While taking in a little Spurgeon this morning I came across Mark's account of Peter's denial of Christ.
Mark 14:72
And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.
After reading this I came to the conclusion that many of us are simply not broken enough over our sins. I can recall the days where I have stood in arrogance and perhaps even defiance that I would never deny my Lord only to follow the ways of sin over Him moments or hours later. Forgive me oh Lord.
I can recall countless faces in various church fellowships who would rather sit in defiance of conviction and paint themselves to be above reproach instead of reckoning with and acknowledging their own sin.
How many will of us will sit in pride and arrogance and pronounce that we will never deny our Lord only to be forced later to chew and swallow the thorny briers of sin. When the Spirit of God brings forth our sin from the depths of our minds and we stand with it face to face, how is it then that we do not also "break down and weep". Is this not blasphemy, to pretend our way to righteousness and to claim our good deeds in Christ to be of ourselves and not of Him?
As the repenting apostle wept, did this not bring a restoration to his soul of the teachings and work of the Lord? Why then do not more of us weep over our sin? Why are not more of us broken and brought unto this humiliating place of repentance?
Lord, I pray that your Spirit would be upon us like the rod of Moses upon the rock.
Numbers 20:10-13
10 Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?” 11 And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock. 12 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.” 13 These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel quarreled with the Lord, and through them he showed himself holy.
Strike us and bring forth water.
Until He Return,
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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very seldom am i truly broken. my brokeness is often substituted with doubt. doubt of salvation at all. maybe this is a form of brokeness, just without the tears. it is comfort that maybe that in itself is the conviction of a divine Spirit present in my soul. but, recently i was broken...with the tears. i stopped to help a couple guys with a flat tire. i failed miserably at a half-hearted witness. as i got down the road, i realized more and more my failure and almost couldn't drive. i don't say this to sound pious but to give an experience with brokeness, albeit rare.
it's hard to break something that won't bend.
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