Sin by any other name is still sin. No matter it's size, shape, or color. No matter how much I try to make excuses, reason it away, or how unimportant or small I try to make it. To try and make sin to not be a sin is to deceive to myself. Sin is sin.

Set A Guard Over Me Lord

Lord guard my heart and my mind.

Don't allow me to stumble on blind.

Heal my ears, Help me to see.

Don't allow my old habits, flesh and mind to make a slave of me.

Help me to know what is right and wrong in my heart.

Keep me close to You Lord and let me not from Your ways depart. Amen

Name It 

A rose by any other name is still a rose. Today there are more names for  breeds roses than I can count. Some roses are very sweet heavy scented and some have very little or no smell at all. They come in all colors shapes and sizes. But they are still roses. I am learning that a sin by any other name is still sin. Such as a moral slip up. Sin even comes in size and color too. Such as a little white lie. And it comes in a shapes. Such as my shape when I disobey God. But doing ungodly things is still sin. It seems that for a time I have deceived myself  as I have heard others do, by calling sin by other names. And big making some seem not so bad by changing it's size or the size of it's importance or impact. By saying to my self  well it's ok to tell a have truth. You know like when on the phone someone ask is your spouse there; and because He is in another room you say no. That is still a lie and it is still sin. And even if you say to yourself my spouse needed a break, and it really isn't hurting anyone. No matter how you reason it out it is still a lie and still sin. There are so many ways from my youth up that I have learned for making sin seem like it is not sin, or not so bad. Today I say as for me it stops here. I ask You Lord from this day on make me aware when I am doing this so I may stop and repent and obey You. Amen. Because as the bible says how can I help someone take the speck out of their eye when I have a log in my own. I know it wont be easy at first because old habits are hard to break. Also I know how ashamed my heart and mind are of sin. So naturally it will keep trying to reason with me or make excuses. But that should be a cue to me to be on the look out for a sin about to happen or that has occurred. Also I know that some people will say discouraging things to me about what I am trying to do. But I know this is right and I wont give up on trying to make this change. I know the Holy Spirit who convinces and convicts and leads me into all truth will be of great help.

Who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Romans 1:25, And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting. Romans 1:28, This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience with out offense toward God and men. Acts 24:16 Having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evil doers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. 1 Peter 3:16-17

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