October 5
“If your hand or foot causes you to sin,
cut
it off and cast it from you.
It is
better for you to enter into life
lame
or maimed,
rather than having two
hands
or two feet, to be cast
into
the everlasting fire."
Matthew
18:8
What is the Lord really saying here? There is no record
in the Word of God where Jesus tells someone to actually cut his foot
off. The woman caught in adultery was not told to cut her foot off.
The woman at the well who had five husbands was not told to cut her
foot off. What they were told is "go and sin no more."
Jesus
is making the point blatant and shocking in order to convey the UTTER IMPORTANCE of removing from our lives whatever causes us to sin. The
alcoholic is not to go to bars "just to be with friends but not
to drink." When he has turned away from alcoholism, he needs to
part with his drinking buddies. He needs to cut off that which caused
him to sin.
The man repenting of pornography must stay away
from the porn sections of bookstores and even get rid of his computer
if that is what causes him to sin.
One can't flirt with sin
thinking it won't trap us. IT WILL.
The Lord doesn't ask the
impossible from us. What he wants is our desire to be like him, to be
pleasing to him. The first step in achieving that is to remove from
our lives all that causes us to sin.
Repentance will be like a
very heavy load being removed from your back. Peace will come. Joy
will come. You'll wonder how on earth you could have chosen sin
instead of the peace and joy of being right with God.
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