The Covering
In one of my favorite Steve Camp songs the chorus is "I know some day I will be free, the weight of sin will be released, but for now He covers me." This past week I have been VERY impressed by the bondage of sin. Impressed in that I am amazed at how firm a grasp that sin can have on one's life. And it doesn't really matter where the sin comes from. There are really three places that we "get" our sin. One place is from Satan. The tempter certainly enters our lives from time to time to try to trip us up. Scripture shows us in the book of Job that God does sometimes allow Satan (and his hordes) to work against the believer. And as Jesus told Peter, "He would sift you like wheat." We're not really a match for the devil. He's crafty and he's had thousands of years of practice as the accuser of the brethren. But we also get wrapped up in the world. Sometimes it doesn't take a visit from Beelzebub to knock us off track. The
