The Morning After
Well it's all over. I survived my worship filled Sunday. I'm feeling quite pooped today, the tips of my chording fingers are sore, and my calves ache from the "dancing" I do while standing in place in front of the mic. But it was worth it. Days like that remind me that computer science isn't my dream. After I failed out of Aerospace I took a serious look into become a worship pastor. I had considered going into a music major and then going to Bible college to get what I needed to enter into ministry. But it just didn't happen. Worship pastors aren't a recognized position around here yet. If I did that it would have to be youth/worship which is fine by me. But for now I need to do worship as a side job/hobby. And I need to get my relationship with Him healthy again. That was definitely something I struggled with while leading. Worshiping wasn't something I was able to do when I was alone. So I felt like a hypocrite - living a double life. But despite that God still chooses to use me on days like yesterday and give me another taste of what He's like.
Pastor Phil is talking about sin and temptation while he's here and one of the things he said in the morning service struck me. Each sin in an offense against God. It's a law that was broken and a price must be paid to nullify that sin. Well what if you were able to sin just three times a day? That's pretty good isn't it? I'd be a really good person if I only offended God three times a day. And well good people go to heaven.... don't they? The thing is the penalty of those sins still has to be paid for and they quickly add up. Say you live for 70 years. Let's tally up your bill: 70 years x 365.25 days per year x 3 sins per day equals around 76,700 sins. Yikes! Could you imagine standing in front of a judge in a court of law with a list of wrong doings that long? I mean I hope I never have to stand in front of a judge at all, not even for a speeding ticket. Well one day we will all have to stand before God, the Judge of where you get to spend eternity, and our lists of sins will be much much longer. How would you even begin to defend yourself? I don't know about you but I'd fall down on my knees and beg for mercy. Amazingly enough that's exactly when Christ comes forward and says He'll pay the price for those sins. But there's one last thing you have to do before the judgement is final - you have to accept that you can't pay off that debt on your own and accept Christ's sacrifice. Then you get to spend the rest of eternity with God and all the sinners who've been forgiven. Can I get a w00t? :D
Matthew.
Pastor Phil is talking about sin and temptation while he's here and one of the things he said in the morning service struck me. Each sin in an offense against God. It's a law that was broken and a price must be paid to nullify that sin. Well what if you were able to sin just three times a day? That's pretty good isn't it? I'd be a really good person if I only offended God three times a day. And well good people go to heaven.... don't they? The thing is the penalty of those sins still has to be paid for and they quickly add up. Say you live for 70 years. Let's tally up your bill: 70 years x 365.25 days per year x 3 sins per day equals around 76,700 sins. Yikes! Could you imagine standing in front of a judge in a court of law with a list of wrong doings that long? I mean I hope I never have to stand in front of a judge at all, not even for a speeding ticket. Well one day we will all have to stand before God, the Judge of where you get to spend eternity, and our lists of sins will be much much longer. How would you even begin to defend yourself? I don't know about you but I'd fall down on my knees and beg for mercy. Amazingly enough that's exactly when Christ comes forward and says He'll pay the price for those sins. But there's one last thing you have to do before the judgement is final - you have to accept that you can't pay off that debt on your own and accept Christ's sacrifice. Then you get to spend the rest of eternity with God and all the sinners who've been forgiven. Can I get a w00t? :D
Matthew.
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