The truth about sin...

So, I'm reading Lies Women Believe and the Truth that Sets Them Free by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. REALLY good book. I don't think Francis Chan's book, Crazy Love, convicted me as much as this one does.

Anyway, in the chapter titled, "Lies Women Believe... About Sin," I was blown away by the following story/analogy:

"When the Romeros first got Sally as a family pet, she was only one foot long. Eight years later, she had grown to eleven-and-a-half feet and weighed eighty pounds. Then on July 20, 1993, Sally, a Burmese python, attacked fifteen-year-old Dereck, strangling the teenager until he suffocated to death.

In one fatal moment, the creature that had seemed so docile and harmless was exposed as a deadly beast. The “pet” the unsuspecting family had brought into their home, cared for, and nurtured turned on them and proved to be a destroyer. In a sense, no one should have been surprised at the turn of events, for in the end, the python merely did what was its nature to do.

So it is with sin. Though it may entertain us, play with us, sleep with us, and amuse us, its nature never changes. Inevitably, it will always rise up to bite and devour those who befriend it."

This is SO true. We think we can handle a little sin in our lives because it's "harmless" or "feels good" or [insert seemingly good excuse here], but in reality NONE of it is good. It's ALL dangerous. We must do what the Bible says and flee all sin (Jeremiah 51:6; 1 Corinthians 6:18). It's the only way to remain safe.