SAND

I went to the beach twice in one day...and i brought my purse with me both times...

Later on in the week I put my hand in my purse to pull something out but instead i just ended up with sand underneath my fingernails...and i was like EWW gross..but I did nothing about it. A few days after that I pull a pen out of my purse. The pen no longer was working correctly because it had sand in it. I then went to a friends house with the same purse and ended up some how getting sand in her room from my purse...The sand ended up on my sunglasses, in my wallet, on my cell phone, in my lip gloss and countless other things.

You are probably thinking this girl is crazy who cares about sand in your purse go take it out and stop being lazy...and thats just right i am being lazy im not taking the sand out of my purse...because i keep forgeting its there...and when i remember its not a convienent time to take everything out of my purse remove the sand from each object and then empty my purse of the remaining pile of sand...

When i took my pen out to take notes at church it made me mad that it wasnt working correctly. I was think my goodness i just wish this pen would do what it was made to do...but because i allowed sand to enter the pen it was no longer working...It made me think thats how sin is...I allow sin in my life and it first starts off as just a minor annoyance and eventually effects all parts of your life. The sand didnt just effect the bottom of my purse but it effected everything that was in my purse and everywhere i brought my purse. Like sin does if you allow a little sin in your life it begins to effect every aspect of your life...if you are to lazy to take the time and remove the sin from every aspect of your life ... in purse terms your going to have a broken pen, scratched sun glasses, and sandy lips from your sandy lip gloss and friends who are annoyed cuz they now have sand in their room...silly right...no not at all if we dont remove sin it not only effects the one area of our life it begins to effect all areas of our lives...and it even effects those around us...so stop being lazy and clean out the sin from your life...and i will too :)

2 Peter 3:14 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by HIM in peace without spot and blameless.
instead of focusing on our sin lets get it out of our lives and be focused on the LORD!!!