That One Sin | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Sep 23, 1908

That One Sin.

A SINGLE match in the hands of a little child kindles a great conflagration, and a city is in ashes. A little spark ignites giant powder, and a great plant is in ruins. A little opening in the dam was suffered to go unnoticed, and the deluge of waters broke through, flooding all the vale, and sweeping many to destruction. A little leak in the noble ship fills her hold with water, drowns her fires, and finally sends her to the bottom with all on board. The lonely match, the one spark, the only opening, the single leak, were all such little things, but destruction and ruin attended their train.

The one cherished sin may seem in your eyes a little thing, but destruction is behind it. One cherished sin is a seed in fertile soil, which will bear abundant and baleful crop. O, do not harbor it in your heart nor permit it to remain in your thought for one moment! That one sin will pervert your standard of right. It will unconsciously lower every moral principle. The man who admits blackness into his soul where white light only should dwell, perverts every spiritual color sense.

Sin is an enemy. It may be clothed in the insignia of royalty or the rank of the high of the earth; it may pose as a necessity, pure pleasure, or expediency; but if condemned of God, it is sin, a deadly enemy to the soul, an enemy that will be satisfied only when the soul perishes eternally.