Entangled
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Our Daily Bread Ministries
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🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Watermelon vines had overtaken my garden. They snaked across the stone path, climbed the fence, and worst of all tried to choke my favorite vegetable plants. I knew the garden wouldn’t thrive unless I took action. So, one evening I went to work uncurling tendrils from stems and leaves. When the coils grew back, I kept removing them until the plants finally matured and produced plump tomatoes and shiny peppers.
Sins like greed, lust, and hate can overtake our lives like the vines that tried to dominate my garden. Left untended, the seed of a wrong thought may develop until it controls our desires and actions. The Bible says it’s possible to be so consumed by a particular sin that we’re held back from growing spiritually. This is the “sin that so easily entangles us” (Hebrews 12:1).
The writer of Hebrews encourages us to “throw off everything that hinders” so that we can “run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (vv. 1-2). To break free requires that we acknowledge we need help to handle the sin. This can be difficult if we’ve convinced ourselves and others that it’s not a serious issue.
Once we sincerely admit the problem, Jesus welcomes our prayers of confession and forgives us immediately (1 John 1:9). He can show us how to change our life patterns and through the power of the Holy Spirit help us to overcome the bondage that prevents us from flourishing
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| 0:00.0 | Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. |
| 0:06.3 | Hebrews 12, verse 1. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:14.1 | Entangled was written by Jennifer Benson Schultt and read by Rochelle Trubb. |
| 0:22.2 | Hebrews chapter 12, verses 1 through 3. |
| 0:26.5 | Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off |
| 0:32.1 | everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, |
| 0:41.1 | fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfector of faith. |
| 0:46.5 | For the joy set before him, he endured the cross, scorning its shame, |
| 0:51.9 | and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. |
| 0:55.8 | Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners |
| 0:59.3 | so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. |
| 1:06.3 | Entangled, written by Jennifer Benson Schultt. |
| 1:11.2 | Watermelon vines had overtaken my garden. |
| 1:14.6 | They snaked across the stone path, climbed the fence, and, worst of all, tried to choke my favorite vegetable plants. |
| 1:22.4 | I knew the garden wouldn't thrive unless I took action. |
| 1:26.5 | So, one evening, I went to work uncurling tendrils from |
| 1:30.5 | stems and leaves. When the coils grew back, I kept removing them until the vegetable plants |
| 1:37.2 | finally matured and produced plump tomatoes and shiny peppers. Sins like greed, lust, and hate can overtake our lives, like the vines that tried to dominate my garden. |
| 1:50.0 | Left untended, the seed of a wrong thought may develop until it controls our desires and actions, |
| 1:59.0 | like a sin that so easily entangles and holds us back from |
| 2:02.9 | growing spiritually the writer of Hebrews encourages us to throw off everything |
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