Sin in the Name of Happiness

I can’t even count the number of times I’ve discussed sin with someone and they’re response/justification is “Well at least no one got hurt” or “Yeah but it was a lot of fun.”

How tempting it is to settle with sin due to the fact that no one seemed to visibly get hurt right away. Wouldn’t it be nice if that was the way sin operated? These statements assume that the pain and sting of sin come immediately, they assume living a life of sin either has immediate consequences or none at all.

It’s a very dangerous assumption to make.

Living a life of sin eats away at you. It changes who you are, not instantaneously, but bit by bit. Satan’s goal is that you would be content with mediocrity, and as long as “no one gets hurt” you would continue to live a life with little to no spiritual growth.

And that’s what happens. Admit it.

You rarely meet someone who’s constantly justifying sin in one area of their life while at the same time seeing incredible spiritual growth in others.

It’s not easy to walk with the Lord, in fact your flesh will raise hell against it (pun intended). However, the perfection of Christ on the cross gives you everything you need to stand firm.

So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. – Ephesians 4:17-24