When it comes to your sin, please don’t just treat the symptoms. Invite the Holy Spirit to get out his scalpel and actually heal the problem.
Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada and some of the most difficult, most painful surgeries I’ve been through are surgeries that go deep. But the surgeon had to get serious with his scalpel because my physical problem was that serious. And it’s the same way with spiritual problems. Too often nowadays, though, we try to heal our spiritual wounds “lightly,” as Jeremiah 6 says. We don’t acknowledge the seriousness of indwelling sin, and how to get rid of it. Instead, we minimize it, justify it, try to rationalize it away. We may not realize it, but we are only healing the problem lightly. It may make life easier for a little while, but in refusing to get to the core problem, we become greater victims of our spiritual disease. Friend, when it comes to your sin, please don’t treat the symptoms. Invite the Holy Spirit to get out his scalpel [the knife of his Word] and heal the problem at its root.
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