BREAK - Split or crack.
SMASH - To break to pieces.
Like most people we have things in our lives
that are bad for us, those things need to be given a break. Not a break
from doing the wrong or sin, but a break to end
it. In the Old Testament in the book of Leviticus (15:11-12), if a
sick person entered their kitchen: "A clay pot that the person touches
must be broken." This was done to stop the spread of a possible disease.
What can we draw from this as a lesson today? Not a new set of
dishes....this is a specific teaching of a moral infection. Let me speak
a language we all know. Let's talk about love. Romantic love is good
and God-given, but if we direct it toward someone other than that of our
marriage partner, it becomes contaminated love. That "clay pot" put a
name on it and recognize it as evil and sinful, and it must be broken
(Colossians 3:5). We can become worldly. We are to identify what has
become defiled and smash it. You have to
break it to a point that it cannot be put back together. Don't take the
clay pot and hide it somewhere to only pick it up: from the attic,
under the kitchen sink, hidden in a corner of the garage, or behind a
locked door. You still have it intact and you still have access to it.
Take that "clay pot" out and destroy it.
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