Sin Sucks!

This is going to be one of THOSE posts. 
 I'm fired up.  So....if you are not in the mood for a heart cry, and a hell, fire and brimstone post......just hit the little red x in the right hand corner.  
Come back tomorrow I will post some cute pictures of my cute kids.  

Daniel 1:8

English Standard Version (ESV)Daniel's Faithfulness

8 But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself

We were talking about Daniel in Bible study last night.  And we talked about the reason that Daniel wouldn't eat the king's food ......he did not want to be conformed to the ways of culture that he was living in...even though he was a captive at the time.  He wanted to remain true to his God and NOT get comfortable with where he was living...even though he had no choice but to live there. 

Here is the New Testament version of that verse in Daniel:

Romans 12:2-3

English Standard Version (ESV)

2 Do not be conformed to this world,[a] but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

  Sin is a BLINDER. 

 If we get entrenched in it...it will deceive us and blind us, and we will be LOST. 

Lost people do not follow Jesus because they are

 BLIND AND LOST. 

  I have sin...we all have sin....but that doesn't mean we get comfortable with it and justify it, it means we go to God and ask Him to FORGIVE us, we REPENT.

**Repent means to change direction.  Turn from the sin and turn to God.**

We are in the LION'S DEN of our day and the only way God will protect us, is if we know who He is and we

 TRUST IN HIM to SAVE US.

Daniel 6:16, 21-22

English Standard Version (ESV)

16 Then the king commanded, and Daniel was brought and cast into the den of lions. The king declared[a] to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!”

21 Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever! 22 My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

We can not play in the lion's den like he is our pet kitty and

 THEN

 expect God to protect us when the lion does what he was made to do, and destroys us.

1 Peter 5:8-9

English Standard Version (ESV)

8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.

 We need to turn from our sin and follow JESUS, cling to the Cross not continue to hide behind the cross like a sneaky naughty kid, acting as if our

 FATHER 

doesn't know what is going on back there.

We can't use our "Christianity" as an excuse. 

We can't think our ticket to heaven is secure if we also think God is OK with our sin.

I can't think that God can wink at my sin, when He looks at His Son with the scars all over Him.
  It's not cute or funny or OK...it cost Him His Son's life. 
 Our sin is terrible and will destroy us. 

 No matter how "locked up" we think we have our ticket to heaven is...that does NOT give us the license to sin and grin about it.

There is a lot of counterfeit tickets out there. 

2 Peter 2:1-2

2 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.

Tomorrow I will post something sweet.

  ***God is good and He loves us

to death *literally*!! ****
         That  ^^^^^ statement

 is appropriate and true for this post and the sweet one I will post tomorrow.  

Today my heart is breaking!