Last night as I was doing my reading for Jeremiah and the commentary we are reading from by R.K. Harrison said "Spiritual values can never be compromised with impurity." After reading that I thought how simply true that statement was, but how often do we allow perverse things into our lives by compromising a spiritual value. I am speaking as a person who has an immense amount of perverse things in my life, how do I allow those perverse things into my heart and head? Just like Paul, we all have a some sort of thorn in our flesh to remind us of the fact that God's power is made perfect in weakness. While that is true it does not permit us to have those perverse things in our lives. When Paul realized the thorn in his flesh he begged God to take it from him and God said that his grace is sufficient. When Paul was tormented by the thorn he fell to his knees before the Lord. That is how Paul dealt with the thorn, he gave it over to God.
The perverse things I allow in my life and possibly the perverse things you allow in yours are a thorn in our flesh. In other words, something Satan is using to torment us in our walk with God. As simple as it may sound we need to follow one of the greatests apostles of all time example, we need to fall on our knees before the Lord, beg for his help, and give it over to Him. Surrender.
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Spectacular!
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