Scenario for you:

Stacy became a born again Christian at age 20.  She was on fire!  She read the Word of God daily and craved Jesus with her whole heart.  As the years went by, however, the flame started to die out.  Stacy fell more in love with the world and more out of love with Jesus.  She liked to go to parties, was a little afraid of turning 30 and was wondering where her younger years had gone.  She decided she had better start living before time slipped by.  She hooked up with this guy and fell in love, but they decided to live together instead of get married.  Now, at age 34, she is still living with the same guy and has had 2 children by him.  They do some drugs on the side, but it’s just a little cocaine once in a while to take the edge off a busy work week.  They attend church where she opens her Bible and tries to remember if the Book of James is in the Old or New Testament.  Stacy is quite the gossip at her workplace as well.  She has turned into this bitter woman who picks on the tender and meek to make her life seem a little better.  She is nice to your face, but as soon as you walk away she is the first to say the meanest things.  When asked about her religion she says that she is a Christian and people reply, “Wow, I would have never guessed that.”  That is usually the end of the religion conversation, as Stacy has no more to add.  Stacy tries to remember to say her prayers every night, where she asks forgiveness for all of her sins, and then the next day is right back doing the same thing.  There is no overcoming.  There is living in sin day after day after day.  But we are all sinners, right?

 

Now…….has Stacy lost her salvation?  If the Lord came in the middle of Stacy’s snort of cocaine with all of her friends around, would she go?  If she overdosed on cocaine and died and was immediately at the judgment seat of Christ, would He say…..Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. Matt. 25:21

 

I am not going to judge Stacy or her life.  All I want to know is “Where do you draw the line?”  It could be that since she accepted the Lord as her personal Savior when she was 20, and her name was written in the Lamb’s Book of Life that it is still there.  She would go to heaven and be justly rewarded for her life on earth.  We all will be justly rewarded.  Or………..it could also be that her living in sin turned her into a lukewarm believer  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.  Rev. 3:16 

 

So Doves, what do you think?  Me?……..I think it’s very important that we live for Christ everyday and do what we can to be overcomers.  You have two choices.  You can rule sin or you can let sin rule you.  Peggy Mc. told me that once.  Not a very difficult choice, but that’s only my opinion.  It’s hard work.  I battle everyday to overcome sin, but in the long run it will all be worth it.  With the rapture close at hand, being overcomers should be our number one priority. 

My name is Kelly and I approve this message.         

                                                                                

Watching and Waiting,                                                            

Kelly