cockuhroaches

sin never seems to go away. i want it to. most people want it to, even if they don't realize it. but through all of these conscious and subconscious desires, sin still persists. it's like a cockroach. it lives, even thrives, through war, famine, destruction, and all attacks against their environment. crushing sin, like crushing a cockroach, often leaves a mess. and completely expelling them from a certain area usually takes difficult and calculated work. you can't just start smashing away. you have to find its nest, its origin. you have to make sure all of its other hiding places are known to you as well. then you have to strike, methodically and persistently, taking extreme care to kill each one of its disgusting relatives. sometimes a few get away, and you cannot let this discourage you. you have to keep up the attack, or the ones that get away will soon overtake your entire home. the hope is that someday, someday soon, they will all be gone. we will have new homes, with no issues. we will live carefree of safeguarding anything, because we will be wrapped in the secure light of our heavenly Father. His love will fill, and overfill, all of us. His glory will be all around, without a single cockroach in sight.