I got SLAPPED in the face today.

I read another “DANG” verse in the Bible.  You might not like it either…

Luke 3:8 “Prove by the way you live that you have really turned from your sins and turned to God.”

The big question God is asking me today: how am I proving that I have turn from sin and turned to God?

This morning I deleted more than a few female friends from Facebook just because I don’t want their to be a hint, not even a temptation, for me to go ‘looking at their profiles’ (it’s called LUST, and God hates it).  I had to get really honest- that I was leaving that door open just enough for Satan to drive a wedge in.  NOT WORTH IT.  It’s just one of the ways that I’m proving that I hate sin and love God.

I’ve started to give to the poor (verse 11 actually talks about that one).  The actual poor.  Those who need water and food and clothes and Jesus.  It’s just one of the ways that I’m proving that I hate sin and love God.

I read and pray daily, meet with an accountability partner weekly, even though it’s RARELY convenient for me to do either!  It’s just one of the ways that I’m proving that I hate sin and love God.

Have you REALLY turned from your sins?  Have you REALLY turned to God?  Seriously, stop and actually be honest- what would Jesus actually say if He looked at your life? I suspect that many of us would give ourselves passing grades, not realizing how BLIND we are to what really matters.

Most of the time, we act like we don’t even care.

You name yours…

…Addicted to masturbating

…Always looking at porn

…Flirting with a dozen different girls

…Being absolutely addicted to video games, movies, or the internet

…Cutting corners and short-changing our integrity, being a little less than honest

…Questionable morals

…Lazy, apathetic, unwilling to change and grow

…Self-centred, egotistical,

…Having our dream as our idol, our goals as our gods.

…Living like we are the only thing that matters in life.

Luke 3 is talking about God separating the wheat from the chaff.  The diamonds from the dirt.  The saved from the unsaved.  AM I GOING TO MAKE THE CUT???

We have a major choice to make dudes- you can either reject God, live comfortably, and keep on sinning, or you can put your money where your mouth is and prove that you love God by the way you live.

So what is it going to be?  HOW is it going to be?