One of the gifts of the Spirit is seeing things as they really are, the truth in other words. It really is central to the faith and a yardstick of true faith. If one is caught up in something that is not permanent, of the world, like sports for example, they have a sight problem. They don't see things as they really are therefore they have not grown in the knowledge of the Spirit. I'm not saying in and of itself sports is evil, it's just the preoccupation with it, the mixing of it's competitive ideals with scripture that is a problem.
As we enter this season of sport and it's distractions from reality remember the poor instead of the champions, the meek rather than the proud, the quiet rather than the raucous. Also remember the human body will not be present in heaven, it will have been destroyed along with all the memory of it.
As we enter this season of sport and it's distractions from reality remember the poor instead of the champions, the meek rather than the proud, the quiet rather than the raucous. Also remember the human body will not be present in heaven, it will have been destroyed along with all the memory of it.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.(1 John 2:16)
No comments:
Post a Comment