MATTHEW 18

Remember when we were a child? Mom or dad would tell us something and we would accept it as fact? If they said not to do something, we didn’t do it, because we trusted them. If they said it was wrong it was wrong. If they said it was right, it was right. If they said it was good, it was good. Do you remember those days? Then, remember we became a teenager and all of a sudden, our parents don’t know anything. All of a sudden nothing they said made sense. If they told us to do something, we complained and moaned and made excuses not to do it. If they told us not to do something, we made a big deal out of how they’re “unfair”. We wanted what we want without being held accountable for anything. And then we became adults. And now our parents are “old fashioned”. We know better than the people who raised us. We know how to do things, even though they went through it. “Times have changed”, we tell them. Now we know how to do things better than the people who put blood, sweat and tears into raising us.

And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
(Matthew 18:2-4)

The same can be said about our relationship with God. When we first start our walk, we are like babies in the Lord. We obey everything his word says. We don’t question anything. We accept his correction as well as his blessings. But then we get complacent. We go through a “teenager” phase with the Lord. All of a sudden what God’s word says is wrong, is just “unfair”. We find every possible way to justify our sin. We want and want and want from God, without having to be accountable for what he wants from us. We become lazy and choose not to learn God’s word and then use the excuse that “nobody understands the Bible”. And then we fall right into the “adult” phase. “The Bible is old fashioned, it doesn’t account for our times”, is our poor excuse. Now we think we know better than the Almighty Father who was, is and is to come. “A little drink never hurt anybody”, even though the Bible says “strong drink is a mocker”. “It’s okay if I sleep with my boy/girlfriend if we love each other”, even though the Bible says “do not burn with lust”. And my favorite one, “it’s okay if I hang out with my worldly friends, after all I am sharing the word of God with them”. Is that so? So, when God calls “a friend of the world an enemy of God”, that’s okay with you? When he says “I will spit you out of my mouth”, you can accept that? When he looks at you and says, “depart from me you worker of iniquity I never knew you”, that’s going to work for you? Well, of course it is, because after all, you know better than God don’t you? No, you don’t and you’re an idiot if you think you do. And all you idiots using the excuse “I’m just a sinner saved by grace” grow the heck up. You WERE a sinner, but when you accepted Jesus, you made an agreement that you would leave your old life behind. And the Bible says, “if you return to your old sin, there will be no forgiveness for you”. Don’t you think it would have been easier if you would have just accepted God’s word as a child and never doubted or strayed from it? I think it would. But, I’m just a prophet of God, who’s been there, done that, and thank God every day he changed me.