Rotten Apples
- Martina Z.
- Jan 8, 2024
- 2 min read
Rotten Apples
I CORINTHIANS 5
When reading this chapter the verse that stands out to me is verse 6b
"A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump."
1 Corinthians 5:6b NKJV
The phrase that kept coming to my mind, rotten apples.
When going to the grocery store and buying apples I always do the same thing. I pick up an apple and examine it.
If it has a bruise I move on to another one. All it takes is a small bruise, one small imperfection is all it takes to start the process of rotting.
I’m not sure why I never thought about sin that way.
It starts small, you would barely even notice but you ignore it and it just gets worse.
In this chapter Paul is talking to the Corinthian church about moral sin, a man has been with his father’s wife.
I want to believe that this man didn’t just wake up one day and decide to do this.
The devil is sneaky, he comes like a thief in the night. We start out with small things before we move onto the big ones.
Thinking about myself and what I am dealing with right now I would have to say my struggle is my attitude.
A negative attitude and feelings of helplessness can create stress,
it depletes chemicals in your brain required for happiness and damages your immune system.
It can actually decrease your life expectancy.
I can try to keep my bad attitude to myself but eventually it will come out in words and actions.
The thing is we don’t exist in a vacuum, we are in a bag with other apples. What we say and do doesn’t only effect us, it effects people around us.
1 Corinthians 15:33 says:
"Be not deceived: evil communications corrupts good manners."
1 Corinthians 15:33
1 Corinthians 5:7 says:
"Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump,"
2 Corinthians 5:7
If we don’t purge the sin in our life we will not even notice when we start to bruise ourselves and those around us.
Prayer: Jesus thank you for your word. I am grateful that your mercies are new every morning. Search me Lord, show me if there is anything in me that needs to be purged. I don’t want anything to separate me from you. I don’t want to be a negative influence on anyone around me. I want to be a light leading other to you.
I feel this post today. While my attitude as well can be very much a roller coaster, (seems to vary hour by hour at times) the sin I struggle with most is control. Pride.
The feeling that after all I have seen and all the blessings God had given me I somehow still think I can do better and control my circumstances.
So crazy and so exhausting.
This is something big I am working on in 2024. Trying to focus on the comforting thought that I am not qualified to control it all. I can’t see all the outcomes and and plan for every nuance. But I know the one who can! I need to let go and let God…
Todays post seems like a word fitly spoken, to me:
”A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold In settings of silver.“
Proverbs 25:11 NKJV
I want people to want what I have because what I have is so wonderful, it's a life changing force, the Spirit of the Living God!!
But if I'm walking around like a bad apple, who would want that! I love the prayer today, it touches right where I need it to touch, my heart!