Wiggle Room

“Give me just sixteen inches from the breakfast room. I can rearrange this room into a full bathroom with a larger shower and space for the laundry,” the contractor told me after he looked at our utility room with a small bathroom and 24” x 24” shower. The result was astounding.

The space we gave up in one place made a huge difference in another with no wiggle room. Sin has the same result in our lives. You give it less than an inch, and it impacts and changes your whole being. From what do you borrow to gain the wiggle space? Moral character, prayer time, worshipping and serving the Lord wholeheartedly, or is it something else? Paul urges believers: “Neither give place to the devil.” Ephesians 4:27

The apostle challenges us to put off our former way of living and put on the new person God created in righteousness and holiness (v. 24). He encourages us to stay watchful and prayerful lest we give room to the devil. He wiggles into lives through false teachings, the temptations of anger, lust, lies, or any of the former ways of ungodly living. So we must put off who we once were and be kind to one another, forgiving one another, just as God forgives us, and give ourselves wholly to the Lord.