BUSTED, BUSTED, BUSTED!

We carry so many habits from our childhood with us don’t we? We often go where everyone told us not to go and we often do what everyone said not to do. And then when we’ve “gone there” and “done that” we’re left looking around to see if anyone saw us? The question looms in our minds…. “Did I get away with it?” Yes, maybe you did but only for the moment, for although human eyes miss so many things the eyes of God see all. So that makes you and I …..BUSTED, BUSTED, BUSTED!

“One day after Moses had grown up he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.” Exodus 2:11-12

Wrong is wrong no matter who sees and who doesn’t. I read a definition of character once and I thought it was right on. It defined character as this: Character is who you are in the dark! Our character is formed inside of us and expressed by our values, beliefs and priorities which then are shown outwardly by the way we handle ourselves in our day to day lives. There were many times in the Gospels that we saw Jesus by Himself. He was alone on the mountain facing the devils temptations (Matt 4) and in the garden prior to His arrest (Matt 26). In His moments by Himself, Jesus still maintained His character and sinless life. How easily it would have been to give into the devil on the mountaintop, how easily it would have been to deny His destiny in the garden, after all no one was there, no one would know, right? Wrong, God the Father would know what Jesus did and God the Father, who sees and knows all, knows our hidden sins.
Sometimes we make the mistake of believing that we can somehow get away with our sin, that if no one sees it there’s no crime. Remember the old question, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one’s there to hear it, does it make a sound?” Some of us do things with the same question looming in the background, “if no one saw me do it, where’s the harm?” We need to understand that one day we will give account for all our sins. We need to know that we don’t leave sin behind; it becomes a part of us when it becomes un-confessed sin. Hidden sin, un-confessed sin can eventually drown out the Holy Spirits workings in our life. Sin wraps us up and eventually paralyzes us (Hebrews 12:1).
But when we willingly present our sins to God and confess our mistakes, God forgives us and Christ heals the wounds caused by our sin. “If we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong.” 1 John 1:9
So let us not continue to go through our lives being “BUSTED” but let us go forward being “FILLED” by God’s forgiveness and healing.
Pastor Seth <><