Keys to the Storehouse – Crossing the Boundary

Not too long ago, I was reading and relaxing on a Sabbath afternoon. After a short while I realized that my attention had been removed from what I was reading and focused on the clock. After several times of being redirected to the clock, I realized that the devil had found an area where he was hooking my attention and directing it to the cares of the world. He was drawing my mind to things that I had planned to do after sunset! He knew what I had planned and so now here I was watching the clock, counting down until sunset. What a shock to catch myself like that!

My mind was then directed to something I had read. “Truth that is not lived … loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue.” The Ministry of Healing, 149.

I believe in keeping the Sabbath holy and thinking upon heavenly things and here I was thinking about and looking forward to this event after the Sabbath—I was clock watching! I was drifting away from doing right. Do you understand the meaning of iniquity? It is deviating from right!  There was iniquity in my heart at that moment—I was deviating from the right! What a shock for me.

I caught myself transgressing the 4th commandment by crossing over the bounds of the Sabbath—not keeping it holy! Oh, my heart broke, knowing that I had broken over the bounds of the law—knowing that I had transgressed the law. Do you see how sneaky that devil can be? I am so thankful that I had read about how the truth can lose its life-giving power if not lived. I am so thankful that the Holy Spirit brought that to my mind as a warning! I want to always live the truth!

We need to always fill our minds with Bible and Spirit of Prophecy so that the Holy Spirit can alert us to the danger we may be in. I bowed my knees and asked for forgiveness and I am thankful that God has promised, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).

Remember:

  • Iniquity = deviation from right—even if it is just a little thing, a wrongful act
  • Transgression = to break over the bounds of the law, even a little over the boundary
  • Sin = transgress, neglect or disregard the divine law or any requirement of right or duty

God loves us and sends all heaven to alert us of our danger! Praise God for His unrelenting love.

O Heavenly Father: I am so thankful for Your mercies to each one of us—to alerting us to the dangers on our pathway and redirecting us away from those so-called little sins and little distractions. Each of us continue to pray, “Hold up my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps slip not” (Psalm 17:5). Amen.