Secrets

Hi Ladies,

If you’re new to this blog, please visit some of the earlier posts. They’ll provide a foundation for the deeper waters we’re treading into.  I’ve tried to shorten the posts for you busy ladies, but their biblical information is difficult to cut!  I’ll keep working to edit them down, but my mandate is to share what “Thus saith The LORD”, the sole reason for the blog.  Now let’s investigate the remaining trap attempting to ensnare the Christian woman who has ventured into the error of premarital sex.

Trap #3 is when we’ve succumbed to a reprobate mind.  There is nothing that The LORD will not forgive if we are sincere in seeking His forgiveness.  But to develop a stony heart of disobedience is to forsake Our Father’s mercy and help.  The actions discussed in the last post signify true blasphemy, a word that Dictionary.com defines as “an act of cursing or reviling God”.

This condition is described in Mark 3: 28, 29 – “Assuredly I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter, but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.”

4) THE SECRET SIN

When we begin a process of justification and acceptance of a debased state of mind or an immoral activity, we remove ourselves from the Source of our strength.   Instead we reject Our Father in favor of adopting a pet sin.  Rather than renouncing it, we decide to keep and protect our “weakness”, sheltering it in a closet, a hidden place that we keep shut away from God and everyone else.  It becomes the secret sin, the one that nobody else knows about.   But when we keep quietly feeding, nurturing and protecting it, eventually it will outgrow that closet and will burst out into the light for all to see.

Shielding and harboring a pet sin will alter our relationship with The LORD. Instead of coming to Him confessing our disobedience, the increasingly sporadic times when we do pray will be spent skirting around the issue as if God doesn’t know it’s there.  Of course He does, but we’ve decided to believe a lie, a delusion of our own choosing.  The lie is whatever makes us feel better without confronting the actual situation.

The lie could be that “Everything really is all right”; or that “It is well with my soul”. It could be that “God understands, and this is not such a big deal”.  The delusion may be that if it’s left alone, the “problem” will eventually go away, and we’ll automatically be back in right standing with Our Creator.

But sins don’t just disappear of their own volition. Instead they dig in deeper, and grow bigger.  When we decide to keep and protect one, we’ve just given the devil a stronghold, a foothold in our life, which he can and will use against us.

As Believers we must always understand that we are to forsake sin, not try to reason with, control, or reform it. Nothing that the adversary sends our way, no matter how appealing it appears to be, must be allowed to intervene and subvert our relationship with Jesus Christ.  We must be ready to stop running from, stop agreeing with, stop appeasing, and stop cohabitating with the enemy.  An immoral impulse cannot be coddled because its’ ultimate goal is to destroy us.  Our only choice is to combat and eliminate it.  Only then can the Holy Spirit regain ascendency over the physical, reducing the enemy to a defeated foe, and restoring us into correct alignment with God.

But we have been given the keys in Scripture to open up the lock to our closet of secrets, and to soften our hardened heart. The way to a happy, godly, spiritually fulfilling marriage lies only in following the path that Our Father has ordained.  What can be done to repair the damage, and to proper prepare for the arrival of our mate?  

More next Wednesday…Joy and Shalom!