Rust

Rust                                                                                         3/15/2020

Sin, anger, stress, impatience, rusts your soul, erodes your joy, your peace, your relationships, your journey and ultimately your purpose. Each sin, each, imperfection, each fleshly indulgence starts as a tiny, seemingly insignificant dew drop resting on your mind. You don't hardly notice it.

They usually don't come alone. While impatience is resting over here on your mind, restlessness and irritability are forming too. Minute dew drops that are so seemingly small. But the more of them you allow in, the longer you allow them to sit there, the more you get used to them. They build up into a pond, a lake… an ocean. Before you know it, they aren’t small dew drops anymore… they are waves in a storm.

Those drops become a part of you because you brought them to life, gave them a home, settled in with them. All the while, they erode the surface and burrow deep into your heart and soul.

Sin is a powerful thing and it comes in many tiny little fleshly morsels. But like rain, over time, before you know it, you have a rusted-out heart and the Grand Canyon for a soul.

You look in the mirror and wonder, "How did I get here?"

You let it in!! You didn't recognize the power it had when one drop of rain becomes two and four and more. You have to immediately wipe them away as soon as they land. You have to run for shelter before those dew drops turn into rain drops and rain drops followed by a storm.

Instead, we play there. We just think that one negative thought won't hurt. One justified moment of frustration won't make you a bad person. One angry reaction won't hurt, after all, we need to vent. In our wallowing mood, we might eventually say, "What does it matter? I am here now. Might as well have a drink or take a pill or porn or... " Pick your poison...because that is what it is.

A few drinks aren't a big deal. A pill or two to ease the pain. But before you know it, we are in a row boat to nowhere sinking deeper because we have let all that water in.

Listen, I totally get it. We all have real life frustrations and everything from a hang nail to death and suffering. It's easier to tell a friend than tell God. But in your darkest moments, you are usually not with people who can give you unconditional love and guidance. But God can.

Too many times, we rely on people who will wallow with us and not give us the hard truth. Only His truth and your submission can set you free. Friends are good, if they help you wipe away the pain with truth and love… if they keep you safe.

God. Truth. Goodness. They are the answer. They wipe away your fears and anxiety and give you hope. They keep you from drowning in a sea of self-made misery.