a sin knot

have you ever opened up your jewelery box and found your precious necklaces looking something like this?  you try pulling on the chains, but find the knot gets tighter.  you try pulling on the loops, but you end up making more knots.  the only way to solve the problem is to either throw all of these precious necklaces away, or sit down and gently pull each chain apart.  

i like to untangle knots.  i find it rather relaxing, perplexing, and mentally challenging.  i almost look for a necklace knot in my jewelery box, just not right before i have to go somewhere.  (me and my homophones!)

sin can become like this knot in our lives.  the harder WE try to pull it out of our lives the tighter the knot becomes.  even when we try a good self-help BOOK, the more tangled our knot becomes.  truly the only way to untangle this knot is by seeking out the Master Craftsman.  in His loving hands, through his gently ways can that knot begin to come apart and finally be released.  

i have had LOTS of sin knots in my life.  i have found that through each sin knot my Master Craftsman has slowly and gently and lovingly taking me through each untangling step.  it's not like when i was little and my mom would try and brush the knots out of my hair; i was left crying and holding my throbbing head.  OUCH!  it's different with the Master.  yes, there was pain, but when you are in the hands of the Master Craftsman you don't have to fear the fire.  desirable things come at the cost of pain sometimes, well all the times.  (6 babes later, i can attest to the pain.)  

back to sin, how do you master it, so it doesn't become a knot?