Thursday, November 20, 2008

Let the tyrant die for it!

Hey,
I haven't forgotten this. This blog hasn't gone to virtual moth balls. I find community at its best when it is united against a challenge. I find my Christian community to be most powerful when I am personally focused upon what Christ was focused upon--Loving God and loving others. I don't need Christian community to keep my flesh happy--in fact my flesh would rather do without them.

Yet, in a time alone, I found community in a brother in Christ who has been with Christ for a long time already. Thomas Brooks was a Puritan Pastor almost 400 years ago and penned the following:

"Sin cannot say of a believer as the centuion said fo his servants, 'I bid one, Go0, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to another, Do this, and he doeth' (Mat 8:9). No! the hear tof a saint riseth agaisntg the commands of sin; and when sin would carry his sould to the devil, he hales his sin before the Lord, and cries out for justice. Lord! saith the believing sould, sin plays the tyrant, the devil in me; it would have me to do that which makes against thy holiness as well as against my happiness; against thy honour and glory, as my comfort and peace; therefore do me justice, thou righteous Judge of heaven adn earht, and let the tyrant sin die for it!"

Try that prayer in the face of sin next time.