Chain Repair

I don't wear much jewelry, but I imagine if you have a necklace of your mother's and the chain breaks, you'll take it to a jeweler and have it repaired. Even if it has no monetary value, it means something to you, so the cost is worth it.

But if you were a slave with your neck chained to a wall and the chain broke, you wouldn't fix it, would you?

But, oh we do! We do.

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All sin is addictive, but there are what we call "besetting sins," those sins you go back to again and again. Maybe it's an actual addiction, like drugs or pornography or overspending. Maybe it's verbal assault against the people you love or gossip or self-protective lying or just not trusting God. All sin.

The sins that, no matter how hard we try, seem to have us chained to a wall.

The good news is that Jesus Christ broke those chains. Shattered those chains.

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1

Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses. Acts 3: 38-39

We're set free, and yet over and over we go back to our sin. The chains are broken and yet we sit in the dark and refashion them with all the care of a jeweler working with gold.

Why? Is your sin that valuable to you? Does it mean that much to you?

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. Romans 6:22

Jesus has set us free, and if that weren't enough, He also gives us eternal life. Staying stuck in sin will only make you miserable, and you'll be isolated and in the dark, because that's where sinners live. That's not the life He wants for us.

Stop fixing your chains. They're not worth it.