A term I liked when it was used in one of our Tuesday night meetings.

It is when God disciplines you and reveals a particular sin that you haven’t acknowledged and repented yet, in other words, when God convicts you with a particular sin with a revelation.

“Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.” Hebrews 12:7-8 (NIV)

Bible says that as we continue to walk with God and in his likeness the more that we see how far we are from his character, from his image.  The more we go closer to the light the more the light reveals a particular stain in our lives that God wants us to surrender.  (1 John1:5-10)

When we know that we are doing something wrong, let us allow him to do a holy smack down in our lives.  Allow him to break us, to be convicted, to humble ourselves, to confess and repent from our sins.

In Joshua 7:19  ” Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD,  the God of Israel, and give him the praise.  Tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

Achan sinned and hid his sin but God was aware of what he has done.  After following God’s instruction, Joshua gave a charge to Achan by telling him to give glory to God by confessing his sin.

“…God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.” (1 peter 5:5)

When we repent we give glory to God, not because of our sins but because we acknowledge that apart from his grace we are nothing.  We acknowledge that we have offended God and we acknowledge the undeserving gift, the ever powerful cross of His only Son, and at the end, the glory and honor still goes back to Him.

Personally in the past weeks, I ‘ve experienced plenty of  Holy Smackdowns in my life.  It is undoubtedly uncomfortable and greiving. IT revealed how I have wrong motives on things, wrong desires, wrong perceptions, but at the end of it, God reveals more of who He is to me and I end up praising Him all the more!

Let us be sensitive to God’s correction, painful it may seems but it will definitely strengthen our relationship with Him.  By all means let us allow Him to do a “holy Smackdown” of our sins.