Make sin your friend and invite a prick in the eye - Numbers 33-36

If we fail to rid sin in our lives we will pay the consequences.  This is the truth that God told Moses about the nation of Israel and their tolerance for sin in their midst.  Note the following:

Numbers 33:55

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that those whom you let remain of them will become as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which you live.

When we engage in relationships with the world we take the chance of falling into their sin and having their sin affect us.   God has sanctified us and wants us to be pure.  However, we can't do that by allowing sin to camp at our door.   The nation of Israel will eventually fall into sin and be disciplined by God.   It starts out very simple - they allow sin to live next door.   Our ability to stat pure for God is founded in our ability to stay away from the things that will draw us into sin.  We get to comfortable and cozy with sin.   We are no longer offended by it and no longer run from it, but rather allow it to sit in our lives and befriend us.   That is the first step to falling into sin and stepping away from God.   Rid sin today.   Paul called it the "mortification of sin" in our lives (Romans 6).   We must kill sin and be kind to it.