Acts 24:25 Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

Once again sin is like yeast in convenient packaging. Yeast now comes in dry cubes, easy to store and use. One of the drawbacks of “mother dough” is that it continually needs to be fed. It has to be used frequently, demanding much time and attention. So it is with obvious sin, which consumes and destroys life.

Insidious sin is craftier, more cunning. As the dry yeast packets are easily stored for use only as desired, packaged sin is waiting and available and takes little effort to indulge. We laughingly ignore the title “Sin City” because we love the food, theater, sporting events, and variety of offerings that attract large crowds. We may be strong enough in character to resist those other temptations, but the title was well earned. Many go just because “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.”

Packaging isn’t limited to cities like Las Vega, New Orleans, and Atlantic City. It isn’t limited to “Spring Beak” venues either. Just because adult book stores have been pushed out of growing family neighborhoods does not mean they have died and gone away. There is the internet. Free and easy access to the most prolific and ensnaring of all sin types, the voyeur.

Covetousness begins with the eye, looking upon the pretty package. Those packages always look attractive and easy to open. Traps are easy to get in and painful to get out.

Exodus 34:12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

Galatians 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

We know the dispersion nature of yeast. We know the dispersion nature of sin. What we do not often think about is mother dough. Really good yeast comes from a single source that is cultivated and is an old source. Some mother dough is handed down, outlasting the original starter.

Small portions of mother dough are broken off to feed many batches to bake many loaves of bread. The original dough is then fed and nurtured to continue the process. Such is the nature of the most obvious sin. Heroin and cocaine are no accident. Pornography is very intentional. The boldness of these addictions is so flagrantly in your face that they do not fear any opponent. Drug wars haven’t worked and porn is now legal in most places.

The cure for these sins is found one victim at a time. Many are being helped, but the lost outweigh the saved. Such is the nature of sin and salvation. The lost are saved one soul at a time. It is an individual choice. The cure is singular.

Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Thank God for my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.