I hate ants in my house. I notice a tiny one crawling around in my kitchen. It doesn’t take long until a line of ants are marching across my counter to the tiny drop of sugar left after breakfast. Getting rid of the ants is no easy task. In California the laws requires pesticides to be so watered down that it may take months before the poison is built up enough in their system to kill the ant's nest.
Poor choices are like the drop of sugar. We enjoy pleasing our sweet tooth, but it doesn’t take much time until a long line of consequences encroach in our relationships.
We think we have not change since eating the forbidden fruit. But everyone around us is painfully aware of our behavior. Outsiders notice and begin to relate to us differently. Without intentionally setting our minds to destroy it, our reputation is deteriorating over time.
Peter said, “having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation” (1 Peter 2:12).
We won't be able to sit on the fence forever. We will eventually lose our balance.
