It is typical in today's world to defend your poor choices to the end or to blame them on all kinds of other people around you or to refuse to see that your sin was a sin at all.  We have seen some wonderfully contrite hearts at X2 in recent days. God is greatly at work in the lives of some students who certainly did some bad choosing.  It is not for us to get them to feel badly. For some who knew they were walking down a road that was not right and never spoke up, the responsibility hangs just as heavily.  If we are going to be brothers and sisters in Christ then, helping to keep each other pure is as much our responsibility as it is theirs.  If they refuse to listen that is different; but rarely do we want to look like that person who attempts to get in the way of other's sin.  If we can learn anything from the lesson of Cain and Able, it is that we are to be our brother's keeper. We are to look out for the spiritual and physical welfare of our friends and family. It is crazy for someone to know that someone is walking head long into sin, not say or do anything and then be arrogant and self-righteous about it.

 

A broken and contrite heart the Lord will not despise or turn away. So far from what I can tell, God is pleased with the heart-felt repentance and sorrow over sin that has been expressed by some in our ministry. God's grace is sufficient to cover it all; if we confess our sin, he is faithful and just to forgive us.

 

Just one more way to be God's,

p.e.