One day as I was getting prepared to start the day I happened to look down a saw a pretty little moth walking across my bathroom floor. My thoughts were, oh it is so pretty, and I will leave it alone. A few days later I noticed the moth seemed to have friends. As I watched them I noticed they were going under my walls. We had been remodeling so I didn't have any baseboards on yet so the dry wall was not quite to the floor. The moths were going in and out under the wall. I thought it strange and decided maybe I should keep a watch on what these little guys were doing.



I enjoyed watching the moths each day walking in and out under the wall. They didn't seem to be causing any problems so I decided to ignore them.

A few days later when I was in my bedroom which has a common wall to the bathroom I noticed a moth walking up my wall. I checked the bathroom and discovered there now were many moths walking about. They were now becoming a problem.

I bought some bug spray for moths and treated the bathroom and my bedroom. Thinking the problem was solved I ignored it again only to my dismay to find the moths were not only in my bathroom and bedroom but also had traveled to my kitchen cabinets. I had to begin to really get serious.

I bug bombed the entire house. The moths remained. I bug bombed again using a much stronger dose. The moths remained. I now not only had moths but they were laying cocoons, which were hatching out with little white worms that were crawling up my walls. The moths were everywhere. We found them in our clothes, our cabinets, in the kid's toys, under the walls, everywhere.

One night as I lay in bed I couldn't sleep so I turned the light on to find the most astonishing sight. My walls were crawling with little white worms. Now it was WAR! The sprays didn't work; the bug bombs didn't work. Even when I closed off each little area and treated it separate didn't work.

I decided to conquer by smashing them. Each night the children and I would lay for them with the lights out and wait. Then we would turn the lights on and attack! We had discovered the worms came out at night and made little cocoons that hatched into the moths. If we could conquer the worms, we had the moths.

Night after night we fought our war against the moths. Finally, we had won ? so we thought.

We decided to move to a new house and sold our home. Everything was gone over carefully so we wouldn't move any hidden moths with us.

Sitting in our new home enjoying a movie one evening a moth flew by. I immediately got up and attacked. Just one moth, I thought, nothing to worry but I wasn't going to let it by. I had learned my lesson.

My daughter went upstairs and later came back downstairs and asked me to come look at her room. She had been busily enjoying fixing up her new place so I thought she wanted to show it off. When we walked in we were met with a shock. Worms, worms everywhere crawling up her walls. We had brought the moths with us.

Again we declared war! Today we will occasionally see a moth that has come in from outside. My husband shakes his head as I attack relentlessly until the moth is conquered. You see he was not with us from the beginning. He figured a little moth wouldn't hurt anything.

It took us seven years to totally conquer the moths. We still watch.

One day as I was taking a shower the Lord and I were talking. He said to me so clearly, "remember the moths", yes Lord, how could I forget. "They were for a reason. The moths are like our sins".

The Lord began to show me a very special lesson, which I wish to share with you.

1. At first the moths seemed harmless

2. They were pleasing to the eye

3. They were interesting to watch

4. They began to multiply

James 1:14-15 ?But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.

We begin to fall deeper and deeper into sin.

The moths begin to affect those around me by getting into the kids things and the kitchen. Just as when you walk in sin it will begin to affect those around you.

The moths took over. We find ourselves in bondage and wonder how and why. What happened?

Trying to ignore the moths didn't work. Hidden sins will be revealed.

Trying to use someone else's method didn't work ? sprays (prayer fixes)

Sometimes we go and have people pray for us or go to hear different evangelist to get a quick fix. But only when we decide to take control ourselves we will not find peace.

I had to find the source.

Go back to the beginning. Find the sin. Ask God to reveal to you where you blew it.

Walking in compromise - I let the moths stay thinking, oh they are just little moths

2Co 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?

. General friendships

. Business partners - no co-workers with partners

. Dates

Polluting your environment? Remember those little sins can get out of control fast.

So often we come in for prayer to be freed from the affects of sin but then we go home and still keep our idols. - Unclean movies, unclean books, our speech, hidden sins.

Surround yourself with God's word. The scriptures tell us to Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness

Let your time be God's timing. Make God your priority instead of daily chores

satan will rob you of your time by the cares of the world. Put God first and he will multiply your time.

No compromise

Luke 11:36 If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle do give thee light.

Luke 6:46-48 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Whosoever come to me, and hear my sayings, and do them, I will show you to whom he is like:

He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

Where are your treasurers?

Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Do you take the easy way out or do you attack the source with all your might by seeking God and His righteousness. Allow Him to show you the what, the where and the how. Do not rely on yourself. Rely on Him. You cannot do it on your own. We need His patience, His compassion.

Don't stop seeking purity. Because we have conquered the things of the past does not mean it won't sneak in another way. It could be through a Christian friend. It could be in a situation. Keep your eyes on Him. He will give you discernment.

Do you have ?moths? in your life?