Have you ever tried to personify sin? You know, make it tangible or something relevant to your life? I feel like Lecrae does it very well in his song, “indwelling sin”. Attached is a video for the song some guy made on youtube. This song is sick because it really shows the battle between us and sin. It is not something that we beat in a day, or if we “beat” it that it’ll never resurface in our lives. Sin is something that is always pursuing our hearts away from God, and I think the more we are aware of that, the more we will be able to fight it off. It’s clear how much God hates sin, so it makes sense that it would battle for dominance in our hearts and lives. The song is basically a dialouge between two guys, one who has surrendered his life to Christ, and the other who doesn’t understand and wants him to go back to his old ways. The believer is trying to explain that he doesn’t want that sin that was taking over his life, how it never satisfies him. He is doing everything he can to get rid of it, and taking steps to avoid it in the future. He talks about all the temptation that he faces, and how giving in “no way honors God who’s ruling sovereignly.” which is one of my favorite lines. Sin means we have to make a conscious effort to turn our backs on God. We have to love something apart from Him, more than Him. To me, that is a scary thought that we can be so easily tricked and deceived by a world who doesn’t get it. Our lives and hearts have been transformed, and I think that’s why we are so shameful of sin. Someone who is not following Jesus may not have the same convictions, so we do our best to justify our actions as “better” than them. Wrong. We’re both in the same boat, in need of salvation, the only difference is that we know where to find it. Maybe we should be asking ourselves questions as to why we’re not sharing that.
So how do we fight sin? How do we rid our lives of it? Well one, we will never rid ourselves of it, so lets throw that option out the window now. However, we can fight it, so that our lives will honor God. We have to be aware of it. In his song, Lecrae hits on a sensitive issue, pornography. He basically says that it’s not one day, “i think i’ll look at porn, oh crap I’m addicted.” He explains that things lead to it, so if we can avoid certain situations, we can ultimately avoid the sin that it can lead to. ”A little BET, late at night, thats like a little crack”, “I see how you be tryin’ to be, BET at night becomes addiction to pornography”. The point he makes is amazing. Our sin starts way back with the little decisions. The situations we place ourselves in lead to temptation or God. Where are we placing our hearts? Towards God, or away from Him, losing the ongoing battle to sin every day.
Enjoy the song
Cheers,
-Brandon
