Thought For Today - May 13, 2025
What Is Our Besetting Sin?
By: Robert A Searles
A child of God ought not to be a fornicator, nor a whoremonger, nor
have a mind filled with garbage and unclean thoughts and attitudes; but
neither should he be covetous, nor an idolater. All these sins are
grouped together and seem to carry the same weight of importance with
God. One may frown on a person who has pre-marital or extra marital sex
relations, but that same person may be given to covetousness and idol
worship, and an idol is any thing that occupies the place in the heart
and mind that God ought to occupy.
"But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be
once named among you, as becometh saints; neither filthiness, nor
foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather
giving of thanks." Ephesians 5: 3,4.
You who do not have a mind filled with filthy thoughts, and do not
gossip, and do not tell dirty jokes, and look with contempt on those who
do, what does occupy the place in your mind, that these forbidden
things occupy in the mind of others? Is it covetousness? Is it a longing
and desire for things that God has not seen fit to grant you? Do you
spend all your time and energy thinking of the things that you don't
have , but would give anything to possess? Or is your mind occupied with
thoughts of God and his righteousness and his coming kingdom? And are
you busy giving thanks for all the blessings that God has already
bestowed upon you?
"For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor
covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of
Christ and of God." Ephesians 5: 5.
Beware dear Christian brother or sister, and I speak to myself as well
as you, covetousness and idolatry will bar you from the kingdom of God
just as much as fornication and adultery will.
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