I was listening to a message yesterday, the topic was sin.  The speaker talked about how our culture is breaking down, how sexual sin, homosexuality, divorce,  abortion, are all things that are rapidly becoming more prevalent and acceptable.  But he made an interesting point, although many Christians take a firm stand on these “big sins,” we need to guard ourselves in the same way from the less visible, sins that destroy our spirits, unforgiveness, gossip, lying, jealously, and the areas of compromise that gradually build strongholds in our hearts.

Mark 2:16
When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"  17On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Lord, I do not want to be like the Pharisees and look at the great sinners around me and ignore my own weaknesses.  God give me the humility to come before you as one who has been forgiven and saved only by your grace, one who continually needs your grace to walk in obedience.  Give me compassion and your love for the lost.  Amen

Anna Estrada