Cut it off and throw it away

Cut it off and throw it away!

This life is so full of peril, that even its best things may become stumbling-blocks! Our very qualities of strength, may become fatal forces driving us to ruin.

Human beauty is a memento of unfallen life; and yet beauty has proved a snare to many a woman, drawing her away from God. Power to make money is a perilous gift, which has led many a man to spiritual ruin.

The appetites, desires, and affections are part of the glory of humanity — and yet, unbridled, they have whirled many a noble life to destruction.

These are illustrations of our Lord's meaning when He speaks of cutting off the hand or the foot which causes us to sin.

"If your hand or your foot causes you to sin — cut it off and throw it away!

It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire!" Matthew 18:8

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