A dash of poison in the lake, would you then venture a swim?  Radiation in the town, water or sky, is this where you would choose to raise a family?  Contagion or bacteria in the soil, upon the meat or in the sandwich, which of us would allow our kids or parents to eat?  The Lord our God commands to purity, but do each of us even contemplate the meaning of Holiness, devotion or remaining unspotted in this blackened and fallen world?

What constitutes enough danger for you to avoid a building, district or downtown?  Proverbs counsels that a wise man sees danger and will not proceed, yet each of us walks blindly, proudly or unknowingly into houses of darkness and districts of demons without worry or contemplation.  Does this mean that we lack wisdom, or are many of us just unwilling to ask God for who gives it liberally to all who ask?  All of us would hold our breath as long as we could if we knew that we stood in an area of poison gas, a cloud of bug spray or a room densely filled with thick plastic smoke.  Yet we readily breathe the filth put out by profiteers, politicians and pornographers.  We consume and entertain visions and ideas that poison the lake of our minds.  We ponder and revisit sins that would leave our Mothers in disgusted worry for our teetering salvation.

How do we believe that we live so dangerously, so precariously, so inattentive to the things of God without repercussion?  What is the readiness to which we are called?  What is the level of purity to which we have been commanded?  And if our example is Christ then how may we continually avoid His admonition to remain vigilant in our pursuit of righteousness?  What cause us to abandon God’s Word regarding this purity or body, mind an spirit?  Is it perhaps too difficult a task for mortal man?  Why then does God give us His Spirit if not but to reach each pinnacle to which we are individually and mortally incapable?  A light never shines as bright as that light which chooses to shine brightly in surrounding darkness.  Will you shine Christ’s Light?  Do you see the need for mental, verbal, sexual and physical purity?  Remember what His Word says about our sacrifice in Romans 12:1, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.    

This Word says that it by His mercy that we present our bodies, not by our own doing, but by our choice to surrender to His Holy Spirit for sanctification to Holiness.  Through this surrender we find ourselves Holy, acceptable before God.  Then the Word says something astounding, this is your reasonable service.  So, this thing, given unto God is nothing extraordinary, but rather logical and “reasonable” considering His Grace given unto each of us.  Remember folks, these times are becoming as evil as they might ever be, so we must train ourselves to surrender to God’s Merciful Hand and avoid the poisons, the passions and pollution of the fallen world.  I pray it is unto the protecting Hands of God that you have given your life for truth, relationship and protection.  Be free by the cleansing Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, the Light of the World.