| Oh, how God guards His children
I have a little story that might be an encouragement to some of you that happened over this weekend.
I had a job scheduled on saturday to work at a convention center setting up various things. It was scheduled from 7am-8pm. The few days before it I had worked really hard and I was extremely sore, and I did not feel like working at all. So I called them up at about 6:30am, and I told them I was not coming in, then I lied to them, and made up a reason. I am not sure why I did, it came out as a spur of the moment thing.
From 2 minutes after that phone call throughout the rest of the day, I felt like I had murdered somebody. Crying and weeping over it, asking the Lord to forgive me, and absolutely abhorring myself for it. Today, I am going to go back to her and tell her that I lied and ask for her forgiveness.
I am so amazed that these things I used to be able to do at liberty and maybe give 5 minutes of thought to, but then just forget about it. I keep thinking of Hebrews 12 and how God treats us as children and chastises us when we do wrong, and in verse 11 it says, "For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it." After being so broken over it, I am further led to praise and adore my Father in heaven because I know it is Him who makes me feel this way, even over such a 'little white lie'.
Oh, dear beloved, praise the Lord for His discipline and for making us sensitive to sin, that all of us be made more like Christ, to the praise of His great name!
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Sometimes, when I see some of the worst characters in the street, I feel as if my heart must burst forth in tears of gratitude that God has never let me act as they have done! I have thought, "If God had left me alone, and had not touched me by His grace, what a great sinner I would have been!" - Charles Spurgeon
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