So, along you come, and you throw a rock, about two-inches in diameter, at the windshield, and you break the windshield. It breaks through your beloved car's windshield. It is a smaller hole, but the entire winshield is ruined, nonetheless.
Now, rewind. Your windshield is back to perfection... except you launch a cinder block through it this time. It ruins the entire windshield. Differently than the smaller rock, but the same in the fact that, hey, you just royally jacked up your beloved car.
This is the same as our lives. We have these precious bodies and our lifetimes to love, be loved, and do God's will. Yet with our sin, even the smallest of sin, we ruin our entire lives and purposes. The hole may be smaller for you and bigger for another person, but whether you cheated on your last test or brutally murdered an old man for his wallet, you have something in common with everyone. We are all RUINED. Check out Romans chapter 5 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans%205&version=NASB) So, sweat the "little sins." Keep watch. Keep yourself in check at all times. Have an accountability friend who will let you know when you are messing up. And rely on God... He can fix your state of being ruined.
For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.-James 2:10-13
For He who said, "DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," also said, "DO NOT COMMIT MURDER." Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.
For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
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