Key scripture – “The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.” (Romans 12:13-14).

Want to overcome the pull of your sinful nature? Then don’t give it the tiniest itsy bitsy foothold of sin in your life!

Half-hearted Christianity just doesn’t work. If you decide to live partly for God and partly for yourself, you’ll end up just living for yourself and doing godly things when it suits you, and those will end up being fewer and fewer.

If you decide that you are only going to give your mind to God, for example, in your quiet time, your time at church and at small group, but you are going to feast on sensual TV shows, music, pornography, cuss, gossip, lie, get drunk, be promiscuous sexually, and anything else that you want to do during most of your free time, then your life will be dominated by secular values and you will lose the struggle with secular temptations.

That is why Paul said, “Make NO PROVISION for the flesh in regard to its lusts”! Charles Spurgeon once said this about small sins, “They are small in their infancy: they will be giants when they come to their full growth”.

If you want to overcome that sin that has persisted for so long in your life, you must be spiritually ruthless—no provision means NONE!

Make this your motto: “If you do not want to fall down you should not walk in slippery places. Keep yourself clean. Keep yourself pure. Watch what you set before your eyes.” There needs to be discipline in your life. Stop giving in to your flesh and living in sin because when you do you are living in darkness.

Job said, “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look upon a maid” (Job 31:1). If we are to have a walk of purity in obedience to God, we must determine ahead of time what our course of action will be. One big decision will take care of a lot of little ones.

Make the decision right now to keep your walk pure and holy for God’s glory. “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light. Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness. Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.”
(Luke 11:33-36).

Don’t fool yourself and think that you are able to live a double life, living for God on Sunday and doing what you want to do the rest of the week. Your sin will be exposed. “For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light.” (Mark 4:22).

Draw near to God and let him cast his light over the darkness that is in you. “Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.” (Luke 12:2-3).

Pray this – Our Precious Heavenly Father, give me the strength and wisdom that I need so that I make no provision for sin in my life. I know I cannot do it on my own. I do not want to be a part time Christian and that is what I am when I live with sin in my life. I know that I cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; I cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons. (1 Corinthians 10:21). I want You to have complete control of every aspect of my life. I know that no sin is hidden from You, not even my secret sins. They are all in the light of your presence. (Psalm 90:8). Father, I am a broken vessel that only You can fix. Let the Holy Spirit guide and show me everything that I need to let go of and turn away from. In the Precious Name of Jesus, I pray, Amen.