Bob Russell has long been among my top 5 favorite Men of God. This is an excerpt from his blog entry about gun control, but I find it applicable to life in general. Craig Massey wrote: “Two natures beat within my breast. The one is foul, the other blessed. The one I love, the one I hate. The one I feed will dominate.” When there is nothing inside to counter Satan’s messages, even people who outwardly appear normal are capable of horrific crimes. When unrestrained, evil eventually dominates as surely as a small bruise on an otherwise good apple will eventually rot the entire fruit. The good news is there is a proven way to eradicate evil. It’s not stricter gun laws nor arming every employee at the naval shipyard so they can defend themselves. The only way evil can be cured is through the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses us of all sin. The Bible promises,”… if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (2 Cor. 5:17) Intellectual pride immediately scoffs at that solution as, “Oh, the Bible again” and, “There’s nothing new about that”. Well there’s nothing new about water either, but it still extinguishes fire and quenches thirst as well as anything I know. Jesus told a story about a man who swept a demon out of his house. However, he left the house vacant and soon seven demons worse than the first came in and camped out in that haunted house. Nature abhors a vacuum. The same is true spiritually. Jesus came that we might have life and have it to the fullest. Without Him our lives are empty and an open invitation to Satan to fill the void. But when Christ lives within, the chains of sin are broken and we are set free to become conformed to His image.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 02:42:19 +0000
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