by Rodney Woodcock
In Exodus 13:7 The Bible says: “Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.” In the Bible leaven is a type or picture of sin. God instructs His people to not eat bread with leaven during this feast and to make sure that there was no leaven seen in their house during this time.
Even though it was only for a week as they remembered the passover events each year there is a spiritual lesson for us to learn. We need to not be available to sin or have it easily available to us. We are instructed to “flee fornication”, and “flee every appearance of evil”. The reason for this is availability. If you keep sin close in your life you are presenting yourself as available to it. If you will not be available to sin it must be put where it does not have access to your life consistently.
Become unavailable to sin by fleeing every opportunity to sin. Become unavailable to sin and you will become available to God’s holiness in daily living. Let me encourage you to become unavailable to sin by fleeing from it and separating your life from sin at every point of encounter. Holiness is available to us when we are unavailable to sin.
by Rodney Woodcock
Original article can be found at http://www.jeromebbc.com/pastors-blog/become-unavailable/