#temper trap

https://x.com/melons4louis/status/2041258739680870800?s=46

Yep. I just posted that, too. He's wild for doing this. Might as well just play Still The One after the next show.

Sin is like an aggressive snake. If we don’t proactively attack sin, it will prove deadly. John Owen famously warns Christians,

“Be killing sin or it will be killing you.”

Though Christians cannot eliminate sin in this life, Owen encourages us to diligently fight sinful desires and put them to death. Owen outlines four dangers sin poses for the believer:

Being hardened by sin’s deceitfulness,

God’s temporal discipline,

Losing peace and strength, and, finally,

The danger of eternal destruction—that by continuing in sin, one may prove he was never truly converted.

Each person has a unique temperament and nature that makes certain sins harder to kill. Owen reminds us,

“A proneness to some sins may doubtless lie in the natural temper and disposition of men.”

We are not less guilty for committing the sins to which we’re prone, but when we know ourselves, we know the areas of our lives where greater self-discipline is necessary;

"But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified" (1 Cor. 9:27).

Knowing your great guilt, you can long for deliverance from sin. Why is this important? Because “longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that hath a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the thing longed after.” Indeed,

“unless thou longest for deliverance thou shalt not have it.”

It’s hard to stop water once it bursts into a flood. So too it’s hard to stop sin if we allow our desire for it to grow. We’ll be most effective in putting sin to death when we “rise mightily against the first actings” of our sinful desires.