warning

You know, it's interesting what the Lord puts on my mind when I am at the DGD (for those who are new that is the Diabetes and Glandular Disease Clinic)...for my check-up...maybe it was because of the fact that I hadn't done as much for my health as I should, or for another reason, but the following verse came to mind:

James 4:17 (Complete Jewish Bible) "So then, anyone who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it is committing a sin".

So often, we hear about the things that we should not be doing that we forget that there are things that we ARE supposed to be doing. God plainly commands us through His word with commandment after commandment of how we are to be as believers...and yet for whatever reason we choose NOT to do them? How crazy is that?

And lest we think that it is "no big deal" comes this verse that comes directly from the mouth of God...that if we fail to do His commandments, it is SIN! Samuel, when he confronted Saul, said the same thing:

1 Samuel 15:22b-23a (Complete Jewish Bible): "Surely obeying is better than sacrifice, and heeding orders than the fat of rams. For rebellion (failing to obey) is like the sin of sorcery (some translations may have "witchcraft") and stubborness (wanting to do things our way) like the crime of idolatry." (Side note: I love the way in the CJB the word sin is rendered "crime" because when we do something against the Lord isn't it like committing a crime, and crime has to be punished...)

So before we start condeming others for their sins of commission, let's make sure that we aren't committing the crimes of omission.....that is why Paul tells us that before we take of the body and blood of the Lord, "let a person examine (in the Greek, the meaning was "thoroughly examine")  himself first" (1 Corninthians 11:28).