One of the greatest dangers in the Christian life is becoming comfortable with a sin we once resisted. When a person repeatedly commits a particular sin without genuine repentance, the conscience may gradually become hardened. What once produced godly sorrow may eventually become an accepted habit.
Some believers have stopped resisting dishonesty, lust, anger, jealousy, bitterness, unforgiveness, and other ungodly behaviours. Instead of repenting, they make excuses for their actions and gradually lose their sensitivity to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. The Bible warns that sin is deceitful because it can gradually harden the heart and lead a person away from God.
As we await the return of Jesus Christ, we must never make peace with sin. We should continually examine ourselves, repent of every known sin, and seek God’s grace to overcome temptation. The sin you have stopped fighting may be the very sin that is gradually destroying your spiritual life. Let us resist sin and pursue holiness.
Scriptural Readings for the Day
Hebrews 3:12–13 (KJV) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Romans 6:12 (KJV) “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.”
Prayer
Heavenly Father, forgive me for every sin I have tolerated or stopped resisting. Deliver me from the deceitfulness of sin and keep my conscience sensitive to Your Word. Give me the grace to overcome every ungodly habit and walk in genuine repentance and holiness as I await the return of Jesus Christ, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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