Sin Consumes – Sunday Thought For The Day

As long as sin is not called by its true name, and never presented in its true appearance, the raw
ugliness of the sinful behavior is obscured.  And, as long as the true ugliness of the sin is concealed, the sin is viewed as acceptable not only by the unsaved, but tragically by many who claim to be saved as well.

The clever trick often employed by Satan is to place the focus on the individual juxtaposed to the sinful behavior.  Focusing upon the individual directs disapproval toward the person, and that becomes personal, whereas keeping the focus upon the sin itself places attention right where God wants it.

That is what the serpent did to Eve. It had her focus on the beauty (i.e., the physical appearance of the fruit) as opposed to focusing upon God’s command.

Sin consumes; and just like fire needs oxygen to burn, repetitive sinful practices, especially sexual perversion, fornication, drugs, and alcoholism, must become more and more extreme in order to temporarily satisfy. Hence, we see the embracing of aberrant sexual practices and desires, evolve into the disfiguring of one’s body in the foolish attempt to change the gender we were born.

It is not until we see sin as God sees it, that we can begin to abhor sinful acts and practices in our lives and in the world. But, that cannot happen until we receive God the Holy Spirit, which we cannot do until and unless we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior.

READ:

1 Corinthians 6:13-20 (KJV)

13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.