DAILY READINGS: Numbers 28; Proverbs 24; Luke 2:1-21
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them. Joshua 7:21a
Here is the inevitable downward spiral along the path of sin. I saw, I coveted, I took, I hid. Aachan’s demise started with a look and what he did could not stay hidden. It is the same old story—sin and a refusal to listen to the word of the Lord. We know its pattern well. It is the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. Don’t toy with sin—it will eventually be revealed and end up hurting you and others.—Mark Kolchin
Sin is a monster of such awful mien,
But to be hated needs but to be seen,
But seen too oft, and familiar with face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. —A. Pope