E-Book, Chapter 2

The chapter today, as the title implies, is simply to remind people with scripture who God is, and, how He views sin. Pastor Mark Driscoll states in today’s reading of Porn-Again Christian, “So, I have provided the following verses of Scripture to simply scare you into seeing God in his holiness and power rather than re-envisioning him in your mind as much less holy than he is, and subsequently your sexual sin as much less unholy than it is”

Indeed, until we really see and appreciate in our heart-of-hearts who God truly is (as much as our finite human brains can), we will never come close to seeing our sin for what it really is. His point is valid, and dead on, way too many of us reduce God to someone we can intellectually manage so as to justify, and hold on to as long as we can, our own sinful weaknesses. He begins . . .

chapter 2
The Fear of the Lord

Wisdom is living your life in congruence with the will of God by walking in grace with him. Wisdom begins with fearing God (Prov. 1:7). The Scriptures continually speak of the One True God as the God of glory. This means that God is to be considered most heavily, or weighty, in the lives of his people, and that the sinful desires in us and cultural norms around us be seen as unnatural, depraved, and light in comparison to him. Simply, until you fear God and weigh him most heavily in your life, you will remain an undisciplined fool. So, I have provided the following verses of Scripture to simply scare you into seeing God in his holiness and power rather than re-envisioning him in your mind as much less holy than he is, and subsequently your sexual sin as much less unholy than it is.

Read the rest of the chapter here.

Application: After reading the verse he highlights, do a personal inventory (and not just an intellectual inventory, but a life-practices or habits inventory—what you actually do, not just what you know you should say). “How does your view of sin and God’s holiness square with God’s view?”

Blessings
Bill H