28 April 2008
A Fatal Dissconnect - Final
Alright, let’s wrap this thing up.
For those of you just catching up, go here for part one and here for part two before you read on.
All caught up?
Good.
So people sometimes miss it.
So things don’t always gel.
There’s not always a “connect.”
Big deal.
Well, actually it is a huge deal. As the series title indicates, it’s a fatal disconnect, not merely a ‘critical’ disconnect, or a ‘serious’ disconnect. This connection is either made, or you don’t make it.
Period.
Have you figured out what the connection is yet?
Well, sense this is the final post I’ll cut to the chase. The connection that must be made is with me and my sin. Me and my ‘stuff…’
‘baggage,’
‘crapola,’
jealousy, anger, hatred, gossip, envy, slander, laziness, lying, plotting, hurting…
Pretty long list really, but I’m sure everyone can find themselves in there somewhere. If you can’t—you’re fatally disconnected. The following types are in the most danger of that ‘disconnect becoming spiritually fatal…
- blame gamers
- perfect people
- victims
- The entitlement crowd
- The ‘Not Fair’ crowd
- Loners
In short, anyone and everyone who has become adept at explaining away any connection between themselves and the junk in their lives.
You don’t have to be responsible for all of it.
But you have to be responsible for some of it.
Otherwise there is a fatal disconnect. You won’t be able to repent. Therefore you won’t turn form your sin. In fact, you probably won’t even use the word, ‘sin.’ And, worst of all…
You will never connect with God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.
That’s fatal.
My favorite verse…Titus 3:5…Not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but accoriding to His mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost…(KJV) I thought since, we were talking about Great Hymns of the Faith yesterday, I’d kick it a little KJV version on that verse today.
But what is that verse saying…it’s saying, I think, what Rob is saying here…we all have junk or sin in our lives and the only way we are able to connect with God is through Jesus…The fatal part of that lack of connection is hell.
There was only one who was perfect…Jesus. The fact that we have trials and tribulations or even thorns of the flesh…is just a reminder that we are human…and if we are human we NEED God…the only way to God is through his son Jesus…hence as the Titus 3:5 says…
he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, (NIV).
We all NEED God, daily…w/out him we are screwed! Fatally screwed…it’s tough to hear, but it is the truth…