Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
We are flawed people who are vulnerable to temptation. Ever realised how we have the ability of rationalise and justify any course of action if we try hard enough? One of the main reasons why I never subscribed to having a mobile phone was because I was extremely displeased with the slack attitude of most people once they had a mobile phone. It became a easy and convenient approach to being late for appointments and constant distraction when things are going on. People seem to lose the virtue of punctuality and just lived by their own reasons of why they were late and conveniently messaged reasonable reasons like "Bus came late", "crowded"... There is never a reasonable reason which cannot be given as an excuse.
Its never too difficult to state reasons after reasons of why this and not that. But its precisely such a easily compromised attitude in us humans that the Paul warns us that sin easily entangles our lives. How else can you explain the actions of King David, the man after God's own heart who with once glance at Bathsheba made him plot to sleep with her and then decide to murder her husband Uriah? Or the reckless choices of Samson to want to marry a Philistine woman in Timnah and later fall for another called Delilah?
Anyone who does gardening will tell you that vines and seemingly pretty flowers of the creeper plants (like morning glory), are nothing short of pesky weeds! They compete with the crops and intended plants for nutrition, are more hardy and in time are able to grow faster, overwhelm and choke the garden. Similiar, sin easily corrupts us and make us do foolish things. Stupidly, with or without our knowledge, it entangles us like a creeper vine and starts to cause us to trip, do foolish things, and choke us.
Sadly, the foolishness of our mind can rationalize and justify almost any actions and our causes. If we are to have victory over the power of sin in our lives, it will come only by the power of the cross. Today may you surrender and acknowledge that we are helpless to save ourselves and only God can set us free from of our sins and its ensnaring power.
blessings,
M.
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God-through Jesus Christ our Lord! (Romans 7:24-25)
