CONVICTION

Conviction...to reprove, convince, to expose....

Some of you know i have been working in my RV lot parking Bikes for Bike Week since last Friday. Well, God in His infinite wisdom has decided that this is not as He would have it. Today i told the owners i could not work for them parking bikes anymore because in my life, God comes first and i love Jesus more than life itself and the Holy Spirit has told me i cannot. i was basically in the enemy's camp working for him and had to go. The darkness was exposed, my heart was convicted.

i was parking bikes on Monday, and i had brought scripture to read, i was memorizing John 17:3 and reading 1 Coringthians 13 and John 14:21. As i was praying and parking, i started to feel very uncomfortable. The language, which i had tried to rebuke in others, was bothering me, the atmosphere was stirring in me an anxiousness. i walked around and tried to hear the Lord.

i had conversations with the folks around me, Pat an old Catholic, stuck in the dark traditions of it and his wife Dot, both using the Lords name in vain casually and equally. Scott, Jerry, Marie, Bill, Flo, JR, and various bikers and campers coming in and out. Then God revealed i did not need the money, God has provided for me a job that covers all my expenses and he has made my expenses fit into what i make. He is providing all i need and has since i left California. What was i doing here.

i thought it was ministry i was doing, but it really was not. i repented, i asked God to forgive me. i ask you all for your forgiveness also. God is good and is constantly and more quickly teaching me his way in my life. i am grateful to and humbled by a mighty God.

"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."
Ephesians 5:11

"And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou are rebuked of him."
Hebrews 12:5

"As many as i love, i rebuke and chasten, be zealous therefore and repent." Revelation 3:19

i am grateful to God for His continued teaching, chastening and rebuking in my life. i am seeing how narrow the narrow way truly is in Matthew 7:13-14 and how great is Gods love for his children in this crazy and lost world. Praise God and thank you Jesus for all you have done for me. Thank you my brothers and sisters for being my family and for your prayers. Amen.