Subtle

Indulgence in sin is a gradual process.
Exo:34:15-17 says at least three steps in which Israel will turn to idolatory.
🔹Invite you join them in their sacrificial meals.
🔹Accept their daughters as wives for your son's.
🔹They will seduce you to commit adultery.

Sin starts at the grass root level -in may be a thought level, in may be a look, in may be itching to tell a word - of anger outburst or curse.
Succumb to it, it becomes a habit.
Yield to it, it becomes your master, slowly.
Slowly and subtly you fumble to its feet.
But if you resist at least once, it becomes easier to overcome the next.
Not a miracle. Not a one stop solution. But gradually.

Jesus was serious about dealing with sin at the root level - as in cut off your right hand and gouge out your good eye. It is better to lose one part of your body than your whole body to be thrown to hell.

Yes it is easier to pluck a grass than to cut a tree. It is easier to tame a cub than a grown up ferocious king of the jungle. It is easier to train a baby, than wait to become a Mowgli.

A subtle compromise in the rudder ends up the ship miles away overnight. Lot did just that. He did not overtly sin. He slowly and nonchalantly moves inch by inch closer to Sodom and gradually becomes and important person in the village, yet fails to instill godly qualities to his generation. Who through loathsome acts created two nations, Moabites and Ammonites - who created maximum havoc in the history of Israel. But Abram, he continued to make altars wherever he went and continued in the God-orientedness always.

Do we make subtle compromises- and say life main hota hein! Not overtly sinning but subtly and faintly.
May the Lord grant us wisdom to discern where we subtly compromise!