Revelation 3: 15-16 (The MESSAGE) "I know you inside and out, and find little to my liking. You're not cold, you're not hot--far better to be either cold or hot. You're stale. You're stagnant. You make me want to vomit."
I'll cut to the quick. A few days ago I was with a few people at a party I was not supposed to be with--which I knew beforehand. I got caught up in some "shiggidy" (in the words of "Huggy Lowdown" on The Tom Joiner Morning Show) that I really did not want to get involved with. I ended up going somewhere I had no business, putting me in an awkward predicament on so many levels. And while all this was going on "Souled Out", by Hezekiah Walker, played repeatedly through my head--LITERALLY!! It wasn't just playing; I felt my spirit asking me a question at the end of each verse. The song goes (if you aren't familiar with it): "I am souled out/ My mind is made up", then it continues "My heart is fixed/ My mind's made up/ No room, No vacancies, I'm all filled up/ His spirit lives in me/ That's the reason I'm souled out". Yet, throughout the time I was out I felt the Holy Spirit say [in cooperation with the song] "I am souled out" Are you really? "My mind is made up" Really? Now, it's not that I was out getting drunk, because I was not. I did not have sex with anyone. I was just compromising my witness by trying to fit where I knew I could not possibly fit. It was like trying to fit a circle-shaped peg into a triangle-shaped hole--it does not work!
I think my message is: get off the fence. Today, many of us are trying to play both sides of the field, grabbing the good from both sides, when that it not spiritually possible. I'm saved. I'm sanctified. I'm active in ministry. But--I messed up. I know I'm "souled out"; but I surely did not show it well this past weekend, but thank God for His grace, mercy, and forgiveness....
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1 comments:
Its ironic that you experienced this because I too (probably the same night) had felt conviction in a place I knew I should not have been. After hearing the holy spirit telling me to leave, I quickly got out of here. I know exactly what you went through. However, there was a time in my where I owned the part scene and now its all unfamiliar to me.
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