Deuteronomy 7
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God Who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations, and repays to their face those who hate Him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates Him. He will repay him to his face.
Deuteronomy 7:9-10
I think it is safe to say that we all rather like the first half of that quote (Dt. 7:9), but we’re not so comfortable with the second half (Dt. 7:10). Yet it is exactly the same God Who both loves and judges. The question for us is which side of the fence we are on. We can repent and cling to Christ and be found righteous in Him, or we can cling to our sin. There is no middle ground.
Our experience tells us, though, that making a decision to follow Christ does not instantaneously transform us into perfect saints who never sin again. (If such were the case, then most of the Epistles in the New Testament would never have been written, as there would have been no need to address problems in the Church.) But just because sin tries to cling to us does not mean that we should just accept it and invite it back in. No, we need to instead be all the more ruthless in rooting out sin in our lives and to get rid of it.
And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.
Deuteronomy 7:26
So, is there some abominable thing that you keep bringing back into your house? Is there some sin that you are holding onto or even cozying up to? It’s time to see it for the detestable thing that it is. It’s time to kill it.