Crusaders Ministries Blog

Most Christians are concerned about our reputation in the eyes of the public and not God. We are refusing to reveal the skeletons of sins we are hiding in our cupboards, because it feels right and good that no one sees those ugly skeletons. In the sight of men, we are receiving all the praise and exultation. But at the corners of our room, where no one can see us, we are dying slowly with the strong odour of the skeletons of irresponsibility, unforgiveness, quick-temperedness, lust, fornication, lesbianism, masturbation, adultery, homosexuality and other sexual immorality; bitterness, anger, jealousy, hatred, offenses, pride and arrogance, lies, impatience, hypocrisy, stubbornness, snobbishness, gossip and backbiting, rebelliousness and inaction which are in the cupboard. We are thinking of what people will do and say when we expose our ugly sinful lives, but we are not thinking of the grace and mercies that will flow from the throne of God unto us at the exposure of such sins. We are therefore losing the second chance to grasp the opportunities God has for us and the blessings that comes with it. We should be like Jonah, whose transparency about his sins not only gained him the forgiveness of God, but another chance to source His grace and blessings through obedience.