Today’s Thought “Without Anesthesia?” G. Ward

Mark 9

⁴³ And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.

 

To be clear, this is not sanctioning self-mutilation, so, put the knife up. Instead, this portrays the seriousness of ridding sin in one’s life and while further defining of what that truly represents may be the million-dollar question for some, they’ll need to know it equals a speculating posture in where morality emanates (cf. Judg.21:25). This was/is never meant to be a guessing game. Moreover, we were never meant to govern ourselves; particularly in a world where nothing belongs to us (Ps.24:1) and whereas God’s sovereign superiority remains the only truth, HIS intent is that all created would follow and failure thereunto is sin. Believers, through confessing their sins to Christ, have been given a new nature and that spiritual gauging imposed in us, absolutely hates the old nature, denying its habitual practice of lawlessness (1 John 3:4) and while many practitioners of doing their own thing persists, an eternal doom awaits. May their change be urgent (*2 Pe.3:9).