A good friend recently challenged me that I have been thinking too highly of my sin. She said that I tend to think and act like God will not use me or accomplish divine purposes through me unless I always have my "A" game on. She was not diminshing the danger of sin. Instead, she was trying to get me to realize the power of God's forgiveness, grace and mercy.
God is not limited by my failures. He can still work through them to accomplish His purposes. God knows when I don't have time to pray 1 hour before going to minister. It's not like He will penalize me that day. Actually, walking in God's power and anointing is not a matter of God paying me back for private prayer time as much as a
I have as much authority and power in Christ at any moment as I take hold of by faith. Like any relationship, my journey with God is based on culmulative interactions and experiences. Sure, if I ignore God repeatedly or continue living a life of sin, God's power and presence will diminish in my life. But that doesn't mean that God will refuse to work through me just because I had to work late and did not have time that day to spend hours in spiritual preparation before ministering in some way.
I am not developing a rationalization to ignore preparation. No, I am simply refusing to become a slave to it. I am not belittling perfection. I am simply refusing to be crushed by the weight of it.
God is in the business of redeeming man's failures. The real question for me is will I have the faith to trust God to work despite my sin, failures and insufficiencies. All things are possible for those how belive. That includes hitting a grand slam when you haven't had much time in the batting cages to practice. Ultimately, our ability to honor God in our lives is not about our perfection. It is about God's perfect character imparted to us by faith.
