LOVE WORTH FINDING 2ND JULY 2025 WEDNESDAY DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE BY ADRIAN ROGERS
TOPIC: Further Than You Want to Go
“Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called ‘Today,’ lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” – Hebrews 3:12-13
Ponder This
There was a man named Larry Waters. He lived about six or seven miles from the LAX airport. Every Saturday afternoon he’d sit in his lawn chair, but after a while he got bored and decided he would do something different. So, he decided he would get some balloons and tie them to his lawn chair so he could float up about a hundred feet over his neighbors’ backyards. He bought forty-two weather balloons, had them filled with helium, and tied them all to his lawn chair. He shot up not one-hundred feet, but sixteen thousand feet. Straight up! Those watching didn’t know what to do. They sent up helicopters. They couldn’t get him down. Larry Waters stayed at sixteen thousand feet for four hours.
That’s so much like us with sin. We think, “I’m just going a hundred feet. I’m just going to do something my neighbors are not doing. It’s going to elevate me just a little bit. And I’m just going to skim over this neighborhood.” But here is the thing: Sin will take you further than you want to go; it’ll keep you longer than you want to stay; and it will cost you more than you want to pay. You think it will get you somewhere, but it won’t get you anywhere close to where you want to be.
- When has sin taken you beyond where you wanted to go? What were the consequences?
- How have you felt the fallout and hurt from sin? How do we deal with our sinful behaviors according to Scripture?
Practice This
Confess to God the sin you are wrestling with; ask Him to help you walk away from that sin.
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