Current mood:	relieved
Current music:	Dove Brothers Quartet "Let The Old Man Die"

What are you saving in your attic's sin treasure trunk?
Part of the Christian walk is doing battle not on the physical level but in what is known as "spiritual warfare" and I of course am no exception to that rule. I am often accused of thinking I am perfect but I would assert here that I am by no stretch perfect but merely forgiven. Amen.

Satan's best strategy for disarming the believer and sending him down the slippery sin-chute into everlasting HELL prepared for himself and his fallen angels is to tempt us not with new sins but with past ones which the Word of God compares to a dog returning to ingest his own expectorated vomit (Proverbs 26:11). Amen.

Such past ungodly distractions can blindside us the way they did to me this afternoon as I was in my attic looking for my spare Thompson Chain Reference to loan to Sister Sara for a Vacation Bible Time series she's preparing on the Great Tribulation.

I came across an old trunk filled with the sinful remnants of my rebellious teenage years which included but were not limited to beat poetry and books by subversive authors such as Fitzgerald and Orwell as well as cassettes of National Public Radio broadcasts and videotapes of Simpsons Halloween specials and of course all my Princess Leia Jabba-harem metal-bikini action figures.

It was difficult to burn these once treasured items this afternoon but easier than burning forever in the sizzling lava pit of eternal damnation and took of course much less time. Amen.

I Peter 5:8-10:
"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you."

Those of you who are seeking God will be constantly assaulted by the devil with the temptation to return to the vomit of your own past sins and as such the above passage of Scripture should be memorized or at least carried with you on a 3 by 5 recipe card. Amen.

Which temptations in your own life are poised to strike you in your weaker moments? It is important for you to think carefully about which sins are still hidden in your own proverbial "trunk in the attic" and equally important to take them to out the burn barrel as quickly as possible. Amen.