Today I discovered that another minister of the gospel has fallen into serious, public, and sit-down-causing sin.  It burdened my heart when I heard the news.  As I prayed for him and his family all that was running through my head was the song by Queen, Another One Bites the Dust.  I hate this!

While I pray his sin is not fatal nor final, and that God is gracious in the recovery of this man’s faith, family, and name, it does soberly remind me that all of us are but a simple deception away from facing similar circumstances.  I hated to hear that this brother was deceived by sin, and I can only imagine the impact it is having on his wife, kids, and church.  Yet, in a selfish sense I needed this reminder today as my own heart has the tendency to get puffed up and stray from the simplicity and beauty of the gospel.

I don’t know what God is doing in allowing this pastor to fall.  But I do know what He is doing in allowing me to find out.  He is saying to me that I need to be all the more diligent less I too be deceived by the deceitfulness of sin (Heb. 3:13).