KILL THAT PYTHON NOW

My pastor told me about a man who kept a small python as a pet. He fed that baby python and showed Iove to a python. Often, he'll leave his child with the python when going to work. The python will come around to play with his child. The python will measure his height with the man's child by lying on the child. Gradually, the python began to measure up to the height of this child. The owner of this python kept feeding this beast. One day, when the python measured its height by standing near the man's child, the python was already taller than the child. He quickly constricted the child and swallowed him. The owner returned home to find his only child in the mouth of his beloved pet.

There are things you don't feed. If you do, they'll consume you eventually. The flesh is a friend of that old serpent known as Satan. Those who keep their flesh as a pet will be consumed by it someday. The bible told us to mortify the deeds of the flesh by the Spirit, it didn't say we should feed it neither did it say we should ignore it: "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live", Romans8:13. The word "mortify" is akin to mortuary. The flesh can die, that's the possibility shown to us from scriptures. The very things that brings men down grows with them to the top. Samson fed lust until his lust for women consumed him on the laps of Delilah. As he saw the beautiful curvy ladies of his days, he fed his eyes with their appearance. Lust grew in him waiting for the day of final consumption and that was what happened. Solomon fed his flesh with the sight of all the damsels in his days till he had 700 wives and 300 concubines. Please, how did cope?

Later, the python he fed drew his heart away from the Lord and he became an idol worshipper: "As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been", 1Kings11:4. What are you doing to the flesh? Feeding or killing it? What you don't kill today will kill you tomorrow even if you're the most anointed person on earth. The flesh doesn't respect your pulpit power or skill neither does it respect your theological knowledge. Judas attended the best theological school ever. He learnt directly from the master yet his lust for gains was his undoing. You need to observe those things that excites your flesh, stay away from them and pray for grace to overcome them. Kill that python now.