I need to confess a sin I CHOSE to commit, BUT FATHER HAD ANOTHER WILL I SHOULD DO. My best way of explaining just how POWERFUL GOD MAKES us when HE DOES GIVE US TO CHRIST TO FILL US WITH HIMSELF is to SHOW what happened when GOD Stepped in.
My son of 12 was about 1 yearold, so this happened 11 years ago.
I stopped at a fuel-station to put diesel in our twin-cab Isuzu. All the station-attendants (they were all dark skinned men) were having fun with four darkskinned femals in a Mazda. Because the diesel pumps were about thirty meters away, and they all saw the Isuzu pull up for diesel, not one of them were very keen to come service us.
They all looked up and they all hoped the other will be the one to go help that white Isuzu. After about ten seconds, one man came to service us. He walked slow and when he reached the Isuzu, i asked him to put in R100:00 (Rands) worth, and that he should pease do it quickly.
I asked hm to hurry, because it was already 12:30 pm, and most shop close at 1 pm and there were still two shops I had to go to. As I already gave him the R100 note while I asked him to be quick, but did not give him my reason for being in a bit of a rush, this man picked up the nozzle and halfway to the filler-cap he looked at me and said.... "Hurry you say, the days you told us to hurry is long gone..."
I said to him, sorry you feel that way, but I am in a bit of a spot, I still have to visit two shops and they close in half an hour." He now continued but he made sure to show me HE WAS NOT GOING TO DO THIS QUICKLY. I quickly estimated the fuel cituation in the car, and realized I can fill up AFTER I been to the shops. So I leaned out the car and took the money from him, and told him I would put fuel in at another service station. He handed me the keays and put the nozzle back on the pump. I put the keys in the ignition and when he walked past my window he made a bad racist remark. This had me up and out of the Isuzu in a second.
I got out rolled my right hand in a tight fist and walked after the man. I KNEW I was going to flatten him with one powerful fist on the breastbone. I did this very well and once hit a man so hard I could see the underside of his shoes as he went summersaulting backwars off my porch.
I could even see how this man with his red and blue uniform was lying on the red paving AFTER I hit him.
As I walked up to this man my wife and my two teenage dughters were already covering their eyes, they also knew; Cobus was going to hit this man. About five meters from the Isuzu right in front of the car, i cought up with him, and as I was about to let him know he was going to have it now, I felt my fist unfold, the fighting in me VANISHED, and a CALM fell on me... I heard myself say.... MY FRIEND MY BIBLE TEACHES ME THAT IF I AM WRONG, I SHOULD APPOLOGIZE TO THE OTHER MAN, NO MATTER WHAT COLOUR HIS SKIN IS!...
The man turned around and said, SIR, I FALL IN SACK AND ASHES, I AM SO SORRY, PLEASE LET ME HELP YOU QUICKLY... I left that station in record time.... But while the fuel ws going into the tank, the man said.... My name is P, and sir please can i wash your windscreen, and check your tyres, and whenever you need fuel please come here I WANT TO SERVE YOU...
I have to admit, I did NOT get out of that Isuzu to talk! Let alone talk Bible. I got out to teach him a lesson with my fist. But God did not WANT or WILLED that! Satan wanted the fight! He said the man needed a lesson, and I got out to do the will of SATAN, NOT MINE and NOT GOD'S. But GOD STEPPED IN. I just felt a peace FELL ON ME. And that peace took all the fighting out of me. But now I realized God also worked on that man.... While he walked away, God must have shown him that this was NOT a racist man, but a righteouss man in a bit of a spot, all he needs is good service, what the attendant should give WITHOUT EXPLANATION FROM THE CUSTOMERS ANYWAY!
So as I (or rather God in me) showed GOD'S WILL IN ME (unwillingly after I made the wrong choice to fight) this man saw LOVE and PEACE in me, NOT FIGHTING what I had a moment before he turned around. And God did also tell him he was wrong to assume this man is a racist. So he was ready to apoologise anyway. That is the only way that man could have had such a quick change of heart as well.
I hope God bless this message to SHOW you all just how powerful God can be in a person. God's power over sin extends to the once sinning man. God's will for us TO BE IN CHRIST is way more powerful that the flesh that would love to sin. It even changes the old love to sin, to a LOVE TO BE PEACEFUL AND HOLY AND PERFECT! That is how GOD'S SEED KEEPS A PERSON FROM SINNING!
Eternally Grateful, you are so much closer to the Truth, now as you were a few years ago, or even this time last year. EVERY WORD AND VERSE GOD REVEALED to me, I can see hitting it's mark in you. Also in Zone, Abiding and others. Soon we will be ONE (PERFECTLY ONE) in the Body of Christ! Imagine being in a BODY where JESUS is the head. Remember that Body is 100% under the control of the HEAD which is JESUS, whose will would that body do, and how many LORDS are there that that body serve? ONLY GOD! That means that body is WITHOUT SIN!