Killing and Attacking Sin

I just thought of a great illustration for killing sin in our lives.  When you go to kill a sin in your life, you have to attack it like killing a fly in your house.  When you go to kill a fly, you can't be half willed about it.  You can't be double minded about it.  You can't at the same time want the fly to live and to die.  You have to aggresively kill the fly in order to accomplish the task.  You have to hate the fly, in order to kill it. 

It's the same way with sin in our lives.  We have to hate it before we can kill it.  You have to despise it's presence around you just as much as you might despise a fly in our house.  You have to aggressively kill it and not be double minded about it.  You can't at the same time want your sin to live and to die. 

Here is why we should hate sin.  Sin taints the purity of our lives.  It blocks us from God.  God never builds a wall with us but we can build a wall between us a God with our sins.  Any time we love anything in the world, or think about anything in the world, more then God, we are sinning. 
For me I think of my recent addiction to Amazon.  Us women sure like to shop.  :) It seems like an excusable sin because Satan lets us lie to ourselves that we are just providing good things for our family.  But do the people in your family REALLY need all the extra things you buy for them?  Probably not. 

It's funny how many clothing items we think we "need."  In Bible times I think people only had like 3 outfits and that was it.  I don't know for sure but possibly.  But these days if we don't have like 20, or 50, :) outfits hanging in our closet for us AND our kids, our flesh throws a fit. 

But a funny thing about shopping, or any addiction in your life, is that the more you do it, the more you want to do it.  That is why you have to kill it.  You can't let it grow, or like a weed, it will quickly take over the whole front lawn of your soul.  If you let sin grow without uprooting it and killing it, it can kill you. 

 You might think that the next object you buy, or that next cigarette you smoke, or the next beer you drink, or the next cake you eat will make you happy, but then you find that it doesn't.  You wonder why it doesn't fulfill you.  Sometimes it makes you happy, but the joy is very short and momentary.  Mostly you know something is wrong, because it doesn't fulfiill you very much, like you hoped it would.  Deep down we all know we won't be the most happy we could be until we are serving God.  We all know, in our spirit, that anything in this world will prove to be fleeting and worthless.
The more we think about ourselves, the more miserable we will become.  The more we indulge the flesh, the more miserable our flesh will become.  The more we say yes to our flesh, the more demanding, and impossible to please, our flesh will become. 

So just kill sin.  Don't give any place to it in your mind and in your heart.  Always remember that only God can fully satisfy your soul.  And pray for strength and wisdom every day to resist whatever it is that your flesh gets drawn to. 

May God bless you all! ;)