12 Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. 13 “Make level paths for your feet,” so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone
We have been talking about sin and how serious it is. Sin cost God His Son Jesus to have to leave Heaven and take on human flesh which was beaten, pierced and nailed to a cross, yet we toy with sin and don't resist it to the point of shedding blood, which as it relates to us means taking radical sometimes painful steps to avoid sin.
In this passage verses 12 and 13 give us advice on how to avoid sin and he tells us three things. 1) get strong - we need to be in the Word and prayer daily and even memorize scriptures that help you avoid sin. Here are a few verses that might help
"Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." Eph. 4:29
"Direct me in the path of your commands,
for there I find delight.
36 Turn my heart toward your statutes
and not toward selfish gain.
37 Turn my eyes away from worthless things;
We have been talking about sin and how serious it is. Sin cost God His Son Jesus to have to leave Heaven and take on human flesh which was beaten, pierced and nailed to a cross, yet we toy with sin and don't resist it to the point of shedding blood, which as it relates to us means taking radical sometimes painful steps to avoid sin.
In this passage verses 12 and 13 give us advice on how to avoid sin and he tells us three things. 1) get strong - we need to be in the Word and prayer daily and even memorize scriptures that help you avoid sin. Here are a few verses that might help
"Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." Eph. 4:29
"Direct me in the path of your commands,
for there I find delight.
36 Turn my heart toward your statutes
and not toward selfish gain.
37 Turn my eyes away from worthless things;
preserve my life according to your word" Psalm 119:35-37
"I will be careful to live a blameless life.
I will walk in my house with blameless heart.
I will set before my eyes no vile thing." Psalm 101:2,3
The second thing this passage tells us in the avoidance of sin is make your path level. In other words don't put things in your life that will trip you up. If you are trying to avoid lust or coveting, don't download certain apps or watch certain channels. If certain people trip you up, make new friends that won't put stumbling blocks in your paths. Is sin so serious to you that you would leave your job or move to a different city to avoid it?
Lastly, mend broken relationships. God has called us to love people not dislike them, gossip about them, or plot getting even with them because if that is going on, sin has us in its grips. Do you hate sin enough to make the first move and do all you can to reconcile?
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