Freedom from the Fungi of Sin

Armillaria Ostoyae, or Honey mushrooms, are some the largets living organisms on the earth.  They are parasitic fungi that spread across root systems with its lace-like stems that grow under the bark of trees and shrubs, robbing the plant of its vital nutrients, killing the host-plant as it grows.  Although the mushroom begins from a single spore they can spread for miles.  In Oregon's Malheur National Forest, one such fungi has spread for some 2,200-plus acres.  It is estimated that this particular organism is over 2,400-years-old.

Oddly, while this fungi is present, it is very difficult to trace unless the tree is cut into as the fungi grows primarily under the bark, tapping directly into the nutrient source.  The "hidden" killer.  Often times researchers are not even aware of the fungi's presence until a cluster of trees is found dead and, upon dissection, the fungus is found.

The story of the Honey mushroom is much like the story of sin, which hides just under the skin, stealing the vital nutrients of the host and eventually killing him/her.  Something so small, hidden just beneath our skin with tremendously devastating effects.  Sin, like the fungi, eats away at its host to eternal destruction, and prevents the nutrients of God's grace from transforming our lives.

Fortunately, we have an advocate in Christ Jesus who has cured us of our disease and has removed the parasite of sin.  Sin entered into mankind through one man just as the Honey mushroom spread form a single spore.  But Jesus, through His obedience unto death, made a way to cure us of the pervasiveness of sin so that we could be free from its parasitic pull (Rom. 5:12-21; 1 Cor. 15:19-26).

God, by the work of His Son, has saved us utterly.  As a result, we can come to Him in faith so as to receive the perfect remedy for sin.  As Jesus enters into us, by the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit,   God's holiness applied directly into us and the sin that had so destroyed the innards of our beings is removed wholly from our lives.  Let us then press into God in faith as to be fully cured from the fungi of sin that eats away at us from the inside out!