Scripture reading: Proverbs 30
Proverbs 30:20
"This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, 'I've done nothing wrong.' (NIV)
Isn’t it amazing how we can justify our sin? Our conscience becomes “seared” (1 Timothy 4:2)—cauterized—so that the nerve endings are deadened. We can lie to ourselves and to others for so long that our conscience becomes anesthetized—paralyzed—so we no longer feel the prick in our hearts when we do wrong. We can indulge in our sin, wipe or mouth and say “I’ve done nothing wrong.” And what we condemn in others we will condone in ourselves.
Sin has power. The Bible says that a threefold cord is not easily broken (Ecclesiastes 4:12). Once sin has gotten its tentacles wrapped around the conscience and the will escape is not humanly possible. The only hope is a divine miracle. There must be an intervention of the Holy Spirit. God must deliver, and the prayer and fasting of Believers is necessary to break sin’s grip (Matthew 17:21).
Here is the point: we can all slide into the same condition. We must never think we are beyond this. We must constantly guard our hearts. There is no sin we are incapable of committing—that’s right—even the most detestable sin to us right now. We would not recognize ourselves if we were allowed to see ourselves abandoned to the power of sin. There is only one anecdote: the sword of the truth in the capable hands of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, “You shall know the truth and it shall set you free” (John 8:32). But we must remain vigilant to stay in the truth in order to keep ourselves free!
Stay daily in the Word. Stay humble and teachable. Stay yielded to the Holy Spirit.
I love you.
Bro. George
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