Has there ever been something in your life that you have had a hard time letting go of? It might be a bad habit, possessions, control, sin, etc. It may even be something that you got yourself into because you were following other people. Sometimes instead of really thinking we just follow what everyone else is doing.
I remember when I was young. I really can’t remember my age but I am guessing 5 or 6. We had gone to visit my grandparents. My grandpa worked as a foreman in an orchard at a fruit farm. My grandparents were allowed to take so much fruit for free each year but they were not fruit people. So they would give their share to us. We would go down every summer to bring back fruit to can.
This one particular time we went to visit we had taken our next-door neighbor with us, he was like a grandpa to me. My grandpa wanted to take our neighbor around the orchard in the jeep to show him around. Of course, my brother and I wanted to go with them. There were a couple of others there as well. My grandpa was driving and the neighbor was sitting in the passenger seat. The rest of us climbed into the back of the jeep, which was open. It was a farm jeep, more like getting into the back of a pickup.
As we were driving along through the apple orchard others were reaching out and pulling off an apple. We were headed up this hill when I seen this really nice looking able and I reached out to pick it. I was young enough that I could not get it to come off like the older ones had done. But I didn’t let go either. It all happened in seconds. The next thing I knew, I was out of the jeep onto the ground.
I don’t remember if I really got hurt but I did begin to cry because it scared me so bad. And it scared my grandpa too, because the hill we were going up, the jeep could have easily rolled back. This was especially true because my grandpa did not know what had happened at first and that I was out of the jeep.
This reminded me how sin is. Sin looks so attractive. Sin is also enticing. Just like I could not resist that good-looking apple, sin can be hard to resist. When we grab a hold of sin it draws us right out of the safety of the “Jeep” (Jesus presence). We fall and get hurt. Even if we grab out for the enticing sin, the second we realize that it is wrong we need to let go of it immediately so we are not pulled out from the safety of Jesus.
Dear Father,
Sin can be so enticing to us. Help us, as we surrender to You, to see sin as You see it. Help us to draw back from sin. The devil can disguise things so well. We need Your eyes of discernment.
Thank You that if we do fall we have an advocate with You, Jesus Christ, and we can come to You and You will forgive.
In Jesus Name,
Amen
Surrender all to Jesus today, keeping so close to Him that you recognize the disguises of Satan.
Love you all.
Share an experience you have had that shows how sin can draw us in.