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Recently, my daughter took the wrong kind of cookie. She dropped her guard for a few seconds and the allergens she consumed set off a series of emergencies. Dropping your guard. Dropping my guard. That is so easy to do. Like going down the morality slide, it all starts when we drop our guard. When we make little bad choices. When we let that little seemingly innocent temptation squat in a tiny corner of our heart. And we think nothing of it. Then we let another seemingly friendly foe find residence in another part of our heart. And we dismiss its presence. Soon, we have an entire population of “little” enemies of the soul, chipping away our resolve to walk in the light. And one day, we make a bad choice, topping all the little bad choices we had been making. And guess what? That sin of ______________(fill in the blanks) we thought we had conquered suddenly finds full expression. And nothing can stop the motion of consequences that follows. Not even true repentance. Think Adam and Eve. Think Jacob. Think David. This Sunday afternoon, I pray I will not let pride blind me to all the “little” bad choices I have carelessly made. I pray I have the resolve, and the courage, to kick out every enemy of my soul that I had given tacit permission to become a tenant in my heart...they do add up, exponentially. No, I don't want to even think about taking the first bite of the “cookie” just because I can rationalize away its possible harm it might do to me. Sometimes all you need is just one bite and that very bite can very well be the one that totally destroys your testimony and witness. My spirit is allergic to anything that displeases the Lord. Instead of occasionally “testing” those spiritual allergens or pretending they don't really affect me, I should just eliminate them. And I should remember that they are everywhere, and like food allergies, I can never be too careful... |
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Posted by Eugenia