Oh S__T!

We own a 13 year old dog named Maxwell who has to be one of the greatest dogs of all time. He is obedient, smart, sensitive, and fun. As he is getting up there in age, I dread the day we have to put him down. I have had a lot of good dogs and he has to be the best. Max does not do a lot wrong.



One day Deb saw something on the kitchen floor and went to pick it up thinking it probably was a piece of food. The reaction and horror set in then when she realized that it was poop. Her reaction in a loud voice was OH SHIT! I had to use the exact word in this family friendly blog because no other word could say it in this case. She quickly through the poop where it belonged and washed her hands as fast as she could. Me - I had to avoid the process of snickering. Our dog rarely poops in the house so this was unexpected, an anomaly. 

My dad once owned a dog Xena which was completely incontinent. That dog routinely pooped on the carpet. When we visited them, you really had to watch where you were stepping. My dad would rise early in the morning searching for poop to pick up. It was so routine that on occasion we would catch him picking up the new found poop with his bare hands.

Sin should horrify us just like the reaction Deb had. Horror should be quick and confession should immediately follow. But too often we let in become a routine part of our lives like the situation my dad was in. Crap has so pervaded our lives that it has become routine. If it is routine, then it becomes part of us so easily. While God has promised to forgive us of sin (1 John 1:9), sin routinely confessed becomes besetting sin. That is, the impact of confession is like the routine of crap pick up. It does not restore us to the place and standing we are in Christ.

So what? What is the impact? A life that is unfulfilled, a fellowship that is broken with God and others, a lack of joy, a slavery to sin. You cannot make sin routine and expect that God will use your life to the fullest. Let sin horrify you and break your heart. Let God wash over your sin completely. Let God transform you to what you truly are in Jesus Christ.