Let's take a look at the first picture. To me, this represents the lure of sin. There is an apple and there is a snake. Let's use lust as our example. You are at church lets say and you find someone attractive. That is not really a big deal seeing as attractive people are everywhere. But then lets say you find yourself playing Words w/Friends with this person. Well, the game is innocent enough, right? Maybe not so much.
Let's go on to picture two with the snake, the apple and an arm. You have moved from stage one of sin right into stage two. You have gone from the lure of sin to the grip of sin. Now you find yourself thinking about the person ALL the time. You can't get your mind off of them. You find ways to get around them, even if that is at church and around your very own spouse and children.
Onto picture three, the most creepy of all. The wages of sin. The apple looks so organic, so pure, so alluring, so inviting, so polished, so beautiful. How can something so beautiful mean you any harm. You are only looking at the apple, how can that be hurting anyone? You move onto the grip where you have a check in your spirit but you ignore it. It feels too good to look away now. This is when we have given complete permission to the enemy to have his way in our life. We overlook any wisdom we once knew and give totally in to our own selfish needs and desires. This is where we are filled to the brim with pride. If we would really look at the apple at this point for what it really was and if we were to really seek God at this pivotal point, we would see this picture exactly as it is. We would see that the apple wasn't pretty after all. We would see that the enemy was out to steal, kill and completely destroy us!! But by now, we have given over to our selfish needs and have most likely stopped meeting with Jesus. By now, we have compromised in so many areas that it doesn't matter if anyone on the face of this earth showed you on a big screen the third picture, you would still choose to take a bite. Where are you? We are ALL at one of these stages in our lives. With discipline, we can just look at the beauty of an apple and just say to ourselves it is beautiful. But it doesn't take much to get us to stage two. By the time we get to stage three, the enemy has sunk his teeth in deep. Not just into your soul but into the lives of those around you.
I hope no matter what stage you are at in your journey of life right now, that you will get on your face before God and beg him to deliver you. I pray that you will come clean with someone be it your spouse or a dear friend and above all, God himself. I pray for all of you daily. I believe with all of my heart that this post is directly for someone. I have no idea who you are, but God sure does. HE has YOU on his mind. No one happens upon my blog by accident!
Whoever you are, God hears you and is seeking you out to save you, comfort you and deliver you this very moment!!!!
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