COME CLEAN

 1Samuel 3:10-4;1a
"He is the Lord; let him do what is good in his eyes" (1 Sam.3:18b).

 COME CLEAN

Norayr (Norman) Hajian
Whitehorse, Yukon
Territory Canada
Pastor
Church of the Nazarene 

We have all experienced the sinking feeling when we did something wrong; sooner or later, we know we will be held accountable. We can either own up to what we did or we can wait for the inevitable consequences. Sometimes waiting is worse then th punishment itself!

Eli knew it was coming, he just didn't know when it would happen. He had failed to restrain his sons, and in the process they had strayed from the lord. Certainly Eli's sons exercised their free will in rebelling against the Lord., but Eli, too, did wrong when he knowingly avoided disciplining  his sons when he had  the opportunity. The result was God's judgment; first told to Eli through a "man of God" (1Sam.2:27a), and now given through Samuel.

While Eli rightly accepted the judgment of God, things may have been different for him if, instead of waiting for the inevitable, he started to deal with what he had done wrong.


"If we confess our sins, [God] is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins" (1John 1:9a), but if we ignore our sins, we are simply waiting for the inevitable. Now is the time to come clean.



A godly heritage is not abandoning your child at the house of God. It is making where you live with them a house of God (Harold Bonner).


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