This week I've really been trying to mourn over my sins. It's easy when they're big and ugly and obvious, but when everything's going smoothly and as planned, it's a little harder to see the filth. However, this is when I've found that it's so easy to lose humility. The minute you say you have it, you lose it! There needs to be shame of our sin. So many times, we measure our sins (as if we have that authority). We think, "Well at least I didn't do such and such!" or "That wasn't as bad as that one time..." or sometimes, we don't even try and acknowledge that we messed up. I know I'm the worst at looking my sin in the face each and every day! It's hard. It hurts. But it's necessary and there is so much healing in it. Yet sometimes, I forget how to blush.
v. 27-30- "I have made you a tester of metals and my people are ore, that you may observe and test their ways. They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly. The bellow blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged ore. They are called rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them."We have each been called to preach preach preach the Word! It's not up to us to decide who has open ears and who is simply impossible to reach! Who are we to choose who may and may not enter the Kingdom of Heaven? It's our job, so we need to do it for the glory of our Almighty God!
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