Taking Inventory

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November 20, 2012

"Taking Inventory"

Scripture Reading:
Colossians 3:5 (HCSB)  Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust,  evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

Devotional Reading:

Our military is outstanding at taking inventory or rather inspections. . . and inspections were no fun.  Everything had to be counted and accounted for:  beans, bullets, band-aids; everything.  The work was tedious.  Time-consuming.  All your gear and uniforms had to be showroom ready, exacting.  I think of this dreaded process every time I hear the work “inventory.”  But what about taking an inventory of your life”  have you ever gotten still and quiet for the purpose of examining your life, letting God shine His holy light into your very heart?  It’s not everyone who can be bold and adventuresome enough, faithful and honest enough, to take a searching and fearless moral inventory of his or her life.  A person’s willingness to do so is an indicator of that willingness to grow.  If you believe you are ready to blast out of comfortable Christianity, to hear the sound of the trumpet in the morning, to begin to walk in a new kind of life that you’ve never known before, let me encourage you to take inventory.  Begin with the classical seven deadly sins.  Evaluate your victories and failures with regard to each, making notes as you go through them thoughtfully and thoroughly.  The sins I’m referring to are these:  Slothfulness or laziness.  Gluttony.  Greed.  Lust.  Envy.  Anger.  And the deadliest sin of all” Pride.  How about it?  Are you ready for an IG (inspecting General)inspection?

Keep the Son in your eyes,

Pastor Ben J Lahay

Galatians 2:20