Secret
sin is almost a common phenomenon in the life of an average Christians and the
damaging effect is unquantifiable. There
are endless list of secret sins and many of them are not easily discovered by
people around while some of them can easily be detected through symptoms. Secret sin makes one live a double life which
has great effect on one’s social interaction and intelligence.
First, one tends to live different types of
lives to different people and this makes one's character very
inconsistent. I once live under the
bondage of secret sin for a long period and those who know me think I was
brilliant but in actual sense my brilliance and intelligence was curtailed. I
had lived in the sin of masturbation for a long time. There has been debate
about the legality, morality and spiritual implications of masturbation. Some
people justify it, some criticise it, while some are indifferent to it. First as
a Christian it affects our worship towards God. Ones desires are always or
often carnal depending on how often one masturbates. One is mostly concentrated
on the opposite sex and the visible erogenous part of the opposite sex. One can
easily be aroused by anything that connects to the opposite sex from panties,
bra etc. and this is a madness of certain degree. At the extreme case of the
spectrum is the obsession for pornography; films, pictures etc. One live in the
constant desire of fulfilling ones desires and imaginations and even some
married couples justifies their watching of porn by saying they are doing it to
be able to develop skill and right techniques for their partners but it is
getting the skill from the wrong place because most times one of the partner
especially the male becomes insatiable and start looking for experience,
experiment and exploit outside the marriage bed. It is a killer disease and
thus robs one of intellectual assets as one is constantly focused on things
that do not really matter.
If
one was a book person or one is skilled in something, one’s desire and specialty drops because the appetite to do things and do them properly drops.
The desire to read and read properly drops. These are not signs that are easily
visible but the person involved deteriorate with time and even such people
might become fearful of things they have competence in and have easily handled
in time past. One’s social intelligence drops as ability to communicate ideas
suffers because one runs between alternating emotion of stability and
instability and this can lead to total emotional breakdown or even madness.
When
one is a sinner one does not need to cover his sins or most of his/her sins
thus social capital and intellectual capital lose are minimal but as a
Christian one suffers those capital lose as it takes effort to sin and
superhuman effort to cover ones tracks and in the process of covering ones
tracks one live a double life and one get exposed to attack as one sometimes
go beyond the boundary of spiritual maturity all in the name of appearing
as spiritual to men. A thief is known as a thief but a Christian thief will
take effort, energy, emotions, and intelligence and such effort could have been channeled to more productive, rewarding and satisfying activities. And the
only thing that keeps us bondage under secret sin is lust of the flesh; the
desire to be in Christ and be in the world at the same time. To enjoy the
benefits of the two divides which often leads to pressing self-destruct buttons.
Different attitudes follows such as malice, hatred, lies, deceit, envy,
arrogance, unreachable spirit and these are attitudes people find easy
defending because they are intangible sins. Accepting Christ allows the seed of
life to be planted in us but one needs to give the seed of life room to thrive
by giving it the enabling environment.
The illusion that once saved everything is settled creates the
complacence of living in self-indulgence which can cumulate into total
stubbornness. Such person flaunts spiritual knowledge or even knowledge of the
bible while the inside is totally in a state of decay. Accept Christ that the
seed of life might be sown in your life but let the seed of life germinate to
terminate all other evil works and such nurturing involves reading the word, meditating
in it and finally doing the word. The next is prayer and worship which always
takes us to throne of grace. When we cannot do any of praying, reading,
meditating and doing the word as well as worshipping, there is definitely a secret
sin lurking somewhere
Peace
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