8. Last time we concluded with this: It could be said that we are conditioning our inner life to the end that God will use every thought, every word and every deed of ours to fulfill his purposes in us and, through us, in others.
Here we are on the verge of the topic of sanctity. Depending on your church background, you may know this as holiness, sanctification, perfection, theosis or even moral theology. As you spend time considering the state of your interior life, you will also find that some things just don’t belong in there.
You will naturally excuse yourself from the impurities that you allow yourself to store in your inner life. You are, after all, only human. You are, after all, a sexual person, a self-indulgent person, a materialistic person, sometimes a spiteful person, maybe an addicted person … you get angry, you say unkind or unclean things … you are tired of putting up with the same falderal from the same people all the time.
Okay, so you are just like everybody else, except that you are looking more closely at your inner life these days, and you are sensing a disconnect. Some things just don’t belong in there. You are starting to realize the inner battle between your personal darkness and the indwelling Spirit of God. No, they will not live in truce. They will keep fighting until one of them dies.
When you look into your inner life, you start to choose sides.
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