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Limbs.

January 25, 2012

“It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.”

Matthew 18 : 8

As life continues on, I find myself reading this verse and slowly engaging with it more and more. The terrible places my feet take me and the horrible things my hands do.

They are destructive extremities.
Some days they do a lot more harm than good. Yet never ever would I even come close to thinking about hacking them off!

Why? Is it because I would look weird? Maybe… Or is it that I am so caught in my own sin that it appeals to me more than eternity with GOD?!

That feels disgusting to write. Father I am sorry for deciding to indulge in the quick fixes, the easy outs and for just being plain stupid.

Have mercy on your Son. My desire is to do good things with my hands and feet. You have given me them for a reason, may I embrace that and start honoring tou with them. I love you, Amen.

As I read over my devotional, I realized that cutting off my hands and feet wouldn’t change anything. That is not the solution to my problem. There needs to be something pure and beautiful to strive for and in turn that would make my sin shrink before my eyes. You can’t uproot a tree and expect beautiful nice dirt to magically appear. You need to put in the work in order to make sure that it is filled with the RIGHT soil.

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