Numbers 33:40-35:34, Luke 5:12-28, Psalms 65:1-13, Proverbs 11:23
What God said to me – Have you ever gotten something in your eye that you couldn’t get out? It’s so small and yet it hurts so much – your eye is constantly watering and every time you blink, you feel it. It gets “gunky” and blurs your vision so you’re constantly wiping it so you can see. What about a pain in your side or neck – whether it’s a pulled muscle or a pinched nerve or a rib out of place, every time you move it hurts. It hurts even to lie down so you never really rest well. Did you know you can get spiritual pricks in your eyes or thorns in your side when you allow sin to remain? I told Israel that when they went into the promised land, they needed to destroy all of the idols and places of worship of the people in the land, or they would be drawn into their sins of idolatry and immorality. They would become like pricks in their eyes and thorns in their sides, always causing pain, always causing discomfort and never allowing them to rest and fully possess the land I had given them. When you allow sin to remain in your life, even when you don’t succumb very often, it will become like that for you – a prick in your conscious – a pang of disappointment and defeat in your soul – never being able to fully enjoy the rest and peace of being wholly devoted to Me. You must tear down all the idols of your old life once and for all. You be holy because “I AM” holy.