Today's Devotional

 

 March 6, 2009

                                                                                                                     

Subject:  Sin Is Hazardous To Our Health 

Titus 2:12 "Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world."

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My wife had gone to the store and picked up a few items.  She returned home and noticed that she had not been charged for a shirt that she bought.  She contemplated how inexpensive the shirt was, but nevertheless decided that she should return to the store to let them know that she still needed to pay for the item..  The lady scanned the tag on the shirt and realized why she had not been charged.  To my wife's surprise, the shirt had been recalled (I'd never heard of that for clothes) because it contained lead.  I guess it was in the coloring or just the fabric itself.  The store clerk stated that she should have confiscated the shirt to prevent it from being sold and she had simply overlooked it.  

I wonder how many times in our lifetimes we "save ourselves" simply by living righteously.  Yes the word of God exhorts us to do so, but do we really understand that it is good for us?  

My wife could have simply said to herself, "well it was the store's fault" and she could've worn the shirt for as long as she desired and all the while, she would have been "contaminating herself."  Well isn't that what living in sin does to us?

Today we simply need to realize that, like the shirt, sin is hazardous.  Perhaps it is not always hazardous to our physical health, but surely to our spiritual health and that's more important anyway.  Think about that as you go about your daily tasks.  Ask yourself if you're trying to get by with what you see as some small sin, because just like my wife's case, the cost of the shirt may have been minimal, but the cost of sin is always high.  

Carlen