I wanted to write a disgusting article today--so disgusting
that you would see life in a different light.
Therefore, brace yourself and come with me on a journey that can take
you to where only a few brave and unwavering people choose to go.
I keep my dogs on a leash.
They are well fed and shampooed. But the slightest chance they get to
run away from home they head down to the bay side and scavenge for the
smelliest fish guts washed up between the rocks. The next round is to roll in the neighbour’s fowl
manure. With the taste of freedom, they
roam the neighbourhood searching for their street pals, picking up a few ticks
and fleas in the process.
I love my dogs but they cannot come home and lick me with
their tongues that only moments ago were lapping up the remainder of rotting
fish guts on the bayside. Nor will I
open my arms wide and swoop them up in a loving embrace, with all that greenish
foul-smelling stuff on their backs. No Poochi-poochi or Puppy-puppy!
Imagine--soft, smelly dog poop, heavily soiled feminine
napkins, rotten maggot-filled rubbish, a bloated dead dog swarming with blue
flies, cat vomit…
To us humans, these are nauseating and repulsive. Naturally, you would not want them inside
your house. How about going to visit
someone else’s house and dragging this filth along with you to your host’s
home? You wouldn’t. But it is possible for human beings to get so
accustomed to living or working among filth or obnoxious smells, that it doesn’t
even bother them anymore.
Sin, spiritually, is like that. Detestable! God cannot and will not get
accustomed to sin. As in the natural,
there are some things that are more disgusting than others (for which you can
simply look away or walk away, while others might bring your stomach to your
mouth), in the spiritual I believe that some things are equally abominable to
confront than others.
God is holy. His
house is immaculately clean, and if we want to visit his house or want him to
visit ours we must allow him to clean us up. That is the purpose of Jesus’ blood. It is the bleach or the cleaning agent that
takes away our sins. How dare we think
that we can go traipsing into heaven covered in filth, stinking to high heaven
and demanding that God let us in?
Imagine your house rule is,
“Everyone Please Check In At the Fountain. Leave all shoes, clothes and other belongings with the door attendant. Bathe and change into the fresh new garments provided. Then come in”.
What would you do
to anyone caught illegally trying to enter your white-carpeted house, dripping
with sweat mingled with mud and bits of leaves? On their feet smeared with black
sticky tar are shoes that are already yawning their tired goodbyes to the good
old days, while the smell of “cat piss” and decaying onions give warning of an
accident on the way to a comfort station. Would you give him a great big hug
and offer him a seat on your spotless sofa?
Our sin, however small, is detestable, and God does not want
a trace of it whether he travels to earth or lives in the heavens. His provision for cleaning up is His
Son. You’ve got to pass through his
Son. I repeat: you’ve got to pass through His Son. That’s the entry requirement. It doesn’t matter who else tells you, “You
are not too dirty. Come enter through my
door. You don’t have to go through all
that hassle to clean up.”
Everyone has to check in at the fountain, and that includes
you.
Go through any other door that promises safe passage, and I
am certain you would not be happy with where you end up. Many would take the easier way in but which really is the way leading out, far away from where they thought
they were heading. What a laugh the
misleading door keepers are having as they try to keep a straight face,
diverting the seemingly intelligent and sophisticated through what God’s Son
calls the “wide gate and broad way”.
Wow! Lovely street names—Widegate and Broadway. But it leads to destruction and many go
through it. Matthew 7: 13-14
The ignorant,
gullible, unsophisticated, by worldly standards, choose to enter on “Straightgate
and Narrow-way. God’s very own son, when
he was down here in human form, left the instructions for getting on the way to
Life. He gave clear directions on how to
get to the grand reconciliation with God after our severed relationship with
him. Once we get there we are welcome to
live in a harmonious relationship with the Creator and creation, forever.
Now if that isn’t the way to go, I put a reader's discretion warning here: GTH. You figure it out.
