A Hard Pill To Swallow 3/27/2019

Good Morning World!

Today's Coffee is Door County Highlander Grog. My heart is consumed in prayer for friends and family today. Prayer is the answer to what is on my heart.

I remember back into my childhood being ill a few times and it seemed that every doctor prescribed liquid medicine for children. I remember Mr. Mattioli the pharmacist telling me that the medicine would taste good. Whatever he put in the medicine to mask the vile taste did not work, It tasted terrible and was hard to swallow. He tried, but the technology of the early 1960s was not what it is today.

Now my friends, I can read through my Bible and find and quote many passages of love, hope and encouragement. But I can also find those passages that are heard to swallow. They are the ones that convict us of sin or call us to change. Sometimes we read them and pretend they don't apply to us. Many, do not want to digest the passages and be confronted with their sin. We wish the message was sugar coated and did not make our sin sound so ugly. But, God doesn't really sugar coat things. He does not send the sin to hell but he sends the un-redeemed sinner to hell. God is serious about sin and He calls it what it is.

Galatians 5:19-26 New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, ²¹ envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. ²⁴ And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another

Once we realize sin is sin and it is poison, the redemption Gospel Of Jesus Christ becomes sweetness to the ears.

So today if you sin, call it what it is, poison to the heart and soul. Don't excuse it as a "slip up, a little indiscretion , a white lie, or poor judgement". Get serious about it.

Have a great day. Love to all.

Marty