Dealing with Warts

I was looking at a wart...a stubborn wart. I had tried multiple times to get rid of it and failed. Warts are caused by a virus. But instead of destroying the virus and the infected cells, the immune system tolerates it. The virus is merely walled off. So it continues to make its home in the skin...unless something happens to awaken the immune system.
How spiritually applicable. Often we are blind to our pet sins. They are walled off and safe from our defenses until something happens that causes us to see our pride or our selfishness or our idolatry. And just like my immune system, we can acknowledge the presence of an invader and kill it – even though it means losing some cells in the process. Or we can choose to ignore the sin, wall it off again and have a wart. That can grow and spread. Our choice.