Most big things don't start out big. The greatest accomplishments in the world often started with one person's vision. The greatest inventions in the world began with a single idea of an inventor. Your greatest achievement in life, whatever it may be, began with one step.
But there's a dark side to big things too. Bad things, a/k/a sin, start out small as well. Most criminals begin with what we consider small non-violent crimes. Many drug users begin with what are considered to be gateway drugs. Most affairs begin with a flirting glance or flirtatious email. We don't leap right into the deep end of the pool of sin.
Think about a ship setting sail from the coast of America to somewhere overseas. If it began to set sail headed due North everyone would know immediately that it were off track. But if instead of heading at the exact angle of East that it is to sail, it's only a few degrees off. That may not seem like a big deal, but over the course of the thousands of miles it has to travel, that slight mistake becomes magnified when it arrives but it miles from its desired destination. That's how sin slowly infiltrates our life.
Sin is the devil's greatest tool in separating us from God. He causes us to turn a blind eye to it, denying that it exist or that we are committing it. He causes us to ignore the warning signs of it allowing us to continue to snowball out of control. Sin comes in many shapes and sizes. James 4:17 reads, "So whoever knows what the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin."
If you have to pause to think about if something is right or wrong, odds are it's wrong. Don't let small sins get you off track and separated from God.
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But there's a dark side to big things too. Bad things, a/k/a sin, start out small as well. Most criminals begin with what we consider small non-violent crimes. Many drug users begin with what are considered to be gateway drugs. Most affairs begin with a flirting glance or flirtatious email. We don't leap right into the deep end of the pool of sin.
Think about a ship setting sail from the coast of America to somewhere overseas. If it began to set sail headed due North everyone would know immediately that it were off track. But if instead of heading at the exact angle of East that it is to sail, it's only a few degrees off. That may not seem like a big deal, but over the course of the thousands of miles it has to travel, that slight mistake becomes magnified when it arrives but it miles from its desired destination. That's how sin slowly infiltrates our life.
Sin is the devil's greatest tool in separating us from God. He causes us to turn a blind eye to it, denying that it exist or that we are committing it. He causes us to ignore the warning signs of it allowing us to continue to snowball out of control. Sin comes in many shapes and sizes. James 4:17 reads, "So whoever knows what the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin."
If you have to pause to think about if something is right or wrong, odds are it's wrong. Don't let small sins get you off track and separated from God.
#SundaySchoolRecap
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