So I'm wondering how everyone is doing with seeking RADIATION like we talked about at camp. I used an analogy that I thought might help an idea stick.
We are all born with the same "disease" - sin. It's like cancer. You didn't choose it - you were born with it. It begins to make you "sick" very early on. Two year olds act out in anger and selfishness without anyone teaching them how. It's the cancer. So we learn to TREAT the disease as we get older. When you become a Christian, you receive the cure for it! But like cancer, you have to take care of your spiritual health so that the cancer will stay in remission. It's like when the Bible talks about mastering your sinful desires. It doesn't mean the desires disappear - but it does mean that they are not mastering you - you are mastering them by the power of the Holy Spirit.
In order to keep this cancer in remission, you need to nourish your spiritual life with the right things...prayer, the Word, Christian fellowship, etc. But you also need to seek RADIATION - time soaking in God's presence. His love and forgiveness is what keeps the cancer from killing us. You can be saved and get into heaven on just receiving the cure, but your life will be one full of pain and sickness if you don't continue to seek His radiating presence.
Have you been taking care of your spiritual health? How much radiation have you had this week?
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