Some secret sin has long been
eating its way to the heart!
(J.R. Miller)
"YOU have placed our iniquities before YOU--
our secret sins in the light of YOUR presence!"
Psalm 90:8
It does not take a rifle-bullet
to destroy a life. Men have died
from little scratch-wounds.
Some shepherds once saw
an eagle soar out from a crag.
It flew majestically far up into the sky,
but by and by became unsteady in
its motions, and began to waver
in its flight. At length one wing
drooped and then the other,
and the poor bird struggled
vainly for a moment, and
then fell swiftly to the ground.
The shepherds sought the fallen
bird, and found that a poisonous
little serpent had fastened itself
upon it while it rested on the crag.
The eagle did not know that the serpent
was there. But the reptile gnawed in
through the feathers, and while
the proud monarch was sweeping
through the air, the serpent's
fangs were thrust into its flesh,
and the eagle came reeling
down into the dust!
This illustrates the story of many
a human life. For a time they seem
quite promising; then suddenly they
struggle and fall. Some secret sin
has long been eating its way to
the heart, and at last the proud life
lies soiled and dishonored in the dust!
We need to be ever on our watch
against these treacherous and
insidious perils, these little, secret sins--
which, unperceived, work death in the soul!
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