Stop making excuses

I am not one who usually goes around posting quotes by other people of course unless it is from the Bible or about Jesus. However today I am going to start out with three quotes that have to do with excuses. Here they are:

 He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ~Benjamin Franklin

 Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. ~Steven Grayhm

 Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb

 Keep these quotes in mind as you read Ephesians 5:3-7

 ³ Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people. ⁴ Obscene stories, foolish talk, and coarse jokes—these are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God. ⁵ You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world. ⁶ Don’t be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the anger of God will fall on all who disobey him. ⁷ Don’t participate in the things these people do.

Many, most, perhaps everyone will try to make excuses for their sins to get them excused by God. Don’t let them fool you the only way to get them excused is to trust in Jesus, and repent of those sins. For verses 6 says that they will try to excuse these sins however it goes on to say that the anger of God will still fall upon them.

When people are gathered in groups it is so easy to get sucked into what they are doing especially when they are telling obscene stories and course jokes.  These things may not seem as to you as sexual; immorality, impurity, or greed to you but it is exactly what they are. So stop making excuses. 

I want to leave you with just one more quote:

Excuses are nothing more than admitting to everyone, but yourself that you were wrong. ~ Mike Owens