Purify Your Mind Series (Part 2) by Joe KirbySample

It's Decision Time

As I draw this devotional to a close, I feel very conflicted. I don’t want to take away from all the promises of grace that we’ve looked at earlier, but I also want to warn you about the seriousness of impurity. I want to finish on a positive note, but I also don’t want to say “peace, peace” when there is no peace. So let me say this: I have been very challenged by the many Bible verses that link unrepentant sexual sin with eternal separation from God (please read the verses that come after this text carefully and prayerfully!)

If today your heart is soft towards the Word of God, flee these youthful lusts that have held onto you for so long. Next year there is no guarantee that you will feel the same desire for repentance. That’s why you would be very wise to turn from it today. If you’ve read this devotional and continued to return to the place where you shouldn’t, I plead with you to consider these severe warnings. God is longsuffering and abounding in grace, but He is also a just judge who commands all men everywhere to repent. There will be mistakes on the way, and we will never be the saint we should be this side of eternity—but I’m begging you, as you complete this devotional, to remember it’s not OK to hold the Devil’s hand and Christ’s at the same time. When you came to Christ He loosed the bonds of your sin. Whom the Son sets free is free indeed! So when we return to sin, we do so willfully—no one forces us and you need to make a decision. Will you obey the Lord’s voice and come out of Babylon, or are you quite contented remaining in the city of destruction?