Ownership of Sin
Today’s passage makes this truth clear: You cannot blame your present sin on the sin of others. You are personally held responsible for your actions.
							
					
															Today’s passage makes this truth clear: You cannot blame your present sin on the sin of others. You are personally held responsible for your actions.
							
					
															Do you have anything, besides God, set up in your heart?
							
					
															False prophets and teachers will be around until the end of time. Therefore, we need to know how to spot them. Ezekiel 13 gives us three important things to look for.
							
					
															God will bring you back home, too, if you let Him. He wants you to be His child. He desires to be your God. He will take the heart that is divided and make it fully His.
							
					
															While you may not have received the vision from God that Ezekiel did, many of you reading this are watchmen.
							
					
															The author, probably Jeremiah, understands that Babylon was used merely as a human instrument of God’s judgment. Yet through his laments, he wrestles with the ways of God.
							
					
															Maybe today the scars of your life show that you have lived far from God. You know the consequence of walking away. You know the inward pain and regret. You know the hurt that you have caused others. But please hear this – there is no sin that God cannot and will not forgive.
							
					
															
							
					
															Jesus once told a story about a man whose ground produced a good crop. The man was already wealthy; his barns were full. But instead of generosity, he practiced greed. He tore down his barns and built bigger ones. He was focused on his own security.
							
					
															
							
					
															As believers, our purpose is to do great things for God. Our ambition should be to follow hard after Him.
							
					
															
							
					
															God loves us too much to allow us to play by the spiritual life’s equivalent of a busy highway. He loves us too much to allow us to continue living in spiritual danger.
							
					
															
							
					
															How are you doing with the Scripture that you know? Are you obeying it or choosing to ignore it?
							
					
															
							
					
															All of us sin. All of us stray. And all of us must understand and practice true confession.
							
					
															God promises to hear our cries. And He promises that when we seek Him with a sincere heart, we will find Him waiting for us with open arms. God is not finished with you!
							
					
															In Him, there is forgiveness and restoration. Don’t run from God (You can’t!). Run to Him. He is waiting with open arms.