YOUR “PLAN A” WAS NEVER GOING TO WORK

YOUR “PLAN A” WAS NEVER GOING TO WORK

DOC LYNCH

Remember The Prodigal Son? He sank so deep he was reduced to eating the corn husks fed to the hogs? Yeah. Depravity and degradation. Especially for a young Jewish boy trained up and reared on religious ceremony where you weren’t even supposed to touch a pig, let alone get down in the slop and dine on their daily bill of fare.

We all have that breaking point. Understand this has NOTHING to do with religion.

This has to do with basic human dignity that is only obtainable through Jesus Christ and His forgiveness.

This is why your “Plan A” was never going to work. It didn’t work for the young Jewish Prodigal in deciding to make his own way in the big bad world. It won’t work for you. If you happen to read this and you’re “in it” you know it is NOT working for you.

What to do, what to do?

Luke 15:18 – “I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.”

Good plan. Excellent strategy. You’ve screwed your life up and now you want to make it right.

Straight from the pig sty of failed schemes and plans. Your Plan “A”.

I will get up and go to God. I will tell Him how sorry I am and how I have come to recognize my faults. I will recognize how I have forced Him to grieve over a diminished wretch.

I will simply present myself as an object in need of His grace and forgiveness.

And I shall receive it.

That might be the most important part. Know that you shall receive it.

“If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just (true to His own nature and promises) and will forgive our sins [dismiss our lawlessness] and [continuously] cleanse us from all unrighteousness [everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action].” (1 John 1:9)

There’s a lot of freedom in that verse. Perhaps the greatest passage in the bible. Certainly up there in the Top 10.

What happens in the sty stays in the sty. No one crawls out of the slime until they say “Enough!”.

Freely admit. Of your own will and accord.

We first have to break free from our own nature of sin and evil and God will then be true to His nature.

We need forgiveness. He will forgive.

How’s that for simple?

Now, mix in your desire to change and the process is complete.

~Pastor Doc Lynch~

Revival Life Church

New Milford, CT