Monday, 11 June 2012
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The Power of Sin
Sin has the power to take all that Jesus has for us and crumble it to nothingness. It waits for the moment that it can execute the most crippling blow possible. It tries to fight off all opposition. It seeks us out in advance before it strikes. It watches us. Sin knows when we are weakest. When it hits us it latches on like a leech, hoping to suck all that brings your life into this world away, feeding on your suffering.
But sin does not just stop at making you suffer. Sin will use you as a host. It is a parasite that seeks to reproduce to other targets. Once it’s hooked onto you, the sin will use you to make others fall into the cycle. Sin seeks out the best way to destroy our strong holds. Instead of attacking at our walls, it eats away the ground beneath us, causing us to fall into the pit of darkness where other sins lurk; waiting for their opportunity to strike.
One sin will easily blow through. Easily cured, you can continue on with little problems. But multiple sins will slow you down, they will drain your energy, making it possible for even more to catch up and climb aboard.Eventually left untreated, sin can cause depression, thoughts of self-worthlessness, bad decisions, sticky situations, the ruining of relationships, divorce, anger, frustration, jealousy, self-loathing, and possibly even suicide.
What do we do with the species of sin? Don’t just treat the species, treat the whole kingdom of sin. All of it is evil, all of it slows you down on the path of God, and some even turn you away. Sin does anything it can to attack you. And when it sticks, others will follow.
Find the cure today. Call out for Jesus.
How has sin impacted your life? What negative repercussions do you see in your life because of your sin? What can we do to remove the sin from our lives?
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Comments (6)
Thank you, wise post, helped me get some deeper understanding.
Peace
mark
Sin affected the way I mothered my children for a two year period of time after a mental breakdown. I think if affects all of us in how we deal with one another. Maybe there's a person down the street that just drives us bonkers, so we avoid him, or make no eye contact. Maybe being rude to someone when we've received a defective item in the mail. All things, little and great, that we allow to change our personality need to be dealt with kindly. This is one of my battles. Avoiding my 90 year old next door neighbor when I ought to check on her because she's so nasty. I should rise above this, but its so hard.
Right on...sin is merely the symptom. God said to Cain 'If you make things beautiful, shall it not be lifted up...[otherwise] Sin crouches at the door.' (Gen 4). There seems an invitation to live fully (revealing all God made each of us to be) and in that place (or really on the journey to knowing ourselves) there is freedom.
And how do we walk in freedom? Whatever is not of faith is sin (Rom 14:23) and none of us are without sin (Rom 3:10). As I think you're suggesting...seems that we gain freedom only by faith...and oddly we are not the producers of our faith (Heb 12:2), but receivers only. So totally...relationship with God is the only means to lasting freedom from sin.
So if God alone is our righteousness...and He is the one calling us to life with Him (1 Jn 4:19) then seems to me we can have a peace and assurance that God is with us before, during, and after our sin. And that our life (including our sins) is used by God to fulfill His will to transform the earth (Rom 8). Woo hoo!
So what is our role in relationship to sin? Love God and love others (not with our future, some day better selves, but) with our current best we have to offer today selves. And repentance makes me feel better too.
Thanks for this!
What we focus on we get more of.
So if you focus on the sin in your life, it will only grow.The good life is one spent centered around virtue. If you focus on virtue it will only grow.
Well said.
Interesting thought that it not only harms us but uses us to harm others. I like above where the poster said to focus on virtue. You have to focus on what you should do rather than what you shouldn't do.