Stop Sinning!

 "In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood." 

                                                                               Heb. 12:4

  " I'm only human"

  "I come from a dysfunctional family"

  " Please be patient with me, God's not finished with me yet"

  "It's hereditary"

   "I was born like this"

  "It's part of my personality"

  "Stop judging me"

  "You should see how far I've come"

  "You sin too"

  "God's grace is sufficient"

   "Everyone does it"

   "There are a lot of worse sins. It's not the unforgivable sin."

        What's your go to when you sin? Jesus said, "If your right hand causes you to sin cut it off", or "If your eye causes you to sin pluck it out". Jesus took sin seriously. Do you? Jesus had to die because of sin and for us to continue  to choose to sin, if nothing else, shows we are not on the same page as Him. Jesus tells the woman caught in adultery to go and sin no more and that was even before the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that gives us the power to say "no" to sin.

      If an angel came to you one night and said, "The next time you look at pornography your eye will fall out", I think you would never look at it again. If he told you, "The next time you gossip your tongue will shrivel up", I think you would get rid of your telephone.

      Have you struggled against sin to the point of shedding blood? I don't think so.