"Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword? For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." -The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
Your "oneness" with God can be damaged, but nothing separates you from the love of Christ.
God did not form and establish you to be a worthless waste; He formed you to occupy and possess the gates of your enemies.
Last week, we learned that our "oneness" is threatened by immaturity. But what else separates us from being "one" with our Creator (and others?)
- Oneness is threatened by sinful habits and decisions.
Oneness between God and humanity was only fulfilled when Christ crucified the one thing that destroyed it: FLESH.
The enemy can do nothing against the love God has for us; all he can do is attack your "oneness" or intimacy with God, because that's the one component you are involved in.
Innately, we are stubborn and hardheaded. Jesus told the Pharisees when they tried to justify divorce or the separation of oneness: "Because of the hardness (stubbornness and perversity) of your hearts Moses permitted you to dismiss and repudiate and divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been so [ordained]" (Matt 19:8.)
Sin separates man from God and causes our "oneness" to be torn asunder.
Are you tearing apart the purpose He created for you?
Are you living in habitual sin?
Are you willing to stop doing something that destroys your "oneness" with Christ and someone you love?
Habitual sin is the practice of sin involuntarily; it is when sin becomes an accepted, daily part of your life, like reading the newspaper. You see nothing wrong with it.
But when someone is joined as "one" to God or to a spouse, that word "joined" means to cement yourself to the other party, so there can be no separation without causing irreparable damage, harm, injury or pain.
When you are "one" with God and sin separates your walk (or union) with Him, the "pain" you often experience is the conviction of His Presence (Spirit) Who is grieved at your transgressions (or bad decisions.)
It never fails, when we stop doing what we are called to do, we fall into failure, forfeit and passivity.
Like Esau, we begin to trade away our inheritance and call for a single meal or morsel of satisfaction.
But, what if someone said, "Give me your ministry, business, anointing, spouse, family and kids for one night in bed with me." Would you do it?
