Are you able to go to God when you need Him most (when you’ve fallen into sin or made (another!) bad choice? If not, for the next few weeks, get to know God as your compassionate Father. As your loving Daddy. Perhaps you can plan to spend extra time reading His Word and talking to Him.
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We can decide how our next moment of temptation will go down. The next time we’re tempted to risk gambling away our savings on a “sure bet,” we can kick ourselves and hope the self-loathing won’t last as long as it did last time, or we can experience a true sense of victory.
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The joy we experience while helping restore people’s lives far outweighs the fun of relishing their downfall. Even when – especially when – we help someone we previously scorned.
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What do we gain when we revel in the demise of our political enemies or social rivals? What does our giddiness say about us? Most important, how does our pleasure in watching our adversaries (or fellow church or community members) squirm define us as representatives of the body of Christ?
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Sin has a payoff. But the immediate reward we experience when we take a wrong turn to engage in immoral behavior is so seductive it often overshadows our ability to discern right from wrong. I wonder, though, how quickly our … Continue reading →
