Cold Sores

one of the things i hate most are cold sores. they suck. they hurt. they prevent me from doing one of my favorite things...eating. i have one right now, and it just is horrible.

this got me thinking though:

a cold sore is so small. it is barely noticeable (sometimes). it can make some of the easiest things the most painful thing ever. eating, something that we do every day, becomes so complicated and painful because of this tiny little sore that comes around just out of no where. talking, another thing that is a daily thing that we do to communicate to others, hurts so bad because the sore is rubbing against your tooth. its so small yet it causes so much pain.

sin, is a cold sore. big or small, its a cold sore. we go about our lives daily, sometimes we develop a cold sore in our lives that can be debilitating. something so small, that seems almost invisible, can bring us to our knees in pain. sin has the power to do this in our lives.

one of the ways you can contract a cold sore it sharing something that a an infected person had, like a drink, or even kissing. same with sin. we tend to fall into sin because we are sharing in the same things that others are doing. following in their sin. small or big. sin is sin. a cold sore is a cold sore.

on webMD it says there is no cure for a cold sore. if you get one, you will always get them. the virus stays in your body for life. sort of sucks. unlike a cold sore, sin doesn't have to have this affect with us. there is a cure. it is Jesus Christ.

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

We are washed clean of all sores. of all sins. we are without blemish when we come in front of Jesus, confess, and and acknowledge him into our lives. with Easter coming up, it is the perfect example of Him dying on the cross for our sin, and then resurrecting 3 days later to defeat death. his death cured our sores.

AMEN

random fact: Many hotels and hospitals in China don't label the fourth floor. Why? The pronunciation of "four" sounds like "death".