Big weather brings big storms.
The most violent of these fling lightning to the ground and pelt us with rain and hail.
It’s like unrepentant sin. The black clouds hover in the distance, and for a time, the sun still shines. We can bask in its brightness, and everything seems okay.
Then the shadow of destruction darkens our brow, and a chill runs down our spine. We can smell it. The storm is on the way.
There’s something else a storm can do. The pressure differential can cause our mood to vacillate wildly. Sunshine makes us happy, but the stormy skies can sink us into depression with no more than the flick of a switch, er, cloud across the sky.
That’s like sin. It shakes us and pelts us with rain and hail. When it’s unrepentant, it causes depression and sadness.
Proverbs 4:23 tells us to guard our heart from sin, for it will block our source of our existence and happiness.
“Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.”
Psalm 32:3-5 reveals the only way to clear the storm of sin from our skies. We must confess to the Lord and let him flood our life with the blue skies of forgiveness.
“For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,’ and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.”
There is a way to dodge the weather. We need to tie in to the weather forecast machine. We have one of those for our spiritual life, also. It’s the Bible, and it tells us what we really need to know.
If we want to be happy, we can never allow sin along for the ride.
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