Today is Tuesday, June 30th, 2009; Karen's Korner #1602
Today's thought is from Max Lucado in his book titled, "In the Grip of Grace". We don't have to look very many days backward or probably many days into our future, until we hear some horrific story in the news and we think to ourselves, "How could anyone do that?"
Lucado offers a thought on the matter:
The Soul Killer
Sin is a fatal disease
Sin has sentenced us to a slow, painful death.
Sin does to life what shears do to a flower. a cut at the stem separates a flower from the source of life. Initially the flower is attractive, still colorful and strong. But watch that flower over a period of time, and the leaves will wilt and the petals will drop. No matter what you do, the flower will never live again. Surround it with water. Stick the stem in soil. Baptize it with fertilizer. Glue the flower back on the stem. Do what you wish. The flower is dead......
A dead soul has no life.
Cut off from God, the soul withers and dies. The consequence of sin is not a bad day or a bad mood but a dead soul. The sign of a dead soul is clear: poisoned lips and cursing mouths, feet that lead to violence and eyes that don't see God.
Now you know how people can be so vulgar, their souls are dead. Now you see how some religions can be so oppressive. They have no life. Now you understand how the drug peddler can sleep at night and the dictator can live with his conscience. He has none.
The finished work of sin is to kill the soul.
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