SIN
Today's reading: 1 John 1-3

"Dear children, don't let anyone deceive you about this: When people do what is right, it is because they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous. But when people keep on sinning, it shows they belong to the Devil, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy these works of the Devil." 1 John 3:7-8 NLT

I, on occasion, have to take a spiritual inventory.

I have to spend time at God's feet.

On His examining table.

Before His X-ray.

Sitting before Him, listening to Him speak to my condition.

Sometimes it involves being patted on the back.

Sometimes, it doesn't.

There are times He has to speak to my heart about my tendency to return to certain sins.

Sins that come easily to me. Sins that are comfortable to my being. Sins that He died on the cross for, and yet I choose to repeat on a regular basis.

You see, He came to defeat those tendencies in my life. To break the chains that leave me tied to repeat offenses. To separate the ties satan binds me with.