Never forget when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy,
normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground. I
know we have won many a soul through pleasure. All the same, it is His
invention, not ours. He made the pleasures; all our research so far has
not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden.
Hence, we always try to work away from the natural condition of any
pleasure to that in which it is least natural, least redolent of its
Maker, and least pleasurable. An ever increasing craving for an ever
diminishing pleasure is the formula. It is more certain; and it's better
style. To get the man's soul and give him nothing in return-that is
what really gladdens our Father's heart
Few can grasp hold of the sowing and reaping to the negative things in our lives. We enjoy and embrace the sowing and reaping of the blessings, forgetting when we sow to the flesh, we reap destruction. In essence, nothing in return.
Romans 6:21 says this, too. No fruit to be gained by the former things, which probably were pleasurable but the long term effects were hideous.
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