Lies women believe……..about sin
All Eve did, when you think about it, was take one bite of something God told her not to eat. What was the big deal? The big deal was that God said “Don’t,” and Eve said “I will.” That one, simple act of eating something God said was off limits produced enormous consequences - in her body; her mind, will and emotions; her relationship with God; and her marriage. That one “little” sin influenced her husband to sin, which resulted in the entire human race being plunged into sin. Like a rock thrown into a pond, the ripples caused by sin go on and on. If only we could see that every sin is a big deal, that every sin is an act of rebellion and cosmic treason, that every time we choose our way instead of God’s way, we are revolting against the God and King of the universe. As John Bunyan put it, “One leak will sink a ship; and one sin will destroy a sinner. The way to see the thruth about sin is to see it in the light of who God is. When we gaze upon the brilliance of His untarnished holiness, we become acutely aware of the hideousness of our sin. Because the puritans walked in close communion with God, they cultivated a sense of the horror of their sin, no matter how insignificant it might seem to others. This perspective comes out in the kind of prayers they prayed:
Unmask to me sin’s deformity,
that I may hate it, abhor it, flee from it…
Let me never forget that the heinousness of sin
lies not so much in the nature of the sin committed,
as in the greatness of the person sinned against.
