I was reminded of this post as I read Zoe’s blog post this morning and the subsequent comments. Addictions are hard to break.
When we became a Christians it was because we loved God and we loved Jesus. Our pastors and the Bible promised us that they loved us first. After all, Jesus had sacrificed himself for us and for all mankind. God loved us enough to give us breath and then he loved us enough to make provision for our sinfulness. Not only that he made the sun, the moon, the stars, the earth and everything in it for our use and pleasure. Though we never actually heard his voice, though we never saw him we knew he was there because his word told us so. We believed. That’s right, love was the reason for it all.
What next? Now that we were Christians what were we supposed to do? Read our Bibles, pray, and go to Church? We did. Faithfully. Beyond that what was there? Reading the Bible and praying and…
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