Quote from Forum Archives on August 31, 2005, 10:41 pm

Posted by: wrather <wrather@...>

The transition to a new website has begun. It will take several months to
make this transition and during this time the old website will remain at the
current url www.theburningbush.org and the new website will be at the url
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transition is complete and new devotionals will be posted at the new and old
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08.31.05

Stop the Flood

And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of
sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The
night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works
of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as
in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in
strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for
the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. - Romans 13:11-14.

New Orleans is almost completely submerged in flood waters. The levies
protecting the city were breached and the flood waters poured in from Lake
Pontchartrain. Along with the water have come contamination, snakes,
alligators, and now even dead bodies are floating in the flood waters. The
Army Core of Engineers has been trying to formulate a plan to plug up the
breach and stop the flood. Most of the plans have included the use of
helicopters to drop sand bags or concrete blocks or other material into the
breach. Hopefully, there will be a plan actually implemented soon to stop
this terrible flood.

In many ways the flood waters of New Orleans is a picture of the
contamination of the world entering into a Christian's life. The apostle
Paul lists some of those contaminating influences that constantly threaten
to flood into the lives of those that are tempted by the world. Paul lists
some of those contaminating influences such as revelry, drunkenness,
lewdness, lust, envy and strife.

What do you do when the flood of the world threatens to overwhelm you? To
stop the flood of the world into your life you must plug up the breach that
the world has made. Just as the breach in the levy at New Orleans must be
plugged up, you must shut off the influence of the world in your life. No,
we cannot use sand bags, or concrete blocks or other material things to stop
the worldly flood. So, what do we use? What do we do? We must "put on the
Lord Jesus Christ" and turn off the world or as Paul puts it, "make no
provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts".

There is a balance that we as Christians must have. We are to be the "salt
of the earth" and the "light of the world". But we must also "Come out from
among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and
I will receive you (2 Corinthians 6:17)."

If the world has overwhelmed you in its flood of evil then stop the flood by
putting on the Lord Jesus. Turn off the worldly things, and stop making
provision for them - instead turn on the godly things that lead to life
(Romans 8:5-6; John 10:10b).

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