July 15, 2021
Take Responsibility
Beloved one if you want to be free the first step in being free is to Recognize you have and issue. The second step is to take Responsibility for your actions. Stop blaming others! Once you have agreed with your thoughts you Recognize you are now participating with sin. It doesn’t matter if someone defiled you, whether it was your sin, or whether you inherited it. Once you agree with sinful thoughts, you become one with it! Take Responsibility and deal with the sin. Jesus said, ‘you must not commit adultery.’ Anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Mathew 5:27-32)
Let’s look at King David, who got a woman pregnant while she was still married to someone else. Then he arranged to have her husband killed. Yet God still called him a man after His own heart. There is hope! Look what happened when Nathan the prophet confronted King David about his sin, he immediately went to God directly in prayer. He admitted his guilt and Recognized his sin. He said, ‘Against You, and You alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in Your sight. You will be proved right in what You say, and Your judgment against me is just. (Psalms 51:4)
Most of us Recognize the sin in our lives, but what are you doing about it? If you are a Christian who has participated with sin, you can be cleansed and sanctified. It’s guilt that tells you, ‘you are going to pay for past sins.’ You do not have to live in the past, stuck! David set the example for us, repent, and move forward! When you discern the difference between clean and unclean you Recognize. David said, ‘I For I Recognizemy rebellion; it haunts me day and night. Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just. (Psalms 51:3-4)
King David Recognized his sin once he was confronted with what he had done. He had not been honest, so God sent a prophet to confront him. The Spirit of God was there to convict him. He had a choice the same as you have a choice, Recognize and take Responsibility for your sin. The Bible says, ‘David was perfect in all his ways except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. (1 Kings 15:5) It doesn’t say Bathsheba was the problem. It says David had a sin against Uriah, because he took something that didn’t belong to him (Bathsheba) and tried to cover it up! Once it was brought to light King David Recognized his sin and took Responsibility with God for his sin. Take Responsibility and don’t try to get out of it!
The difference between King David and King Saul is amazing. David went directly to God in his sin and repented making peace with God. When Saul was confronted with his sin by Samuel the prophet he said to him, pray to your God for me. (1 Samuel 15:30) You must go to God directly, no one else can go to God for you. God wants you to take Responsibility for what you Recognize within yourself. We are being changed from glory to glory into the image of Christ. (2 Corinthians 3:18) Create in us a clean heart, oh God – renew a right spirit within me. (Psalms 51:10) It’s a process!
If you have an uncontrolled anger or rage issue it is not to God’s glory, it is sin. Do not carry this anger past sundown. (Ephesians 4:26) Why? When you allow sin to stay in you past sundown it will become ingrained in you and become part of your nature and spirit by morning. The last event of your anger is repeated seven times during the night and becomes part of you. God wants you to deal with things daily. I want to say, if you have uncontrolled anger or rage issue with your spouse and/or children, you are destroying them and your relationship. That is abuse and you need to Recognize you have an issue, take Responsibility and get help, (you need deliverance and healing) before you destroy their future and yours! Repent! I know firsthand from previous relationships. Let me make this clear, the abuse was from Previous Relationships, that means the relationships ended. God hates divorce, but He also hates abuse. Never stay in an abusive relationship where there is anger and uncontrolled rage. And for goodness’ sake, don’t tolerate your children being abused. You are their parent for a reason, protect them! God is not in an abusive relationship. Get help! Today is the day of salvation! (2 Corinthians 6:2)
