Comments on: Sleeping with spiders.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:33:47 +0000

Ahhh… my friend mentioned this as her first encounter with SCL. So, I had to come check it out. And she was right!!! Brilliant. I HATE spiders, but I have gotten better about the arachniphobic responses. What you are referring to with sin, I cam across several years ago, when I began to notice what seemed like “more” lust or issues in my life. I lamented to God – Am I even saved? What is WRONG with me that the closer I grow to You, the closer I seem to sin???

God so wisely and lovingly replied with the same wisdom you found: you aren’t “more” of a sinner, you are just more aware of sin.

EXCELLENT Jon!!! Love to Grandma…

By: Heather Villalta

Heather Villalta — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:05:02 +0000

I really like this post. Firstly, because I HATE spiders!!! Secondly, because I can't imagine living in a place that is infested with them (you may have just made me change my mind about going to Ecuador for a semester of college). Thirdly, because my hatred of spiders makes the lesson in this post really stick.

By: Minister

Minister — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:46:09 +0000

Brilliant post. This one spoke to me as few others have done. Thank you.

By: Marts

Marts — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:26:21 +0000

Yeah i hear you John. There are too many spiders in my house.

By: Marcus02

Marcus02 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:40:13 +0000

sadly, in the lust field im spider infested. in most everything else im fairly clean. i see the small things. but lust is proving to be a bigger problem than i ever anticipated. it seems no matter how many times i talk to God about it and ask Him to help me in my fight i either dont really let him help or he is helping and im not trying…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:46:14 +0000

Covered in spiders. Only realised the other day.

Hopefully can get help. Hopefully not too late...

'may His grace be sufficient for all of us...'

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:18:06 +0000

I really like this metaphor because I myself hate spiders, and many people do. But I like how you said the spiders would be aggitated by the light, which is also like sin, in that even though we may be numb to our sin and we convince ourselves it's okay, we still don't publicize it, because deep down we know it's wrong and we're ashamed. So the spiders scatter when there's light as we fall further and further from God and his light when we soak our lives in sin.

I'm new to your blog but I really enjoy your writing style and the power of the Lord through your messanges!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:24:54 +0000

Brilliant post!

My question is, how do you re-sensitize yourself to the spiders? I'm way too comfortable taking part in the gossiping and inappropriate joking around at work, I always feel bad about it afterwards and I pray about it often, but I still find myself doing it everyday…

By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:12:00 +0000

Such a great post…passed it on to several others I know in my Celebrate Recovery group!

By: Raven

Raven — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:33:00 +0000

While I would have never used spiders as a way to talk about this, it was simply BRILLIANT! I know exactly what you're talking about. If I'm being brutally honest about myself, I would say that there are still a lot of areas in my life where I'm sleeping with spiders.