The Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit

600 - Today's Prime Time Devo comes from 2Sa 19:15-19, “Then the king returned and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to escort the king across the Jordan. 16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, who was from Bahurim, hastened and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David. 17 There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over the Jordan before the king. 18 Then a ferryboat went across to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. Now Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king when he had crossed the Jordan. 19 Then he said to the king, "Do not let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember what wrong your servant did on the day that my lord the king left Jerusalem, that the king should take it to heart. (2 Sam 19:15-19) Let's talk about Shimei. If you recall, he was the one who had cursed David as David was fleeing Jerusalem. As David is preparing to ascend again to the throne, Shimea “hastened” to meet him. He didn't dilly dally, and look what he did! He fell down before the king and begged forgiveness for his sin. I can really identify with Shimei. I remember my own pre-conversion days and the times I literally cursed God. I said pretty much the same things Shimei had said, accusing God of being a blood thirsty tyrant as I blamed Him for every bad thing in the world. “If You were really God, You wouldn't allow these things to happen!” “Why should I bow down to such a tyrant,” I ranted. But then one day God quietly came to me in His mercy and grace, and opened my eyes to His great love for a sinner like me. He assured me that even my speaking evil of Him and Jesus were forgivable sins. And by the sure promises of His Word, I know that He took those sins and all others I have committed and threw them away. Buried in the sea of forgetfulness, cast away as far as east is from the west! Now, forgiven and clean, by His grace, I stand like Shimei free of all my past sins. Can you identify with any of this? Are you holding back because you think that God could never forgive you for cursing Him? Then learn from Shimei. Hasten to Jesus! Don't dilly dally! While you still have breath in your body there is time. The Holy Spirit is calling you here today, to not resist the grace and mercy of Christ. To resist His call and refuse His gift of repentance is the only unforgivable sin. Jesus said in Mt 12:31 "Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.