November 13, 2008

• Spiritual Warfare and Sin: Wrong Judgment

  Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. –Galatians 6:7

  “Sin, I repeat, in addition to anything else it may be, is always an act
  of wrong judgment. To commit a sin a man must for the moment believe
  that things are different from what they really are; he must confound
  values; he must see the moral universe out of focus; he must accept a
  lie as truth and see truth as a lie; he must ignore the signs on the
  highway and drive with his eyes shut; he must act as if he had no soul,
  and was not accountable for his moral choices.

  “Sin is never a thing to be proud of. No act is wise that ignores remote
  consequences, and sin always does. Sin sees only today, or at most
  tomorrow; never the day after tomorrow, next month or next year. Death
  and judgment are pushed aside as if they did not exist and the sinner
  becomes for the time a practical atheist who by his act denies not only
  the existence of God but the concept of life after death….

  “The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the
  serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt
  altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin
  is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the
  greater the fool.” (Italics mine)

  AW Tozer, from Man: The Dwelling Place of God, pp. 47-48

  I need to read this quote more often.

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