1 Chronicles 15:13 For because ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

I sought the Lord to bring a sense of God moving in our lives. He is active and real and initiates all blessings, glory and honor. Why is it that we do not see that? What went wrong? What are we to do about it?

Consider that God is at work around you at all times. He invites us to be part of that work, He has set it before us. This from 2^nd John; For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever. That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

God is on the move and if we do not respond to that which He has set before us, He moves on. When we do not walk in that moment, a breach is created. Not that God caused the breach, but that by not responding we created the breach.

How do we fix it?

1 Chronicles 15:14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.

We sanctify ourselves, separate ourselves from anything and everything that keeps us from following after the covenant of Jesus Christ.

For some that sounds drastic. That is because we desire to hold on to worldly cares and concerns more than to follow God. This chapter of 1^st Chronicles ends with David dancing and playing before the Ark in the streets. The very last line indicates his wife Michal despised him in her heart. His wife, flesh of his flesh, hated him for this.

The flesh hates it when you do the right thing.

Matthew 12:35-37 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

If you take verse 36 all by itself and allow it to speak into your experience, you just might find you have a problem. If every word I speak is going to be held against me, I am in serious trouble. There is nothing iffy about this statement, it is a declarative, this will come into being on our day of judgement. What’s to be done about it? I cannot take back those words.

Refocus rather on the preceding verse and then the following verse, rather than verse 36 alone. Take it in context. Always look for context. That will save you much grief.

First look to the condition of your heart. Do you now have a new heart condition? Has your stony heart been replaced by a heart of flesh? Ezekiel 26:36 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. This speaks to being born again, John 3:5. If you have been born again, this settles the first issue.

Verse 37 speaks to two conditions upon which only one can exist after the day of judgement. You will either be justified, or condemned. Justification is what we are seeking as a result after all the words of our mouth have been judged. Nothing that is handed down in sentencing is more important than to be justified. Justified keeps you out of the fiery pit, no matter what else happens.

Deuteronomy 25:1-2 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

The justified will receive punishment for their words that is not unto death, being sent to that fiery pit.