That little indulgence, the small undercurrent of bitterness, the well-masked dislike of our neighbor-are these really such a big deal? "I'm just not quite ready to pull that out and look at it," we decide, " and God's grace covers it anyway." But such thinking is dangerous. All of our sins are really much worse than we think. There are no little sins in God's eyes, and to think otherwise is to abuse his grace. When the Lord puts his finger on a particular sin we are tolerating, and we choose to continue in it, backing up our choice with the truth that "where sin increased, grace abounded all the more" (Romans 5:20), we are abusing grace.
God, who is both loving and holy, will not allow us to continue the abuse for long. Sooner or later the weight of unrepentant sin presses down heavily upon us. If we aren't ready to deal with the sin, we are going to look everywhere else for an explanation about that pressing.
"I'm just irritable this week because my hormones are out of whack"
