I’ve overheard many listeners later comment among themselves, “Maybe he’s preaching about himself, or that was meant for Bro. or Sis. So and So….”.

But, I ask this question, “How many times during any given day does the Lord prompt you to say a kind word, whisper a prayer about something or for someone in need that was laid on your heart, call and invite someone you know to church, volunteer for certain needed positions or help out at church, give a little extra in the offering plate at the prompting of the Spirit…but we just shrug it off or get pre-occupied with the cares of this life?”

My Bible tells me in James 4:17 (NIV)

“If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.”

As our church goes through this trying time of replacing our pastor, it is up to ALL of our church family to pull together and work in UNITY through the Spirit of God. To continually pray and seek His face, not only for ourselves but for each other. This is what will foster love for one another, love that will smother out bitterness and strife.

My prayer today is for God to show me, as well as you, what sin lies in my life that I can plunge beneath the crimson flow and wash it whiter than snow.

“What Sin, Oh God……??!!”