It is easy to open the door to allow sin into your life. It is not as simple to remove the intrusive guest and close the door once more. The Israelites had traversed down the road of apostasy to their God. They had rejected God’s standards and given their love to other gods. The result was that they became vulnerable to their enemies. By the time they realized this; it was too late. The Midianites and their allies were now encamped across the land as numerous as locusts.<\/p>\n
Many a person has mistakenly assumed that they could be careless with their walk with God and yet “handle” the consequences. By the time the tide of sin had swelled up to their chin, the people realized they have bitten off more than they could chew.<\/p>\n
There is no remedy for sin and its consequences apart from God’s provision. Only He can address every consequence and free us from the bondage in which we find ourselves. What may have begun as a careless sin in one area of our life soon spreads to every corner of our existence. Before long, the enemies of our soul have invited friends and our life is captivated by the marauding hordes that rob our life of everything that is good.<\/p>\n
If you see the floodgates of sin overrunning in your life, don’t fool yourself into assuming there is still a way for you to escape. Matters will only grow worse over time if you do not cry out to the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Then they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor donkey. For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as numerous as locusts; both they and their camels without number; and they would enter the land to destroy it. Judges 6:4-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13945,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions\/13945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}