A fib, a little white lie, omitting the truth. These all seem harmless and all of which we have likely been guilty. But isn’t eternal life with God more valuable than the sins we commit?
“42Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone where hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. 43And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.” – Mark 9:42-43 (ESV)
Sin is our nemesis. We are confronted with it daily and it is all too easy to fall into that sin. Even the “little” sins in our lives, the fibs, the little white lies, and the omission of the truth, all of them are sins that keep us from our Lord and Savior.
We have a choice when it comes to sin. We can choose to avoid sin. We do not have to fib. The little white lies do not have to come from us. We can always tell the whole truth.
Will we always be completely wholesome, no, we are human. But, what we can be is repentant. Our hearts should be repentant at all times. The sins we commit may not be known, so we should repent continuously for those sins we are ignorant of.
When we repent, we effectively work to cut off the offending part. God does not want us cutting off our body parts to remove sin. What He does want from us is to avoid sin and when we do, we should be repentant. Our sin should not keep us from living the Christ filled eternal lives that God has in store for us.
What sins are in your life that you could cut out? Are you repentant, or able to be repentant for those sins? Isn’t eternal life with Christ more valuable than the sin in your life?
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