Spiritual Erosion

December 9, 2013

Good Morning, My Beloved Ones,

     I pray that the one who tries the hearts of men finds only love inside of yours.
     Today, I want to talk to you about “Spiritual Erosion”.  

Did you know that the Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma area highly eroded remnant of a mountain chain believed to have once stretched from Texas into Southeastern Canada?  The state that once hosted a huge mountain range is now primarily flat prairie.  How did this happen?  It happened little by little, bit by bit, over much time through a process called erosion.  Erosion is a gradual undermining and wearing away caused by natural elements like wind, ice and water.
     Unfortunately, mountains are not the only thing in danger of erosion.  Did you know that 31% of evangelical Bible-believing people professing Christianity are pro-choice according to a recent poll?  How does a person go from believing that man is made in the image of God, that all life is sacred and believing that “thou shalt not kill” to believing that ending an unborn life can be an acceptable choice?  It happens little by little, bit by bit over much time through the undermining and wearing away of their belief in God’s truths by natural elements like disappointment in God, selfish desires and compromise.  It’s Spiritual Erosion.

     Man does not go from being a sold-out, God-serving believer to a lost, self-serving atheist overnight.  He doesn’t wake up one day and say, “Ok, this God thing isn’t working for me, let’s try something different.”  His faith slowly erodes away each time he feels his prayer go unanswered, God doesn’t do it his way or he needs to soften his stance in order to be politically correct or socially acceptable.  Little by little, bit by bit, his mind changes about what he believes.
    How does one guard against spiritual erosion?  The answer is to be so rooted and grounded in God’s word that when the natural elements come to undermine and wear away, they can’t get a good foothold.  When you feel your prayer is going unanswered, you can quote Psalm 34:17, “The righteous cry out and the Lord heareth them.” When God doesn’t do it your way, you can remember Isaiah 55:9: “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways.” And when you are tempted to compromise your beliefs to be acceptable to men, you’ve got Galatians 1:10, “…do I seek to please men?  For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”

     Arm yourselves against spiritual erosion, beloved ones.  Don’t let natural elements chip away at your salvation.  The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy, the Bible tells us.  He doesn’t do it all at once.  He does it little by little, bit by bit, through spiritual erosion.

Not letting my mountain become a plain – your sister, Raelynn