A friend came by to visit with us yesterday and we had a wonderful time catching up on life and such. After she left, I was closing the front door and there in the hall I saw a spider web! For those of you that know my OCD tendencies, you know I was embarrassed to find it and hoped she didn't see it but knew she probably did. It was past lunch time and I didn't want to bother with it then so I warmed up my "yummy" Lean Cuisine and started several other projects. Later I walked in the hall and saw it hadn't moved. The web was indeed still there, but STILL chose to find other things to do. I even mentioned it to my family, but still, it sat there. I then in my mind thought " Well they see it now, why can't THEY get it?".
So many times in my Christian walk, a flaw or sin comes into my life and I choose to ignore it or think it's not very big or blame other people. It's a little like looking in a mirror and seeing chocolate on the side of you mouth and doing nothing about it. Some sins can be seen and others are hidden, but we still know they are there. They tend to grow like the spider web also.
22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
23Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror
24and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. James 1:22-24
Did I get the spider web? Did I MENTION I was OCD. Yes, of course I removed it! It did eat at me until I did though.
So many times in my Christian walk, a flaw or sin comes into my life and I choose to ignore it or think it's not very big or blame other people. It's a little like looking in a mirror and seeing chocolate on the side of you mouth and doing nothing about it. Some sins can be seen and others are hidden, but we still know they are there. They tend to grow like the spider web also.
22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
23Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror
24and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. James 1:22-24
Did I get the spider web? Did I MENTION I was OCD. Yes, of course I removed it! It did eat at me until I did though.
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