Matthew 18:8 “If your hand or your foot causes you to sin cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.”
These have always been difficult verses for me to wrap my heart around. I don’t think, I could ever cut off a limb or gouge out my eye. Today, as I am reading them, I am thinking about relationships that lead me to sin. People that when I am with them I end up in gossip, complaining……. When I used to drink I had “friends” that were drinking buddies. Those are the people, I had to cut out when I needed to stay clean. It is hard to cut off relationships. It is better to be alone with God than to be in bad company.
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