blog 13: name this blog

The other day I was putting my youngest to sleep. I put her on my king size bed with pillows around…I know I know she needs to be in a safer place. Don’t worry! We’re putting the crib together tonight! Give me a break she’s my third child! lol

After I lay her down I go into another room and watch her put herself to sleep. I have her in this little weighted sack and sometimes she’s isn’t ready to sleep so she kinda rolls around like little caterpillar. None the less I have to be ready to jump up and grab her if she starts to get to close to the edge.

There are times I just sit there and watch her sit up and babble or play with her bottle and I am in awe of how beautiful and silly she is. It really is pure love. Then there’s times I look at the monitor and she’s a little too close to the edge …(remember crib is up tonight! lol)

That’s how God the Father is with us. He looks at us in awe and love. But when we start to get close to an edge there He comes to save us with his mercy and grace.

Now my baby is on the move, she loves to jump around and even has fallen off the couch head first once. I’ve now started showing her how to get down backwards off the couch. Slowly she tries but now she’s a little more cautious after her fall.

I’ve learned in my walk it’s out of love that God disciplines us and corrects us. Just like how I’ve had to show my baby to gently get off the couch so that she doesn’t get hurt , that’s how He is with us. He has given us the Holy Spirit to help us get off the couch safely lol.

He has also given us His word has a guide line for what to do and what NOT to do in this lifetime

Confession moment:

The other night my YouTube took me to this dating show. I was intrigued, as I was watching they started talking about sex. At first I was like eh it’s whatever , but then I started to feel the conviction. I felt the Holy Spirit tell me. “This is doing nothing for you spirit.” “Why are you allowing this in?” In reality it’s just garbage. Was it entertaining? I mean I guess but nothing more than that.

I believe we as Christ followers think like this way too much!

Eh it’s just a show

Eh it’s just a drink

Eh it’s just song ,

Just a concert

Just a friend

Eh It’s just a…..

I feel so compelled in my spirit to speak about sin but another part of me doesn’t want to hurt peoples feelings. But you see when I came to Jesus I didn’t know much! I didn’t know that sex outside of marriage was a sin, I didn’t know getting drunk was a sin, I didn’t know LYING was a sin!

I even had to really question it.

It took someone to tell me . Then it took me to read it for myself. I had to see that it actually said that. And it did.

So my friend out of Love for you I tell you these are a few things that are sin. You cannot get close to the Father , or have freedom if you’re choosing to still do these things.

One scripture that always holds me accountable is this..

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, 10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God

I love the next verse

11 Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

You see that was me, I was once all that! I come from all of that. My MIL asked me as I told her some of my crazy stories …”did you not have any morals ?”

I paused for a second …”mmmm no, no I didn’t”

You see I was so engulfed in the world and the things of the world , how could I know these things were wrong? Everyone did it, everyone seemed to be having fun, it all seemed okay.

I did NOT know Gods word.

I didn’t know Him.

I didn’t know that He has instructions for me to live a freeing life, a joyful life , a peaceful life.

People get it wrong they say ..”dang you’re brain washed ..you can’t drink or party or do what you want?”

To that …I say what my first pastor would say “yes my brain is washed, washed from all that garbage” - Pastor Art.

The path to heaven ..its narrow. Few find it.

Because it does take a discipline that’s not of this world. It takes a mind set that goes against everything . It goes against our own human nature . To get that power over yourself it’s NOT you, it is ONLY through the Holy Spirit , the Spirit of God , the Helper that you can truly get there.

The only reason I am not drinking or smoking weed right now is because of the Spirit inside me. That’s the truth.

Matthew 7:13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

We have to hear this. Because the Lord loves us and doesn’t want us to perish. We have to STOP being like the world . Partaking in things the world does. Sin is simple. It’s anything that separates us from God. That could be social media. Maybe there’s some things popping up in your explore page that take you down a path you know you shouldn’t be on.

Get rid of it.

Maybe your social media feeds you full of fear and worry because of the horrible things in the world. That send you into losing hope and being anxious.

Get rid of it!

Maybe there’s a friend who feeds you all this negativity and pulls you towards the world.

Get rid of them.

Now more than ever it is NOT the time to play church. It’s not the time to say you’re a Christian but you go against everything God is calling you to be and not to be.

These things may sound dramatic, but look what Jesus says …

Matthew 5:29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

Wow right! We have to know ourselves. As followers of Christ it is not just going to church on Sundays and saying we love Jesus that will be getting us into heaven.

It’s denying yourself , denying what your flesh wants. Truly transforming into the imagine of Christ in all ways.

I get it! It’s hard! It’s so hard these days. There’s distractions right in our hands, sin is now right at our fingertips , but I feel such an urge to write this. Jesus is coming back sooner and sooner if you just look at the world all the signs are there.

The world is getting ugly.

God gave us His word so that we would not be blind sided to the signs of the end. Hes given us His word so that we can be aware. So that we don’t get caught off guard.

Maybe you’re new to this whole following Jesus thing, and you’re still stuck in these things. THATS OK! It took me awhile to stop smoking weed, it took me awhile to get rid of habits and hang ups, and I still mess up. The Holy Spirit is so gracious with us. But I was very very grateful that someone told me about sin. I was thankful that someone told me the truth. Then I could do whatever I wanted with it. That’s why I feel compelled to tell whoever is reading, that sin will separate us from God IF we stay in it. God is calling people to walk the narrow path. FEW find it. Few!! We have to be the few.

Remember God is merciful and loving , just like I watch my baby on the monitor and when she starts to get close to the edge I run in there are, that’s how God is with us. He doesn’t want us to go down the wrong path. He doesn’t want us to be away from Him. He loves us beyond what you can even imagine. He sends people into our lives to go along side us and help us in this life. He’s given you all the tools you need to not only go against what the world is enticing you to, but to have true freedom over it ALL!! With freedom comes joy, and peace. Don’t let the enemy lie to you as you come to the end of this blog. I’ll leave you with His word and a challenge in your prayer time.

Hebrews 12 :5-6 MSG “Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children?

My dear child, don’t shrug off God’s discipline,
    but don’t be crushed by it either.
It’s the child he loves that he disciplines;
    the child he embraces, he also corrects.”

My Prayer today is that we would really ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the things in our lives that are pulling us away from God and help us to truly turn away from those things. I pray that we learn who God is in His love and mercy for us. That he corrects those He loves.

I hope this spoke to you friends, I love you!

ONE LOVE