Bible Discussion Thread

Sin doesn't wave a banner in our faces and proclaim itself with flashing neon lights and a marching band . If it did it would b very easy for us to spot it and avoid it . The serpent was a subtile creature , it mixes the truth and a lie and slides up to us gently . It's a seducer . It creeps into our thoughts and words and then justifies itself to us and lulls us into thinking we r not doing anything that's too bad . It doesn't matter if we....and then one step down leads to another step down . Before we know it we r sitting in the dark by ourselves wondering where we went wrong . We must focus on getting the basics right . If we cant get the smallest simplest things right then we have no chance with the big important stuff. How deep in the world r we ? How do we view and speak to others ? How much do our possessions mean to us ? How much time do we spend thinking about the Bible and the words in it ? How often do we thank God for His blessings towards us ? Sin is like a slow growing vine , it slides around us slowly and gently and wraps us up in what feels like an embrace but it's really a death grip . It's a giant green anaconda and it will crush the life out of us if we don't fight it anew each day . Get the basics right and fight every day in order to not allow our own sinful inclinations to get the better of us . If we stop fighting we die.

Very wise analogy