PART TWO:
THE PERILS OF FINISHING STRONG
CHAPTER FOUR
DRY SHIPWRECK
It’s always a tragedy when a father overlooks the
potential in his own son. God will choose leaders for the next generation. And
that great leader of the next generation may be running around your house right
now with a diaper that needs changing and a nose that needs wiping. So make
sure you take good care of the kid.
The pilot of a ship is worth as much as all the crew. –
Greek Proverb
Sin takes you farther than you wanted to go, keeps you
longer than you wanted to stay and will cost you more than you wanted to pay.
It’s not uncommon to meet a Christian man who is polygamous. His first wife is
Sarah, his second is pornography, his third is soft porn movies when he’s
travelling, and his forth is calling sexually explicit 900 numbers. Maybe you
never thought pornography makes you a “many-wived man” but it does. And like
other wives, they bear children. Pornography births shame, soft porn births
guilt and prostitution births humiliation.
Deception never covers obedience, it just makes it worse.
To act is easy, to think is hard – Goethe
Painful consequences follow confessed sin. That’s why we
want to avoid sin in the first place. The next time some sin looks particularly
attractive, remember the consequences of sin that haunted David for the rest of
his life. Whatever that specific sin is, it’s not worth it.
You can take this to the bank: no matter how alluring the
sin looks right now, it will wind up costing you more than you are willing to
pay.
Compromise chills the soul. – Max Lucado
Source: Finishing Strong by Steve Farrar
No comments:
Post a Comment