I cut up that apple for the girls’ breakfast the other day. Like most people, I removed the seeds, but it got me thinking: I’ve heard that apple seeds have a tiny bit of the poison arsenic in them. Not completely sure if that’s true, but it definitely makes me want to keep my girls from eating apple seeds! I don’t want to find out how much poison is too much!
There are other things we should have zero tolerance for as well. Throughout the Bible, leaven (yeast) is often used as a picture of sin because of how easily it spreads. 1 Corinthians 5:6-7 says “Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened.” Yeast isn’t a poison but what it represents sure is!
What’s leaven in your life? What’s something you think of as small but you can see it’s spreading and messing up a lot of areas of your life? I’ll admit, I had at least 3 areas of sin I confessed to God and talked to Him about already while working on this devotional. I’m glad I can now move ahead, overcoming those temptations with God’s help.
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