from it.
As a family, we were relocating to another city. It was important that we moved before the new school term started. As the weeks went by, we quickly realised that it was going to be too late to buy and settle into our new property. So we decided to rent temporarily, whilst we took our time to buy.
We soon discovered that renting was not an easy affair. You had to give so much detailed and personal information about yourself – an experience we had not been accustomed to. In addition, there was a shortage of rental property, and particularly the size that we needed. Sometimes for a property we were competing with 10 other people.
So we decided to develop a strategy, we would simply withhold important information i.e. provide just enough information to get by. In some cases, we did not answer questions in a straightforward way. We took on the attitude of the world. There are times of course when you don’t and should not divulge information about yourself but this was not one of those occasions.
Guess what! It became almost impossible to get a place and things became more difficult. I used to lay on my bed wrestling with God. My conscience was not clear because I was withholding information and feeling guilty about it. So, the next time around, we decided to give them all the information that was requested. Immediately I felt at peace and in fact, we were actually able to rent a property.
However, that’s not the end of the story. I went back to the Lord to ask why all that had happened and his words startled me. He said ‘I kept you from sinning against me’. The Bible encourages us to keep away from the appearance of evil and many times; we try our best not to sin against God. But it is a different story when God keeps you from sinning against him. There is a precedent in the Bible when God prevented a man from sinning against him. The story is recorded in Genesis 20:1-18 and particularly verse 6.
6 Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.
The direct intervention of God to stop us from sinning against Him is still available today.
The Lord further told me that that incident that would have caused embarrassment to me and more importantly to the body of Christ in the future. We all know how it is, sometimes as we spend time trying to do what we think may be ‘an easy way out’ in a difficult situation, knowing that in our hearts of hearts God’s word would be put into disrepute, not to talk of the accompanying stress this may have on us.
I learned something else through this experience, it is not enough to want to keep away from sin, we need the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Why not pray a simple prayer with me .. ‘Lord, keep me from sinning against you’. How lovely when God Himself stops you from sinning against Him. I know because I have recently been there.
Trust that this post has been a blessing to you; so until I appear again in your inbox, stay blessed
Ola
Last update : Saturday 11/13/10
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