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It really is a tough process, but when we are living with sin in our lives we can never have peace. Whether it's gossiping, complaining, laziness, bitterness, gluttony or it's addiction, adultery, or not tithing- sin is sin. And when it is unconfessed and allowed in your life, you are not in close relationship with Jesus.
"This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. 1 John 1:5-10 (ESV)
"If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell." Matthew 5:29-30 (ESV)
"So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin." James 4:17 (ESV)
And I highly recommend you read Romans 6- the whole chapter speaks about this very thing. Here are a few verses, but seriously read the whole thing!
"What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?" Romans 6:1 & 2 (ESV)
"Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions." Romans 6:12 (ESV)
Are you walking in the light?
Do you have fellowship with other believers?
Are you obeying sin in your life, or are you obeying God?
Cut out the sin in your life before it consumes you. If you are a Christian, then Satan can't pluck you from the hand of Christ, BUT you can become ineffective and a hindrance. And you will fail to give God the worship and glory that you were created to give.
Love in Christ,
Alyson
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