Thoughts for another day

July 8, 2008

Today's verse: Gen. 4:7. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Here is an important statement of God regarding sin and that too right at the time it had just begun after that great sin of Adam, which doomed all men. What is interesting is that God is not saying that sin isn’t there; rather God is telling that it is there but that man can become its master.

From the time Adam fell, sin crept in through the back door as it were. Its impact and presence in the world gradually increased. Sin is a great warrior of stealth; it maneuvers gently into your life, easing itself gradually and taking root firmly inside of you. Whether it be as simple as lying or bragging, you slowly tend to disregard the fact that it’s sin and accept it as a way of life. As you move on, its speed increases while it ruins you within like cancerous cells, eating away at human tissues with their malignancy; spreading rapidly and destroying the whole body in no time.

My friend, fight with sin. The tempter may either seduce you with the plum ness of the sin or move you to such anger that you do not care what the consequences are. At times he clouds your mind so deftly that you hardly are aware of what you are doing. And then you fall. At times it is even difficult to rise from such a fall. I have heard of people having fallen doing what prima facie seems so silly and we exclaim, ‘how could he do it, is he such a fool?’ Despite it strive to fight sin.

Our struggle with sin intensifies the closer we move to God. I don’t know about you but as for me, I believe that no matter how much I fall, if I look up to whence my help comes, His Grace is sure to flow into the situation and elevate me into His presence. Till someday, sin has no power over me for I know that my Lord has conquered sin and death and that His Word will remain…If He has said I can become its master, so will I, even if I am broken and can hardly rise.