Our lives are full of seemingly harmless things which may actually have some benefit but ultimately weigh us down and keep us from being fully devoted to Christ.
F.B. Meyer makes this comment based on Hebrews 12:1:
"There would be little difficulty in maintaining an
intense and ardent spirit if we were more faithful in dealing with the habits
and indulgences which cling around us and impede our steps. Thousands of Christians are like water-logged
vessels. They cannot sink; but they are so saturated with inconsistencies and
worldliness and permitted evil that they can only be towed with difficulty into
the celestial port. Is there anything in your life which dissipates your energy
from holy things, which disinclines you to the practice of prayer and Bible
study, which rises before you in your best moments, and produces in you a
general sense of uneasiness and disturbance? something which others account
harmless, and permit, and in which you once saw no cause for anxiety, but which
you now look on with a feeling of self-condemnation? It is likely enough a
weight." (Way Into the Holiest: Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews)
As A.W. Pink said: "A bag of gold would be as great a handicap to a
runner as a bag of lead!”
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