Living Close to God is for our Protection

Exodus 32:15-19 (KJV)
¹⁵  And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
¹⁶  And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
¹⁷  And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
¹⁸  And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
¹⁹  And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

The closer I get to God the level of my love for him elevates in intensity while simultaneously, my hatred for sin will intensify. Holiness and sin are polar opposites. The closer you get to the one, automatically, the further you get from the other.

Look at Moses - he has been in a complete holy environment for 40 days. There has been no contact with sin or its effects for forty days. Moses has been in the presence of truth and this all he has heard for this entire time with the Lord. He now walks right into an environment of total depravity and debauchery. Moses is radiating the glory of God, and it reacts violently to sin.

This is a normal response when a person is living close to the Lord. I wonder, is the opposite happening to the American church which is embracing compromise and ultimately dangling itself over the pits of confusion. It seemingly is staying just far enough away from God in creating an atmosphere of acceptance to sin. The church leans right but not far enough to break all connections to sin. Our attitude towards sin will be an indicator of our proximity to God in relationship. Look at the following:

Hebrews 1:9 (KJV)

⁹  Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Living close to God is for our own protection, because it will keep us far from sin. This close relationship will produce not just an emotion but an accurate understanding of how devastating sin really is. We begin to realize that sin is not simply a mistake, a mere negative thought, or an act, but treason that lampoons the heart of God every time it is committed.

When we love someone, we won’t be able to bear the thought of hurting the one we love so much!