Tues Inspiration

Morning Inspiration with Pastor Merritt

Once you trust Jesus Christ as your Savior and become a Christ-follower you enter into a permanent relationship with God. It is one that is eternal and unending, but your fellowship with God can be interrupted and hindered. You can still see God but not clearly.

There is only one thing that blurs our spiritual vision and that is sin. There are two kinds of sin that make God unhappy- 1) Unforgiven sin; 2) Unconfessed sin. One is a problem for the unbeliever. The second is a problem for the believer.

An unbeliever and by that I mean someone who has never trusted Christ as their Savior cannot have a relationship with God, because of unforgiven sin. It is true that Jesus Christ came to provide forgiveness by His death on the cross, but it is only when we receive (we trust Christ as our Savior) and repent of our sinfulness that we receive God’s forgiveness. It is at that moment that we enter into a relationship with God.

An unbeliever cannot have a relationship with God, because of unforgiven sin. A believer cannot have fellowship with God if there is unconfessed sin. Are you a follower of Jesus Christ, but you know you are know that you are spiritually impaired because you can’t see God clearly? One question can determine the answer- - “Is there any known unconfessed sin in my life?”

The psalmist wrote in Psalm 66:17-18,

“I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue . If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.” (Psalm 66:17-18)

The psalmist was talking about how he was praying to God and praising God and yet, he said, “If there were sin in my life that I treasured, sin in my life that I cherished, sin in my life I would not let go of the Lord would not have listened.” Unconfessed sin will keep you from being “up close & personal” with God.