Unleashed

Last night I went to a Ladies Bible Study meeting.  There were several of us and we had to travel a bit so we carpooled.  I rode with a neighbor that lives only a few streets from my home. 

We were the last to arrive.  When we did arrive, we heard some bad news.  One of our own had a mishap and was in the emergency room.  We immediately prayed for her healing and direction for the doctors. 

As she was enroute, her car overheated.  She pulled over to the side of the road to investigate.  She lifted the hood and saw the steam and decided to open the radiator.  That was the worst mistake.  When she removed the lid, it released the intense heat causing burns on her arms and face.  She experienced extensive burns to her arm and her hand.  Her friend immediately drove her to the local emergency room. 

She was examined, cared for and given medications and instructions.  She will have to follow-up with a burn specialist as the injuries were serious. 

It got me to thinking how sin is much like that steam.  It lurkes around and lurkes around and often we surpress it or run away from it.  Then suddenly, if we give in to it even one inch, it is unleashed and creates a serious situation for us.  The consequences can be damaging. 

Often we go along and don't consciously think about sin until one day it just stops us in our tracks.  It demands our attention and the choice is ours.  We can open it up and experience the negative effects and consequences, or we can pray our way through it and spend time in God's Word until we have the strengh to walk away. 

Don't take the lid off of sin, don't let your curiosity trap you.  Stay steady and surround yourself with pure things in life.  Yes, you may see the steam of sin begging to get out and pour in to your life but remember, sin unleashed carries consenquences.

In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.  Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.  Romans 6:11-12