BBD 04.15.21 Out of Control (Classic)

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Classic from 2002

Burning Bush Devotional

15 April 2021

Out of Control

And after
some days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for
Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. Now as he reasoned about
righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and
answered, ‘Go away for now; when I have a convenient time I will call for you.’
- Acts 24:24-25.

In
Darwin, Australia the pilot of small plane (a Cessna 182) was trying to start
the plane by cranking the propeller by hand. The plane’s engine started and
began to move before the pilot could get back aboard it. The pilot wasn’t
aboard, but his three children were. John
Hardy owner of Hardy Aviation said, “He (the pilot) wasn’t in
the airplane but his three children were, which is pretty frightening, and the
aircraft engine sprang into life and developed enough power to tear off down
the taxiway. I think one wheel was off the ground, and it was accelerating very
quickly.” The plane came to a stop after crashing
into three small planes that were parked. The children were unhurt but
frightened by their wild ride.

Felix
was a Roman governor and powerful official. He held Paul in prison and talked
with him often over the course of two years hoping that Paul or his friends
would give him money for Paul’s release. A Roman historian, Tacitus, said that Felix, “maintained
the royal law with a servile disposition by means of all sorts of cruelty and
greed.” There is no record of Felix ever coming to
that “more convenient time” when he would have received Christ as his Savior. The downward
spiral of sin in the life of Felix was out of control, and it took him further
than he wanted to go. Felix found life had taken him past heaven and all the
way to hell.

During
the downward spiral of sin, we will find that we are not in control of our life
and that the farther we go the faster we go. Sin always takes us farther than
we want to go because sin takes control. How many people have thought that they
could use cocaine without becoming addicted, or that they could drink without
becoming an alcoholic but discovered too late that their little sin had taken
control. How many people are in prison because they planned to be in
prison? Very few! They are there because sin took them on
a wild frightening ride taking them farther than they wanted to go.

Do you
have some “little sin” in your life? Please don’t wait until
some “more convenient time” to turn away from it because that time may never come. When
will you come to the point of no return? When will your life be out of control
and sin will be in the driver’s seat? Felix never knew when that point
came just as countless others have missed it as well.

If you
have a “little sin” in your life turn around before it
destroys you. If you turn around now you might miss the frightening downward
plunge to destruction. Don’t let sin take you farther than you want to go!

Copyright © 2002 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman’ Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; Gwen P.; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison; JoJo,
Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx Jones; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had
a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana Bass; Matthew
Collins; Marjean C.; Shonda H. (fighting cancer); and please pray for my wife,
Jeanie, who is having a problem with her heart.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
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Classic from 2002

Burning Bush Devotional

15 April 2021

Out of Control

And after
some days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for
Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. Now as he reasoned about
righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and
answered, ‘Go away for now; when I have a convenient time I will call for you.’
- Acts 24:24-25.

In
Darwin, Australia the pilot of small plane (a Cessna 182) was trying to start
the plane by cranking the propeller by hand. The plane’s engine started and
began to move before the pilot could get back aboard it. The pilot wasn’t
aboard, but his three children were. John
Hardy owner of Hardy Aviation said, “He (the pilot) wasn’t in
the airplane but his three children were, which is pretty frightening, and the
aircraft engine sprang into life and developed enough power to tear off down
the taxiway. I think one wheel was off the ground, and it was accelerating very
quickly.” The plane came to a stop after crashing
into three small planes that were parked. The children were unhurt but
frightened by their wild ride.

Felix
was a Roman governor and powerful official. He held Paul in prison and talked
with him often over the course of two years hoping that Paul or his friends
would give him money for Paul’s release. A Roman historian, Tacitus, said that Felix, “maintained
the royal law with a servile disposition by means of all sorts of cruelty and
greed.” There is no record of Felix ever coming to
that “more convenient time” when he would have received Christ as his Savior. The downward
spiral of sin in the life of Felix was out of control, and it took him further
than he wanted to go. Felix found life had taken him past heaven and all the
way to hell.

During
the downward spiral of sin, we will find that we are not in control of our life
and that the farther we go the faster we go. Sin always takes us farther than
we want to go because sin takes control. How many people have thought that they
could use cocaine without becoming addicted, or that they could drink without
becoming an alcoholic but discovered too late that their little sin had taken
control. How many people are in prison because they planned to be in
prison? Very few! They are there because sin took them on
a wild frightening ride taking them farther than they wanted to go.

Do you
have some “little sin” in your life? Please don’t wait until
some “more convenient time” to turn away from it because that time may never come. When
will you come to the point of no return? When will your life be out of control
and sin will be in the driver’s seat? Felix never knew when that point
came just as countless others have missed it as well.

If you
have a “little sin” in your life turn around before it
destroys you. If you turn around now you might miss the frightening downward
plunge to destruction. Don’t let sin take you farther than you want to go!

Copyright © 2002 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman’ Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; Gwen P.; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison; JoJo,
Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx Jones; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had
a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana Bass; Matthew
Collins; Marjean C.; Shonda H. (fighting cancer); and please pray for my wife,
Jeanie, who is having a problem with her heart.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time constraints
the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a blank email
to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the
confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

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