It’s never just one thing

I have a tendency to talk about the struggles I have with sin as isolated instances.  “I really blew it the other day when I…..”.  Or when I’m with an accountability partner I’ll talk about “I’m really struggling with…..”  But the truth is it’s never just one thing.

One of the most frustrating things about my life is that sin saturates so much of my life so easily.  In other words when sin raging loose in my heart it never remains contained in one area of my life. For example when I handle anger incorrectly, I also tend to struggle with lust, I eat too much and my desire to lie and hide increases.   Sin works that way. It's never just "this area of my life." It pollutes completely.  It’s like an infection.  It might start in one part of your body but if you don’t deal with it, it travels through the whole body.

I write this in part because this has all recently become real clear to me and I want to record it.  After all in some ways this blog is a log of my life.  But I also share it because I’m hoping someone else will read it and not be fooled (like I was for a long time) into thinking “If I just didn’t struggle with this then….”  Hey, it’s never just one thing.  Sin is poison and even though it kills us we tend to love it’s taste.