Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Disguised

Why do we put 'sizes' on sin?  We label them as 'big' or 'small' when there really is no such thing.  A 'white lie' is still a lie.
Satan likes to pretty up sin.  He likes to confuse the definition of sin by suggesting that there really isn't anything wrong with it, he whispers in our ears, 'That's not so bad.'  Satan can muddle our discernment to the point where we can no longer see sin for what it is:  SIN.

The other day, my husband and I were driving to the store, and we passed a tree that had a massive growth on it's side.  When I first saw it, I thought it was some type of nest, or maybe even just a knot that had grown on the bark of the tree, but my husband said it was a fungus!  This type of fungus grows on trees when a fungal spore comes in contact with a 'susceptible' host.  It attaches itself to the host and begins to grow, making it one with the host.  This fungus even begins to 'look' like it's host.  This fungus was the same color and texture of the bark of the tree.
Webster's Dictionary defines susceptible as this:  Open, subject or un-resistant to influence.
Sin will work the same way in our lives if we are not careful!  Worldly influences will enter our thoughts and minds and our actions will begin to change.  Mutate to a point where others cannot tell if we are a Child of God.  If we do not identify sin as sin, it will creep into our lives in disguise.  It will attach itself to us and become a part of us.  It can go unnoticed until one day it becomes a hideous growth on our character.
Psalms 1:1 explains this downward progression.

So what can we do?  We need to realize that we cannot trust our hearts.  Jeremiah 17:9 says, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:  who can know it?"

Consider your ways and turn to God's way:  Psalm 119:59 "I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies."

See sin as it truly is, SIN.

I want to be so close to my Saviour that I won't be susceptible to sins disguises....
    But that's just me!

"Sin slyly insinuates itself and by slow degrees prevails, therefore must we carefully guard against it."  Charles Spurgeon

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