Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Mark 7:17-23
by: Aubrey Appel.
We must stop blaming external circumstances for the sin in our lives. External occurrences make it easier to cultivate pride and other sinful things, but in the end, they are always generated by a choice that we make. Are you aware of the choices you are making? When you make a choice to let pride have a nice, cushy La-Z-Boy in your heart, you are allowing yourself to be corrupted. Pride takes over, and Jesus no longer occupies the La-Z-Boy-he has been pushed off onto a wobbly stool in the corner. Pride is only vanquished when Jesus occupies the throne in our hearts.