Aweikinin 13/10/2014
From Psalms 119:8
Hey h,
I am hung up on the idea of addiction. I know it is pop
psychology now to say that we all battle with some overt or covert addiction
(that this is popular does not necessarily mean it is wrong). Still my deep and
purely intellectual (hahaha) foray into the HBO show “the wire” had an
interesting sub plot in the character “bubbles” and his journey throughout the
series. I came out of my ‘studies’ with a new respect for the idea of AA and
other bodies that deal with addiction in practical ways.
I guess when you become a Christian you quickly realise
your one addiction is sin and from this all others flow. It is degrading to
note that while day in and day out trying to look up at the sun. It is like
that almost physical drag of sleep while you are trying to come awake. We can
deny sin all we want or cover it in coping language but no one comes to God and
is still comfortable with sin. When you have been shown the high heights, the
low valleys and stretches may call you back but your heart is forever in Everest.
The cure to sin is more of God. The silly thing to do is
decide you are not worthy and to give in to that fool talk. Our worthiness was
never the issue. Our pride tells us that we are better than this. Grace tells
us we can be and we will be but perhaps not now. We will fall and stumble and
battle these things and perhaps perfection comes when we rise up again from the
last sleep before eternity. I am being diplomatic with that last bit;
perfection will only come when we wake up into God.
Pride is always before a fall. The idea that we are above
sin is only true when we live in God. To obey Him and follow Him is the start
of our renaissance. After a weekend of debauchery and illicit behavior spurred
on by bottles, in those valleys we love, we are confronted with the mountain of
all mountains and the high vistas of God.
Back to Him we must crawl.
In the words of Hozier: aaaaaaaaamen!
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