If you want to guarantee your downfall, all you need is to live - TopicsExpress



          

If you want to guarantee your downfall, all you need is to live sensually. This means more than merely looking at erotic pictures. It could mean enjoying a house with extravagant square footage of living space, believing that you have every right to luxuriate in it. We need to grieve over the celebration of charismatic personalities and performers, whose lifestyles we have all condoned, if not helped pay for. If we allow our leaders a lifestyle that finally erupts into sin so visible that they need to step down from ministry, then what shall we say about ourselves? Is our condition better than theirs, even if it does not result in equally blatant sin? What do we do with the measure of financial resources that we have? What kind of sensuality and gratification are we allowing ourselves, thinking somehow that it is legitimate because we are serving God, or can afford it? What lays hidden in our hearts because we never chose to let the Lord arbitrate and determine our lifestyle and bring us into that earnest and intense relationship with fellow believers by which we might have had our lifestyle choices questioned? The pursuit of holiness always comes with a price.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:22:40 +0000

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