Sin is like poison
“After I did it once, it was almost just like, `Now I’ve screwed up. I might as well just do a couple more,”‘ she recalled. “And then after that, it just kept going and progressing and progressing. That’s how it works with sin. You feel like you have already made the mistake. You can’t take it back so you just might as well keep on sinning.” - Keri, formerly known as porn star Aria
This quote was taken from an LA Daily News article last year. You can read the full article here:
Keri’s reaction was like yours and mine when we mess up. But here’s the great danger of sin: it’s deadly. Let’s think of it as poison. If we were to ingest poison, we wouldn’t be content to continue taking more of it in lesser amounts. We wouldn’t even be safe to stop - we’d want to get some medical help to counter and treat the poison that we already have in us! The same goes for sin. We can’t get better from the effects of sin without taking some ‘medicine’ so to speak. We need something that is stronger - something that will heal us.
We can’t get better on our own. We need the power of God to heal us. Sin is above all deadly to our spirit. It numbs us to the effects it has on us. It blinds our eyes - we don’t even see it happening. And then before you know it, we feel trapped and can’t fight or find our way out of its grip.
God’s word is like a medicine to your soul. The liberating and awesome truths that are revealed in it will heal you if you believe what God says. Keri realized that porn was killing her from the inside out. She needed healing. She found it. Now she’s telling her story so that others may know that God is real and He’s stronger than any sin. Where sin abounds, GRACE abounds even more! That’s your victory in Christ over sin and death!
But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”
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