Tuesday
The Sin that Weighs us Down
....Let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.
The first thing we do is identify the tree that is overpowered by the vines. Sometimes, by the time we see it, the vines are so tangled in the tree, it seems we can’t save it. When we first started trying to save the trees, we would cut the offending pla nt, and then strenuously pull the vines down from the tree. Afterwards there would be a huge pile of vines lying on the ground that we needed to dispose of.
After a few years, we changed our strategy. Instead of saving one tree an hour, we just went around cutting a chunk out of the vines from the ground up. Then the vines would die a slow death, but we could save many more trees that way.
When it comes to the sin in our life, either way you choose to cut the sin out of your life is ok. Completely and all at once, or cut it off at the base to let it die a slow death. You see, just like the vine uses all of the “life” intended for the tree: oxygen and water, the sin you have will suck the life right out of you.
Honestly, once you start removing the sin you will immediately feel some of the weight fall off. Each time you sever the sins’ connection to you, you allow more comforting life to fill you up, instead of death. When the sin is allowed to continue to intertwine in your life, it is slowly choking the life out of you.
Free yourself now. Do what ever it takes and look forward to the hope, rather than backwards at the sin.
Lord, I want to turn away from the sin, I want to remove it from my life, give me the strength to do so. Give me hope.
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