Here are symptoms of spiritual insensitivity:
Have you slowly started to question whether some sins are really not that bad? Do words that used to offend you no longer offend you? Do images that used to trouble your conscience as displeasing to God no longer trouble you? Do places you used to think dishonored the Lord no longer feel that way? Are you sitting at the gates of Sodom like Lot, with evil just playing out in front of your eyes, without your righteous soul being vexed?
Does the crowd you run with slowly get you further and further away from God? Is it harder and harder to say no to sin?
Is there an endless list in your mind of things you wish you could get that others have? Like cars, houses, clothes, electronic gear, trips, money, and so on? Do you sit and try to find ways to get those things? Are you willing to sacrifice for them? Do you ever sacrifice time with God, time with the saints gathered at church, time in His Word, time in prayer, to get those things? Do the desires for those things sometimes push God right out of your thoughts?
Turn to the last verse of 1 John (5:21). Idolatry is ANYTHING that takes God’s rightful place in the life of His children. If work, entertainment, money-making, pleasure-seeking, collection-gathering, body building, beauty-enhancing, and so on have begun to erode God’s place in your life, that is idolatry.
1 John 5:21 Little children, keep (imperative; ‘guard, protect, avoid, shun, flee from’) yourselves from idols. Amen. NKJV
Repent of allowing yourself to get insensitive to God and grieving His Spirit. Ask for a fresh cleansing and filling of His Spirit.
From GEM-06f – Renewing a Spirit-Filled Mind (071125AM)
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