Monday, August 27, 2012

Dallas Willard - Question 2


“If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away.  For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.”  There are a few choice sins that I have had quite a struggle with.  Everyone struggles with something.  This verse gives the best advice possible.  Rather than let something that may cause more temptation lurk around you, do away with it completely.  Let there be not even a hint of immorality.  Otherwise, you are much more susceptible to falling back into sin and separating yourself from the Lord.
                “But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven.”  We all have people in our lives that have wronged us.  There are people that we may not be too fond of.  Yet we are called to love these people anyway.  If we do not, and only love those who are easy to love, we are no better than “tax collectors.”  Even those who do not follow Christ love the people whose company they enjoy or those that treat them well.  We would look just like the rest of the world, and therefore ruin our witness to the lost around us.

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