BBD 04.20.21 The Cost of Sin (Classic)

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Classic from 2002

Burning Bush Devotional

20 April 2021

The Cost of Sin

I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live. - Deuteronomy 30:19 NKJV.

The West Coast port shutdown (2002) is continuing in the United States with twenty-nine ports now shutdown from Seattle to San Diego. The ships are backing up in the ports with nowhere to go with their cargo. Those ships will be unable to leave to pick up and deliver more cargo. On shore, things are quickly growing into a crisis situation. Factory after factory is facing shutdown as they run out of materials needed for their products.

Some companies are considering using planes to fly in materials but, of course, this will be much more expensive and raise the cost of goods. The economic consequences of the shutdown are spreading with the result of rising prices and shortages of goods. Employees too are being idled on a wider and wider scale as the shutdown continues resulting in substantial loss of income and further slowing the economy.

The fact is that spiritually some people do choose the path of death and cursing. That path at first does not seem so bad much like the port shutdown but as time moves along more and more negative consequences are seen.

When someone begins to use illegal substances, there may not be any immediate consequences. However, because of the addictive nature of the substances more and more money is required to use them. That money is taken away from where it normally would be used. The person who chooses this path begins to be late in making payments and then is unable to make payments. Often jobs are lost and then material possessions are used up and many times people end up on the street.

For the substance abuser, relationships begin to deteriorate as their decision-making abilities are impaired by the harmful effects of the substances and often psychological abnormalities arise. Eventually, marriages break apart, children are taken away, and many end up in prison or their lives come to an end through an overdose or poor health, which resulted from their use of the illegal substances.

The same deterioration is seen with other sinful activities, although it may not be as dramatic. Having an affair, for example, is going down the wrong path, the path of cursing and death. Every area of your life is affected, and usually it is like the port shutdown with a stagnation and slowdown that result in an eventual meltdown.

We do have set before us on a continual basis two choices. We can choose life, or we can choose death. With each decision, we ought to ask ourselves whether the result of that decision leads to more life, or if it will lead to a deadening in our life.

The real cost of sin is always more than we really want to pay. If you have been going down the path of cursing and death, turn around! Stop choosing death and begin choosing life. Begin today!

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; Todd Higgins; 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.; Bradley E.; 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.

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Posted by: burningbushdevo <burningbushdevo@...>

Classic from 2002

Burning Bush Devotional

20 April 2021

The Cost of Sin

I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live. - Deuteronomy 30:19 NKJV.

The West Coast port shutdown (2002) is continuing in the United States with twenty-nine ports now shutdown from Seattle to San Diego. The ships are backing up in the ports with nowhere to go with their cargo. Those ships will be unable to leave to pick up and deliver more cargo. On shore, things are quickly growing into a crisis situation. Factory after factory is facing shutdown as they run out of materials needed for their products.

Some companies are considering using planes to fly in materials but, of course, this will be much more expensive and raise the cost of goods. The economic consequences of the shutdown are spreading with the result of rising prices and shortages of goods. Employees too are being idled on a wider and wider scale as the shutdown continues resulting in substantial loss of income and further slowing the economy.

The fact is that spiritually some people do choose the path of death and cursing. That path at first does not seem so bad much like the port shutdown but as time moves along more and more negative consequences are seen.

When someone begins to use illegal substances, there may not be any immediate consequences. However, because of the addictive nature of the substances more and more money is required to use them. That money is taken away from where it normally would be used. The person who chooses this path begins to be late in making payments and then is unable to make payments. Often jobs are lost and then material possessions are used up and many times people end up on the street.

For the substance abuser, relationships begin to deteriorate as their decision-making abilities are impaired by the harmful effects of the substances and often psychological abnormalities arise. Eventually, marriages break apart, children are taken away, and many end up in prison or their lives come to an end through an overdose or poor health, which resulted from their use of the illegal substances.

The same deterioration is seen with other sinful activities, although it may not be as dramatic. Having an affair, for example, is going down the wrong path, the path of cursing and death. Every area of your life is affected, and usually it is like the port shutdown with a stagnation and slowdown that result in an eventual meltdown.

We do have set before us on a continual basis two choices. We can choose life, or we can choose death. With each decision, we ought to ask ourselves whether the result of that decision leads to more life, or if it will lead to a deadening in our life.

The real cost of sin is always more than we really want to pay. If you have been going down the path of cursing and death, turn around! Stop choosing death and begin choosing life. Begin today!

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; Todd Higgins; 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.; Bradley E.; 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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