CONVICTION and FORGIVENESS Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. ~ Jame 5:16 My patience is running out. I have purposed and man has despised. I have planned and man has set at naught. I have willed and you have resisted me. Do not be smug in your own ways; for your ways are not My ways. You are indulgent when I have called you to rigid discipline. You speak soft words when I would require you to speak the truth. You interfere with the convicting work of My Holy Spirit when you smooth over confession. I am not a severe God, unmindful of the frailties of human nature; but I am a God of divine love and holiness, and I desire your fellowship, and I long for you to know My joy. Man cannot forgive sin. Why do you then excuse either yourself or your brother? Before Me you stand or fall. Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another that you may be perfected. Rebuke, warn, and exhort each other with all long-suffering and patience. Love and forgive each other, but do not lighten conviction. My love and holiness are beyond your comprehension. I do not love you because you are sinless (how then could I love any?), but I am able to receive you into My fellowship and bring you close to My heart on the merits of the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Here rests your hope of cleaning and acceptance. Here is the only door of access between sinful man and a holy God. But here indeed is all you need. Then why set about to excuse and rationalize your sins when the way of confession and forgiveness stands open to you? Do not hinder Me, for time is precious, and I am waiting for you. (COME AWAY MY BELOVED by FRANCES J. ROBERTS)
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:44:03 +0000
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