UNLOCKED ENTRY
A burglar needs only one open door or window in your house to get where he can cause you tremendous loss and sorrow. At that point, the doors and windows that are locked, do not matter. Sin is like that; it only needs to be allowed one point of entry into your thinking, and terrible damage follows. Think about that. Lets say you never steal, or murder, or hit and run-those are locked doors----but you entertain lustful thoughts. That is an open door, and there will be enormous chaos in your house. I hope that door is closed for you, but how about selfishness, pride, disobedience (to God), and unbelief!! If our purpose is to please God and help His people, those are entry points that we simply must choose not to allow. Sin is always incredibly destructive. God hates it.
To 'tolerate' any sin is truly insanity. The results are published every single day in our newspapers; violence, murder, unhappiness, fighting, arguing, anger, revenge, war, worry, hatred, over and over and over. Those are the end products of sin..
God has a cure, but only one, and that is to be 'in Christ.' God says that in Christ...we are dead to sin! God's grace has provided us a position where all the doors and windows are shut, and locked-where sin (the burglar) has no entry We all can live there. We do that by faith in God's Word. That faith results when we know Him If you know Him, you will love and trust Him. Marvelous!!
bh February 23, 2008
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