To gouge or not to gouge?
So if your eye – even your good eye – causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. Matt 5:29
Gouge it out? Sounds like an ophthalmolic emergency eh? The verse we fear to use for being labelled a fundamentalist or radical crazy christian. But He was right wasn’t he. There’s stuff we have, stuff we do, stuff we talk about, stuff we live, stuff we look at, people we hang out with, places we go, that are pulling us away from Him. That stop us being who we are. Children of God, with life in all its fullness.
Holiness. Following the rule book of God? Fun destroying lifestyle of legalistic living? No, No, No, No, No. Really, No. We’ve just missed the point. Rather, living life in a way that allows the nearer presence of Christ’s Holy Spirit inside us. Doing and not doing stuff that allows Him to be closer to us, that allows our spirit to be intertwined with His more closely than we thought possible.
You know this. It’s the stuff that seems fun, but leaves you feeling hollow but craving more to relieve the hollowness, the dis-satisfaction. It’s the stuff that looks too boring, but leaves you with an indescribable joy and fullness and satisfaction, and wanting still more.
Is it worth getting it right? Can we be bothered? Does it matter?
Joy indescribable? Life in ALL its fullness? Life as it was designed to be? Life that leaves you feeling alive and complete? Life that gives you an inexplicable sparkle and glow?
You decide. We decide ourselves.
Do you want to be a christian guy or a godly man? A christian girl or a godly woman? I tender that they are not the same thing. I tender we were designed for one and not the other. I tender the power is there… his grace is sufficient, seek and you will find, seek first his kingdom and it will be added to you, ask and it will be given to you, the incomparably great power for us who believe, the riches of the glorious inheritance in the saints… His spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, abiding in us, pulsing in our veins. It is possible – it is what He longs for us. It is what we are designed for.
“You will be my people, I will be your God.”
Chirst the wisdom of God and the power of God. For the foolishness of god is wiser than mans wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.
To gouge or not to gouge?
“There is nothing worth missing our abundant life in Christ for. And there’s too much we don’t know to waste time neglecting what we do know. Start being the person you want to be, and making the choices you’ve always wished you could make. You know what you should be doing. do it.”
Pursuit of Permeation 