A SINGLE SIN

“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.”–Jeremiah 5:25   A single loose thread, if neglected, can result in the ruin of a garment. Even so, a single sin can bring about the downfall of the most devout Christian.F.B. Cobbe put it like this: A single sin, however apparently trifling, however hidden in some obscure corner of our consciousness,–a sin which we do not intend to renounce,–is enough to render real prayer impracticable. A course of action not wholly upright and honorable, feelings not entirely kind and loving, habits not spotlessly chaste and temperate,–any of these are impassable obstacles. If we know of a kind act which we might, but do not intend to, perform,–if we be aware that our moral health requires the abandonment of some pleasure which yet we do not intend to abandon, here is cause enough for the loss of all spiritual power.
To conquer sin you must confess it!