Fear No Fear

“Let love be without hypocrisy. Hate what is evil. Cleave to what is good” (Romans 12:9, MEV). Too often we struggle with sin for many years before deciding that nothing can be done and giving into it. Embracing it as part of who we are and finding ways of living with it. Essentially reconciling ourselves to it. We do it by saying it was people around us who made us feel guilty. Or that society wasn’t giving us a fair shot. Or a group of people or a type of thinkers within an organisation (school, government, or church, for example) confused us or abused us and made us see this thing as bad until we realised it was good. We look at things from the perspective of those who do the same thing – making it obviously good because other people do it too. We can blame ourselves, books we read, shows we watch, and other people for making us feel guilty. And then we reconcile the sin and find a way to work with it. Setting a live and ket live policy before embracing the sin and living like it was normal. Where in all of that is God’s point of view? That objective point of view that shines in our consciousness showing us what is right and wrong? We know when we are doing wrong. We bury it. We blame others for putting that thought into our head. But we know it in our hearts. We need to stop nurturing sin. It doesn’t matter what WE think. What matters is what HE thinks. It is only by nurturing an attitude of personal intolerance – not tolerating sin in ourselves – that we get motivated to live without it. If we don’t turn from evil, we’ll find it growing flowers in our minds. Those weeds will choke out the things of God. Get rid of evil. Don’t tolerate it. And never, EVER let your heart make friends with it.