CONVICT ME LORD

Convict me Lord
So that I will change my ways
I want to be as You Lord
Want me to be
So let conviction come on me.

Let me delight in knowing
That what I change of me
Is because of the desire in me
Placed here from You.

I glorify You Lord
For being watchful
And showing attentiveness to me
As You do this work in me.

It might hurt sometimes when God whispers to me. My spirit prickles, and I know that something has to go, and He starts a clean up in me. .(John 16:7-11)

Months before I asked the Lord into my life He started cleaning me up. First to go was my drinking. The smell hit me like a ton of bricks and though I tried to explain away the awful smell of my favorite drink, it turned my stomach so much, I stopped drinking. Next to go was my love of jewelry. I flaunted it and let you see it if you met me. I especially loved my diamond set in platinum, the rock I called it and it was THE ROCK. I took it off after someone told me my hand would look better without the finger, with the ring attached. It was months after I invited the Lord into my life before He led me to look at THE ROCK in its box. I opened it to see a rock, a salt rock to be exact. Not very pretty and not worth much when you look at it that way. God showed me the ring thru His eyes and it gave me a good understanding of why in the Bible it is not listed at the top of the list.

Yes, God convicted me, even before I asked Him into my life. And if you look at your own life you will probably see things that changed about yourself even before you asked Him to be Lord of your life.

I want God to continue to convict me, and He does. As I grow closer to Him desiring to know Him more, He causes me to search myself and brings to mind things it is time to let go of. He shows me areas in my life that I need to change and again I thank Him for that.

Once because of the atmosphere I was in I changed the way I dressed. Everyone else around me dressed a certain way and I wanted to fit in and be acceptable. It was the conviction of man, not of God. As soon as I realized it I stopped. The Lord led me to dress differently than I did when I was in the world, but not to dress as they felt I should. I also left that church. I wanted to be lead by God, not by man.

The conviction of God is when your spirit leads you to change a habit. Your spirit is from God to lead you and guide you. Conviction from a man is when you are told this is the acceptable way of doing things. Do not be mislead. A pastor, teacher, elder, mentor or brother or sister in the Lord can be used by God to show you an area in your life that needs to be changed.

God has told us in His Word that if it is from Him, He will confirm it by two or more. There will be times your spirit will convict you and you will know that you know it is from God. Then again there will be times you will say Lord is this from You. Well, ask Him, He will let you know if it is from Him.

We have to be careful of wolves in sheep’s clothing (Matthew 7:11-15). What is even worst is when those wolves honestly believe they are Shepards. They will lead you into rocky paths that will hinder your walk with the Lord. The very Shepard you are following is in fact a lost sheep themselves. They will cause conviction to come on you because it is part of their rules or traditions.

Conviction is good if from God and a good Shepard will allow God to do a work in you. If the Shepard needs to give the sheep special care, he will separate the sheep from the flock and tend to him apart. He will not treat the hurt sheep in front of others. A good Shepard will guide, not push. He will not force, or demand. He will counsel and pray with you and for you. And he will love you whatever choices you make.

Conviction from God is wonderful, guidance from a man or woman lead by God is good, but unless God confirms what the man says…well what do you think?


God Bless
rECj