WEARYING
GOD WITH SIN Tuesday January
19, 2016
Text:
Isaiah 43:22 – 28 Memory
verse: v 24
A sacrifice required both giving up a
valuable animal and pleading with God for forgiveness. But the people presented
God with sins instead of sacrifices (43:24). This ironic picture shows the
depths to which Israel had sunk that they commit their sin in the presence of
God. What do you present to God; your sins or a plea for His forgiveness?
Despite all these atrocities, God assures His people of forgiveness. For God,
when He forgives our sins, He totally forgets them (43:25). We never have to
fear that He will remind us of them later. Because God forgives our sins, we
need to forgive others. Can anyone justify himself before God? Yet, out of
mercy He calls on us to dialogue with Him so we may be acquitted if found not
guilty (43:26 compare 1:18).
How do we weary God with sin? When we
come before Him often and refuse to repent of our sins or when we know we are
living in sin and instead of repenting, we glory in them. These are some of the
ways we weary God with our sins. Can you mention some other ways we weary God
with our sins? Wearying God with our sins will definitely attract some
unbearable consequences (43:28 compare Rom. 6:23). God exposed them to contempt
and destruction and ours won’t be an exemption except we repent. Do you weary God
with your sins?
Food
for Thought:
Malachi 2:17
Prayer: God, grant me a broken and contrite heart for my sins so I will repent of them and not to weary you with them any longer in Jesus name.
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