Over the weekend when my dentist was closed I began to experience the worst pain of my life. I tried to treat the pain myself by following every wives tale I could find on the Internet for a toothache. I held cloves in my mouth, chewed on garlic, swished salt water, swished baking soda water, rubbed coconut oil on my gums, and more. I could get the pain to subside briefly, but it quickly returned with a vengeance that brought me to my knees in pain. Relief only came after a course of antibiotics, muscle relaxers for my jaw, steroids, a root canal, and some pain killers. After I regained some semblance of normalcy, God reminded me the physical world relays truth from the spiritual.
Sin is a spiritual infection. We may think it starts small and we may have even acknowledged our sin, but God commands us to repent and eradicate it completely. Romans 6:12 says, "Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires." Like my cavity, sin can kill if it is left unattended. What begins as 'little' can become deadly. God tells us to cast off all that entangles us. We need to treat sin as the deadly infection as it is. If not, then before we know it we could easily find ourselves in terrible pain and trying whatever we need to for relief. We need to make sure we fight the good fight and armor up as our antibiotic constantly. After all, failing to fight the spiritual infection may or may not cost us our physical life, but it will definitely cost us the life Jesus died for, life to the full.
In His Name,
Live Blessed
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