One Thing That Is Great

No matter how hard we try to keep our thoughts, our deeds, our lives focused on living a Godly, pure life, our enemy, Satan is there trying to knock us down.

In contrast to the woman who voiced the opinion, 'how dull life would be without sin', we know that in this world, even if life were perfect—it wouldn't be.

We also know that sin doesn't make life 'fun', it makes life sad in the least, and tragic at the most. People lose something when they trade purity for tarnish.

In my youth there was a toy that was a 'disk viewer' wherein you could put the story disk wheel into the viewer and watch the story unfold as you clicked through it one scene at a time. The one I remember was of Cinderella. It was so vivid I wanted to be there.

The blue was so blue, the orange of the pumpkin, the lights in the palace...the white so brilliantly white, as scripture says, like no fuller on earth could whiten...and I could feel the whole atmosphere.

We all at times mess up. Sometimes just a little bit, and then sometimes really a lot. Our purity becomes less bright, we become less than. We become like Cinderella running home in our rags.

Unlike Cinderella, who was dressed in rags on the outside, yet good and pure at heart when we mess up, we need a heart change. Thankfully we as Christians have a God of second chances.

"And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." (Revelation 7:14 KJV)