Subj : Dirty Laundry
To   : All
From : Newborn
Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 22:57:00

When a women and her husband left their house, their dog Maggie went sniffing
for old shoes and dirty laundry.  She would surround herself with what shd
found and the slept with it under her nose,  The familiar smell comforted her
until they returned.

Of course Maggie didn't realize she's following a Levitical command to
"distinguish between...unclean and clean"  (Leviticus 10:10).  Nor did she
known she was violating it.

In a world still swirling in sin long after it's catastrophic collision with
evil, God commanded His followers to live holy lives (Leviticus 11:45).
Distinguishing between clean and unclean is essential to that task.

Such discernment reequires more than finely tuned physical senses.  The Apostle
Paul wrote that the "natural man"-that is, a human being in his sinful
state-"does not receive the things of the Spirit of God...they are spiritiaully
discerned (1 Corinthians 2:14).  It is the Holy Spirit who provides the wisdom
(v.13).

Just as Maggie finds confort in old shoes and socks, many people seek comfort
in old dirty sins.  We must be mindful that our comfort and consolation come
from God, who loves us and who will establish us in "every good world and work"
(2 Thessalonians 2:16-17).

There is no true happiness apaart from holiness and no holiness apart from
Christ.

Newborn

Christianity is a personal relationship, not a religion
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