Tainted Testimony
1 Corinthians 5:6 “Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?” NKJV
Life Lesson: Bragging about your sin is wrong.
I’ve heard many well meaning people share fifty-eight minute testimonies on the blood and guts of their life, before Christ, and then two minutes on the beauty of their walk with Jesus. Friend, don’t do that! Don’t glorify the past while playing down the future. Don’t let your sin steal the glory from God … In your testimony and in life.
If you glorify your past sin, guess what will happen when you are eventually tempted? You will begin to reason about the size of the sin. “It’s just a little sin,” you might say. You are a living testimony. My friend, a little bit of leaven will violate your entire life if you let it in. Guess what then happens to your testimony?
Dear Father,
Thank You for loving me. Thank You that even though I have done wrong things, You invite me to come to You. It is through Your sacrifice, my sins will pass over me. Thank You for revealing Yourself to me. Lord, I come to You afresh and ask that You forgive me of my sins. Give me the power to live for You, and help me to walk in the newness of life. I choose to be a kingdom-builder and a world-changer. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Living to tell what He died to say,
Pastor David McGee
Senior Pastor
Calvary Chapel of the Triad
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2 Responses to “Tainted Testimony”
January 31st, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Thank you for this post! When you decide to live your life for Christ and to Follow Him, Its not about who you were … Its about who you are now and how you are livin’ your life… now that you are livin’ it for Him … and no longer for yourself.
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:8-10 NKJV
January 31st, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Very true. I think the types that have “testimonies” like that are lacking in discipleship on what a real testimony is. Not a war story of the glory days in sin, an account of what Jesus has done in our lives. I like Paul’s testimony in Acts 22 (23? I forget) – five verses explaining his life as a sinner BC, and the rest of the chapter on his conversion and what Christ has done for him/is doing with him.