Compromises

It's the small compromises that drag you away and lead you into sin.

It's a slow fade when you give yourself away... it's a slow fade, when black and white have turned to gray. - Casting Crowns



Casting Crowns - Slow Fade (official video) from Casting Crowns on Vimeo.



For example:
God showed me that my obsession with sugar was separating me from Him. (It consumed me and took my focus off Him and put it on things of this earth- namely- food. Consumed with consumption.) So I decided that I wasn't going to eat sugar (this is per the GOD OF THE UNIVERSE! So I better be obedient!) and I've done good so far, I guess. But I've NOT done great...I've not been FAITHFUL.

I started off well....reading all the labels of everything I ate... and if it had the slightest trace of sugar, I said "NO WAY! I'm steering clear of that!!" But one day I was at someone's house and I didn't want to be rude, so I didn't ask what was in the food....and then I ate a piece of bread. We all know that bread...white, processed, fancy fabulous bread MUST have SUGAR in it!! Sooooo.... since I had done it once, and since God didn't send down fire from heaven to burn me up (ha!) ... I started eating bread regularly.... and then before I knew it I was eating mondo amounts of Chick-fil-A chicken sandwiches and perusing the ice cream aisle at Walmart! UGH!!!

For the record, I still haven't eaten any deserts or anything really sugary (by the GRACE of GOD who LOVES me and HOLDS me).... but I DID eat a bag of frozen corn with some sauce on it that had sugar as an ingredient and I KNEW it and I SHOULDN'T have eaten it, but I DID. I also have been eating whatever else people cook for me (pretending to myself that I wasn't thinking through the fact that there is probably sugar in all the ingredients (i.e. salad dressing on a salad)). I'm sooooo TWISTED!

Anyway- I confess. I'm calling myself out. And I'm going to rely on the Holy Spirit to keep working in me to conform me into Christ's image... to make me into someone who God can be proud to call His child. 

Carissa,
WHAT could possibly be more important than being 100% OBEDIENT to the CREATOR, SUSTAINER, PROVIDER, SOURCE of all things? He created me. I must obey!

"If your hand- even your stronger hand - causes you to sin, 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 be thrown into hell." - Jesus (Matthew 5:30)