We all have been there at one point or another in our spiritual walk where we hear someone who we all well respected committed a sin they should have known better on. We all gasp upon it. Then thoughts of how they he/she have done that, or I don't understand, or even worse the thoughts of backsliding come in as you feel what's the point after hearing such news. Let's face it, it's not a nice feeling watching someone ministry get effected by the ugliness of sins disguises.
Yet before we are so quick to put our mouths on such issues, here is something that Paul states:
1 Corinthians 11:31
For if we judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
Hmmmmm...if we judge ourselves!!! We are so quick to tell others not to judge us, but are we really judging ourselves. I don't know about you but this scripture is humbling to me. See once you start to judge yourself, the Holy Spirit starts to show you things you may not want to see. For example, He showed me at times how I express weak faith. This was me -_-
The truth is if God was to come in our homes tonight, what would He see in our spiritual closet? Would He see complaining, hidden anger, bitterness, lying, or self-gratification? Hmmmmm. Would He really see us walking after the spirit so we don't fulfill the lust of the flesh? Hmmmmm. Like I said, judging yourself makes you humble.
Mark 14:38
Keep wake and watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit is truly ready, but the flesh is weak.
See if we are not careful flesh could cause us to go straight to hell. Saints, we got to have relationship from our hearts...not our minds...our hearts. Let us remember to pray one for another! As Paul also reminds us:
1 Corinthians 9:27
But I keep my body and bring it under subjection: lest by any means when I have preached to others, I myself become a castaway.
Stay humble!
