Turning again

Pro_26:11  As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

Gal_4:9  But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?


A fool and his folly, a dog to his vomit. one sounds frivolous and the other disgusting. Yet they both are a good picture of a saint returning to sin.

We all know someone who knew the grace and mercy of God, who was working for Him and something happened (time. friends, family, money etc) and now they are no longer working serving or anywhere near the christian they once were.

What happens to this type of person?
Did they forget God? Were they expecting the easy road, the world given to them?
Did they forget the times God worked miracles for them?
Did the feeling wear off?
Perhaps it was more mundane the pressures of life, family, work wore them down as they forgot the joy of the Lord,
The fervor and hard work does not erode in one day it is a small step process. It doesn't just fall off all of a sudden. It is a process. you stop doing this, then that and before you know it you are back where you were before the beginning.
In all likelihood the Bible time was the first thing to go, Prayer on a regular basis was probably next.
Followed shortly by excuses as to why they couldn't attend this event or that.
Then church attendance and tithing fell off. The more you don't do the right thing the less nagging you feel inside. the more you don't see the need.
After all the world didn't end the first few times you skipped church. didn't tithe, didn't do your devotions. Besides I worked really hard today, God doesn't need my money, it's my only day off.

Oh the excuses, the reasoning, the rationalizing. The comfort and the complacency of it all.

Right after you get  to where it doesn't hurt or bug you that you aren't in church then you start seeing the fun others are having. It's not hurting them to go out and have a beer. They are getting ahead without ever tithing. They are so happy and they do not buy into this God stuff.

To have never known is far better than to have known the grace and mercy, the pure and Holy God and to have turned from it.
Far more accountable is the one who knew and walked away as opposed to the one who never knew.


Gal_4:9  But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?