A few days ago I had the tiniest of splinters in my baby finger and it hurt a LOT! So I had to remove it. Then today I had a tiny splinter in another finger that did not hurt at all, but I removed it anyway. I thought of sin - sometimes we feel the conviction and sometimes we don't. Either way we need to repent and remove it.
Along the same theme: I was reading 1 Sam 24: 4-22. I never used to understand why David felt such remorse over cutting off a corner of Saul's robe. It didn't seem like sin to me at all. 1 Samuel says that David's heart troubled him. I understand it now. When we are abiding with the Lord the tiniest of sins, bad attitudes, mean words and/or thoughts bring conviction and our hearts are troubled. David had such a wonderful, soft heart toward God. His intimate relationship with God is a great example for us. He was quick to repent and humble himself when later in life he committed adultery with a married woman, got her pregnant, had her husband killed in battle to keep it all a secret, then married her. Perhaps you have not committed sins "that bad" (I have) yet if God loved David and called him "a man after My own heart" then we know that God loves us too. God forgives the big stuff and the small stuff, our part is to repent.
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