Archives: 2006

The enemy facing us has always been the same one.

Yet it seems each generation faces its own unique set of enticements, temptations, and sins.

In our day here in the USA, we struggle against moral perversion, shamelessness, materialism, pleasure, and ease.

Spiritual drift and coldness abound. So does a lack of commitment.

So I thank God for this truth:

“Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father” (Galatians 1:4).

Though Jesus gave Himself some 2000 years ago, His sacrifice yields deliverance for me from this present evil!

The thirsty hart may be so thirsty that he will drink polluted water. But it’s not what he needs. And it may sicken or even kill him.

I understand the enticement of that which is not good for me.

I know what it’s like to try to find pleasure, nourishment, and satisfaction in “mud puddles.”

But it’s all a vain, futile pursuit.

“Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter” (James 5:5).

Such is the witness against those settling for the mud puddles.

Deliver me from that! May I pant after Living Water.