This is why some sins are so easy to break.

     In thinking about my own experience in finding Christ, I want to share some thoughts about how we get where we are and how we get where we want to go.  When I came to Christ in Sept. 1985, I was in a very bad place while attending LSU.  All the things I was involved in were starting to weigh me down and in addition to running from the call of God on my life contributed to the fact that I was living with no peace of mind, heart or soul.  I needed God.
     When I responded to that  call given by Peggy Richards that night, it was like a huge weight had been lifted from my back.  The call was actually for those who felt destined for ministry and that had been the thing that I had run from.  Instantly, several sins that had dominated my life fell off of me that night.  I didn't realize it that night but I just never went back to them.  I never drank alcohol or smoked marijuana again after responding to God's call on my life.  It was so easy, I didn't struggle, I didn't have to battle, I was just free.  It was awesome, and I thought everything in my life was going to be just that easy.  I found out that it wasn't and so my journey began.  My journey to understand me, to understand why, and to understand how I was going to be what God had called me to be.
     I had tried often to stop smoking weed and drinking.  In fact, it had gotten to the point where I hated those things in my life and what they were doing to me.  I knew the weed was robbing me of ambition and drive and I just hated the taste of alcohol, but drank for the buzz.  What had begun as something fun was now my prison.  I hated them but couldn't stop.  That's when God delivered me from them.  We need deliverance from those things we feel imprisoned by.  No matter how they begin at some point they grab us and won't let us go.

Psalm 144:11 Rescue me, save me from the power of my enemies.....

• God will deliver you from those things in life that have become your enemies.
• Those are the sins that you hate because you hate what they do to you even though you may feel powerless to break them but you hate them.
• God delivered Lot from destruction, and we know Lot disagreed with the lifestyle he saw there. 
• David often prayed for deliverance.

The demoniac of Gadera was delivered instantly of being possessed. You know he had to have had some bitterness to deal with because of they way he was treated in that city. In fact, Jesus told him to stay there when he wanted to travel with Jesus. I'm sure he wasn't totally discipled even though he was set free.  I can imagine that he had to work through some father issues, some people issues, some emotional issues because of being "that guy".

Paul said this: "Romans 7:24 (NLT)
24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?

      Deliverance is God's answer to the sins that bind us, those sins we've grown to hate because of what they do to us.  I really believe that God will deliver you just like He did for me when you come to Him humbly and ask for help.  You could do that right where you are right now.   Tomorrow I'll talk about those sins that don't fall off immediately.  I think it's because those sins are the ones we love.