Almost anyone who has even been physically addicted to something will tell you that it all began with a small, innocent step-just one taste or one little moment of exposure. Then the experience gradually took over his mind and desires and body, until the addiction absorbed his attention day and night without relenting.
Maybe this was your experience or perhaps still is. And physical addiction isn't the only kind of consuming entrapment; any kind of sin or wrong desire can lead to emotional and spiritual enslavement. What is so devastating about bondage to sin is that it progresses slowly at first, allowing you the luxury to rationalize and justify what you perceive as your growing need. By the time you understand what is occurring, your problem has progressed to a serious condition - probably fatal!
King David experienced this process in his life in his sin with Bathsheba, a transgression that began when he first saw her bathing on her rooftop (2 Samuel 11). When he realized how far he had gone, he immediately repented, confessed his sin to God, and experienced God's grace anew. David had an advanced understanding on how sin operate. (CS)
He prayed: "Direct my steps by Your Word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me.
Redeem me from the oppression of man, that i may keep You precepts."
(Psalm 119:133-134)
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