Credit card is not sin..as money is not sin..Sin is an outward result of an inward rebellion towards God...Why people get into debt? greed, careless,living a life without prayer, unbelief..all this are symptoms of the root cause...the root of all evil...Sin..pride..a life where God is not involve. (Rom 1:28)..Pride is saying I am God..God is not important. I can control my own life..I can create..I can do what I want...That's why just because people pray the sinners prayer..but never follow God..does not guarantee them heaven. (Mt 7:21)..Debts in the concordance has the same meaning of Sin..
Satan uses our "rebellion" to lock us in..that's why many people trying to "get out" ..find it very very hard to get out..its like a blackhole sucking them in...when we are in sin..we are held in bondage because of sin...Only God can forgive us of sin and remove the unrighteousness from us (1 John 1:9), (Isaiah 10:27) (Psalms 68:6),(Rom 5-6)....btw..when we fast, when we tithe, when we pray that 1 hour each day...its saying to God..i don't want to be God..God your are.
There is a better way of course ..see Isaiah 55, Psalms 23.
Repentance is key.
That's all for now..
Luv Edwin Koh
Isaiah 55
New International Version (NIV)
Isaiah 55
Invitation to the Thirsty
1 “Come, all you who are thirsty,come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me;
listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.
4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a ruler and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations you do not know will come running to you,
because of the LORD your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor.”
6 Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12 You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORD’s renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.”
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12 You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORD’s renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.”
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