September 29, 2016

Greetings My Friend, What is done in the darkness will be brought out into the light. I have noticed that those secret sins most of us have usually will be found out sometime or other. It is a matter of time. Some people hide their secrete sins for years but eventually those sins are found out and brought out before the world to see and know. One of the most known secrete sins in the Bible is of David and Bathsheeba. David sees her bathing out on a roof top, desires her and has her brought to him. She becomes pregnant informs David so he has her husband Uriah killed and then marries Bathsheeba. God sent the prophet Nathan to let David know that this sin was not hidden from Him. David repents so he will live but David's sin means he will be publicly humiliated publicly. I see that one of David's sons tries to take the kingdom, sleeps with all of David's wives and concubines in a tent on a roof right in the open. David and Bathsheeba repent with a genuine heart and later we see that Bathsheeba has another son and he becomes the King after David. That is so encouraging to me, David and Bathsheeba repent and then they go on to have a son on the throne. That is another thing I am learning to. Solomon was down fairly far in the lineage of David's sons but he became a king. In those days the eldest son inherited the most above all the other brothers. Back in Isaac's days God blessed Isaac's younger son,Jacob and then Jacob blessed Joseph's younger son. Throughout the Bible I see that the people who were the least were often given great jobs to do. God looks at the heart not the outward appearances while we see the outward appearances of a person and make decisions based on that. The heart is where the true person is found. As I think on this I see that we either light our heart with integrity or with the secrete sins we choose. I learn that we are known by our fruit are we bearing good fruit or bad fruit in our lives. If we are bearing good fruit we will be kind, patient, caring, hard working etc. If we are bearing bad fruit then we bear things like lying, stealing, etc. I prefer choosing to live in the light as much as I am aware and able. Today I understand the light much better because the Bible and the Holy Spirit are teaching to live in the light. Sometimes I do not realize I am in sin but when I am convicted about it I ask God to teach me to walk away from that sin. I also ask God to show me the sin I have in my life and then to teach me to walk away from that sin. I find a lot of freedom when I am not entrenched in sin like I was at one time in my life. When I discover that I am sinning these days I am grateful because I feel free to repent and then I am taught to walk away from the sin. When the sin is being cleansed from me I also am learning that God does not want me to beat myself up over it but to live in freedom of it. Living in the light is not a one time effort but a day to day growing and learning in the Lord and I am grateful that Jesus gave His life so I can draw closer to God. May God bless you and keep you make His face shine on you. Love Janet