Darkness Cannot Exist in Light

Originally posted on Facebook on Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 11:11pm

Lord, let me not walk in the counsel of the wicked, stand in the way of sinners, or (most importantly for this note) take the seat of a mocker. (Ps 1:1)

After reading the word, a few books by christian writers like Francis Chan and Donald Miller, hearing multimple sermons recently about sin and God's will, and most importantly being led by the spirit I feel compeled to remind myself and others of this fact--darkness cannot exist in light.

Some Christians feel that we are allowed to do whatever we please. We sometimes feel that as long as we go to Church and take communion, smile, do "the right thing" we are righteous. We can continue to have sex outside of marriage, smoke, drink, pander to our laziness, our stomach, and our sin. "We are saved by Christ and can just repent right?" Yes, but repentance actually requires action and a change of heart and orientation...

Consider 1 John 3:9: "No one who is born of God will contiue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God."

When you choose to profess Jesus as lord, receive the grace of God through baptism, and dye to your old sins it means truly that-dying to your old sins. You are reborn as you symbolically rise from the watery grave of the baptistry; clean, new, and filled with the holy spirit. That doesn't mean that you go back to sinful paths... Why would you return to what kills you?

We can't live a life of habitual sin and continue to follow the will of the father...

The fact is you are a slave to something. 2 Peter 2:19 says that "...a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him." Would you rather be a slave to a loving God who has purchased/redeemed you from death, or would you rather be a slave to death, sin, and ultimately satan...

In reality a Christian who continues to live in habitual sin is lukewarm. "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. " When you become lukewarm (and we all eventually will at one point) you must catch the fire of God again. Most often we become lukewarm because we are not focused on eternity, we are focused on the world and therefore will be bound by it. Don't focus on the temporal, focus on eternity and how you'll be spending it and you can't help but be on fire for God.