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Ezekiel, chapter 19, verses 12 through 14, but the vine was plucked up in fury,

cast down to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit. They were stripped off and

withered. As for its strong stem, fire consumed it. Now it is planted in the wilderness,

in a dry and thirsty land, and fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots,

has consumed its fruit. So there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling.

So when you hear this imagery, if you picture it, it's a potent picture of how the sinfulness

of man leads to the destruction of man. Sin always, always leads to destruction. Sin does not ever

lead to life. Sin does not ever lead to good. It promises these things. It promises so much in ways

that it never delivers. So I just want to encourage you to think today, even as I think in my own

life. How am I tempted? How are you tempted today to sin? In what ways are you tempted to think

that sin is good for you? That doing, thinking, desiring, speaking, acting in a way that is not

in accord with God's Word would be good for you? And let's pray together, God, save us from the

deception of sin. God save us from the deceit of sin and the destruction that comes through it.

Oh, God, we need your grace continually all day long left to ourselves, left to myself. I

wander from you. We wander from you. We need your grace every day. We need time with you every day

to refocus our hearts and our minds on you and your Word. We need your Word to meditate on day and

night that we might be careful to do according to all that is written in it. So God, we pray for

salvation from sin today. God, we pray for pure minds and hearts, for pure desires, for pure

and holy lives. We say today, we want to be holy as you are holy. We trust your ways are better

than our ways. You are wiser than we are. Your Word is what leads to life, not our ways. So God

help us all day long to turn from our ways, to trust in your Word, to follow your Word by the power

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