~Sin in the Camp~ ( Part III)

…………….You cannot stand before your enemies until you have removed the things under the ban from your midst." (JOSHUA 7:13b)

~-I do not like to talk about myself, but I can only speak to what I know. I don’t take this short personal story as any glory for myself. It’s just an example and what God can do.-~

 ~Making it Right~ ~A Personal Story~

In 1977, 29 years ago I was leaving work from the company parking lot and had an accident, I backed into a car. You say, so what, that happens every day. What was so unusual about this accident was that I left the parking lot without letting the owner know what I had done. Over the years I thought about it a time or two. One reason I tell you this, it shows the way your heart can be hardened over the years and then softened by God when under conviction. Then about a couple of years ago I started getting convicted by the Holy Spirit about this accident. I thought about it more and more over the past couple of years. Then when I started thinking about putting together a sermon on this subject, every time I did, I couldn’t read about it or start writing the sermon because of the guilt. I finally got so much under conviction that I had to settle it with the owner of that car, which, by the way, lives out of town now. I have done a lot of things a lot worst than this, but God convicted me of this one sin. I don’t know what else to call it but, sin. I did it and I wanted to repent and make it right with the owner of the vehicle I had backed into.

One night a month or two ago I got on the internet and as God would have it there was only one person in that town with his name. So I couldn’t use that for an excuse anymore not to call him. I picked up the phone and dialed the number. All the time hoping that there would be no answer. (Can anyone relate to this?) As God would have it, that person answered the phone. I explained to him what I had done and wanted to make it right with him. He graciously accepted by apology and said I owed him nothing.

There was a weight of guilt that was lifted off me. Only by the Blood of Jesus was this possible; a cleansing of the Soul, through repentance for someone that was wronged.

If you expect to reap a harvest, you sow to yourselves the right spiritual seed. So many Christians today, are sowing things in their life that are destructive and unprofitable.

God doesn’t use people who think they have it all together. He uses people who know that without Him, they’d be lost. Which one are you?

Get rid of that guilt, clean out your camp and be made whole again in the name of Jesus Christ.

Will be continued tomorrow, see “Sin in the Camp,” part IV

Brother Dewey E. Fox