Infection
The other day my missionary friend and I were talking to the students in the electrical shop at the high school in Georgetown, Saint Vincent. As my friend, Mr. Seymour addressed the class of some fifty students I noticed a poster on the wall at the back of the room. This is what it said:
“Infections start from a scratch, get first aid.”
It made me think of the little things we allow in our spiritual life as well. If we don’t judge them and take care of them according to the Word of God, they take root and become bigger problems and bigger sins. That’s why believers need to daily follow the instruction recorded by the Apostle John, who wrote, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
When we judge and confess the little sins in our life they never spread and become big sins. Don’t let the infection of sin spread; take care of it through God’s remedy, and He will “cleanse you from all unrighteousness.” In other words, you will be kept from going any further in the wrong direction…the infection won’t spread, it will be cured instead.
