IT’S A TUG OF WAR WORLD Many times Christians are disliked for reasons other than being religious. Christians like to think it is because they are spiritual it tends to irritate people, when in reality, it may be their annoying personality.

It is true that the impure spirit of the world is opposed to the pure Spirit of God. All humans born are accountable to him who is born of the Spirit. Taking into full consideration the weakness of man to the attraction of the world it becomes clear that some Christians tend to irritate people through their own personality faults instead of through their trying to imitate the qualities of Jesus Christ. The Christian community may as well admit this and do something about it. It does no good to try and hide unpleasantness and annoying dispositions behind a verse of Scripture. This avenue of behavior is detrimental and serves to alienate the nonbeliever from Jesus Christ.

Social Sins Are Tolerable Strangely enough, it is a fact of life that social sins are more tolerable and always more attractive than spiritual ones. The world can tolerate a liar, thief, drunkard or glutton but will turn its’ fury against a Christian’s outwardly righteous life who is guilty of being a hypocrite. The nonbeliever may not recognize this as a sin but to the Christian it may be more exceeding sinful than the sins of the flesh. Christians must be in the world but not of the world in order to survive the world. The world beckons, trying to seduce the Spiritual Person into its’ existence. It tries to make the Spiritual Person its’ own, its’ lover, its’ faithful servant. Rev 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. In today’s world of inventive imagination the church is more active than ever, but less attuned to Jesus Christ. The church has turned into a social club with all the bells and whistles of self fulfillment. Where is the dedication, the discipleship, the fervor? Has the light, indeed grown dim? Happy Trails

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