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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
It Only Takes A Little...
Hey everyone. I wanted to say real quick that 1 Corinthians 5:6 stood out to me. Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? Now, in a lot of 1 Corinthians before this, Paul was pointing out a couple flaws in the early church. Mostly though he was writing to the people who wanted to ignore all the problems in the church. See, the members of the church didn't know that when no one has a problem with all the sin going on in the community, it effects the entire church, not just that one person. The cause of the entire church is being put down. Paul didn't expect them to not sin; they went through their own struggles with sin every day. He was talking to the people who would go out and sin on purpose and then not give a second thought about it. Those people and their actions were undermining the purpose of the church. This is where the verse comes in. Just a little bit of yeast will make the entire batch rise. The entire batch is affected by it; every little bit. So when they sinned on purpose and then couldn't care less, it make the new forming church really chaotic. Paul was telling everyone that this had to stop of else the church wouldn't be created in the way it was supposed to. But that doesn't mean we can stop sinning on purpose now that the church has been formed. We have to keep on truckin, and give our best to not give in.
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great point, joe! even if we may not realize it, our actions (and especially our sins) affect SO many people. the other day, someone told me that the whole of the human race is like one big spider web. when you stick one hand, or even one finger, into a spider web, what happens? it falls apart. similarly, sometimes the smallest of actions can have the greatest of effects. i've been working on "monitoring" my actions and thoughts a lot more lately...it's a challenge, but i'm working on keeping that spider web intact! haha, okay i hate to be so cheesy, but i hope you get the point of my analogy.
ReplyDeleteso...main point: a tiny sin here and there isn't bad, but sometimes we, as imperfect humans, forget that there are others around us who may be affected by our actions; and now thinking about the positive side of this...a tiny, tiny act of goodness can mean so much to other people. go out of your way to make someone's day. every moment matters, so make the most of it. (:
also, take a look at this quote; i think you'll like it:
“what we do is less than a drop in the ocean. but if that drop were missing, the ocean would lack something.” ~ mother teresa
Dog, Joe, you nailed it. I love the phrase sinning on purpose and not thinking twice about it. That is the big difference! I sin often but I am convicted often.
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