What's Your "Achilles' Heel"?

Are there sins in your life that you think are insignificant? This 1-minute devotion warns us to take these small sins seriously.

The term 
“Achilles' heel” originated in pagan Greek mythology, coming from a strange, fictional story about a mother who dipped her baby into a river that was supposed to protect his life. However, because she held him by the heel, he remained vulnerable in that one spot and was killed at a young age by a poison arrow shot into his heel.

Since the 1800s “Achilles' heel” has been used to describe something seemingly insignificant that gradually destroys a person, business, or nation. 

Scripture expresses this truth in a slightly different way:

“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much” (Luke 16:10).

Satan targets sins that we think are insignificant. He knows they can become our “Achilles' heels” (Ephesians 6:10-18).

So let's ask God to help us identify these sins so we can deal with them aggressively through prayer and God's Word. (See A Practical Way to Deal with Specific Sins.)

And let's memorize Luke 16:10 and 1 Timothy 1:18-19 as part of our defense.

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“Fight the battle well, holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith” (1 Timothy 1:18-19).

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Are there sins in your life that you think are insignificant? This 1-minute devotion warns us to take these small sins seriously.


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