HELEN SANDERS
4-30-2026
SLIVERS

Have you ever had a sliver in your finger? You may not see it, but you can feel it. If you do not get it out, it will irritate your skin, and maybe fester. It isn’t easy to get a sliver out because they are so small. Sometimes you can’t even see it unless you use a magnifying glass, but you know it is there.

Every time you touch something where the sliver is imbedded, pain shoots into your finger. If you let it go for a while, it may become imbedded and it will take more than tweezers to dig it out. Ouch. Sometimes you have to use a needle and open the skin up to poke at it, and it really hurts, but the relief soon comes when it is finally taken out.

Slivers are like sin. They enter our lives when we least expect it, and take root. They cause hurt, and they are not easily removed. If we do not get rid of the “slivers” that enter our souls we will have buried pain, and it will become harder and harder to get to the source.

Sometimes we ignore those slivers of sin, and think they will just go away, but they do not. They are there beneath the surface, and every now and then it hurts when something touches it “just right.”

The answer to sin “slivers” is to pull them out immediately even if it hurts, because if you don’t, they will hurt a lot more later. Just like the finger, there may be some “bleeding,” but it will bring cleansing to the sore.

Don’t let sin build up in you and become calloused over with indifference. Ask God to show you those areas of your life where there are sin “slivers” that need “tweezers,” so they can be pulled out. You will be glad that you did. The sore will heal, and things will be so much better!