Here are a couple more nuggets from the book “The Enemy Within.”  They are from a chapter on fighting sin with the weapon of a true vision of God.

A vision of God like Isaiah’s [Isaiah 6:1-7] or Job’s [Job 42:5-6] or Habakkuk’s [Habakkuk 3:16] can’t be made to order.  But if we want to put sin to death in our hearts, we have to swallow the strongest doses of God’s terrible majesty we can.  We find them in meditations on the word.

Thoughts that reach up toward the excellency of God’s majesty are beautiful and delivious to the soul, but they come with unpleasant side effects.  Even a hint of his greatness shows us up as grasshoppers, dust, and ‘less than nothing’ in comparison (Isaiah 40:12-25).  No one wants to go out of his way to feel small, weak, and defiled; but this strong medicine gives us hope against sin.  In this humiliation our sin withers.

Sin can’t breate in an atmosphere of fear and reverence before God.  It suffocates.  Can you imagine your lust cheery and prosperous when you are on your face before a holy God?

By God’s grace may we keep fighting sin and living in light of the glory of our God.

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