Don’t get too comfortable with sin

I have just heard that at one Pentecostal church, a choir member has been dismissed for theft.

She comes to the choir practice and as the others let their guard down, believing they are in a safe space, she goes into their bags… For someone who is not exactly poor and has a job, it is a clear case of ‘coming as you are’ to God and then refusing to change.

Madam came with her habit to God, but refused to surrender it even after years of salvation. What a shame. I remember when I first gave my life to Christ more than two decades ago, the transformation was so important to me and I held myself to the high standards I found in the church.

Whenever I turned up for fellowship after a long day of ‘falling’ and ‘falling’ some more, I would find the most discreet corner of the room to stay out of the pastor’s sight, because I was convinced he could see right through me.

Then on one such day, as I was hiding in the back, the pastor called me out to the front and proceeded to declare a powerful prophecy upon my life, not mentioning any of my flaws.

That is the day I discovered the magnitude of God’s grace. Suffice to say, everything the Lord said about me that day through my pastor, has come to pass. But instead of becoming comfortable in sin – after all, I had seen His grace – I have since walked a journey of constantly asking God for the grace not to take His grace for granted.

Try walking with that prayer too, because we can never be completely without sin. When we start taking God’s grace for granted, we become too comfortable in our sin, like the sister who was robbing others right inside the sanctuary.

And the day God says enough is enough comes without warning; my friend, you will face the greatest humiliation of your life and you may even lose everything you worked so hard for – if not your life.

Ask the brothers and sisters in Christ who have been caught pants down and had their images splashed on tabloid covers! Continue playing with the grace and see…