Attraction to Sin

Bible Reading: Joshua 7:10-26

Key Verse: Verse 21 – “When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.”

Key Words: When I saw 

The path of sin never changes.  Achan said, “I saw, I coveted, I took, I fell.”

Several years ago our family visited Niagara Falls.  It was spring, and ice was rushing down the river.  As I viewed the large blocks of ice flowing toward the falls, I could see that there were carcasses of dead fish embedded in the ice.  Gulls by the score were riding down the river feeding on the fish.  As they came to the brink of the falls, their wings would go out, and they would escape from the falls.

I watched one gull which seemed to delay and wondered when it would leave.  It was engrossed in the carcass of a fish, and when it finally came to the brink of the falls, out went its powerful wings.  The bird flapped and flapped and even lifted the ice out of the water, and I thought it would escape.  But it had delayed too long so that its claws had frozen into the ice.  The weight of the ice was too great, and the gull plunged into the abyss.

The material possessions of this world can entrap us if we become attached to them.  Like Achan we will fall and our fall not only affects us, but those around us as well.

                                                                                                        Dr. Mike Rouse

What to do:  

✞Remember, the first duty of every soul is not freedom, but to find its master.  If Jesus is your Master, He alone will attract you.