Monday, 30 June 2008

• Currently Reading Showdown (Paradise Series, Book 1) (The Books of History Chronicles) By Ted Dekker see related

  People say smoking is a choice. But if you’re addicted to something, doesn’t that rule o

  When I hear about that I think about the verse in Romans 6 that says you become the slave of whatever you obey.  You can choose to obey God  or the world, but eventually you're going to become a servant of one or the other.  I think this applies to smoking.  I've heard people say they'd quit if they could, but they've been doing it so long it seems impossible.  I don't think it's impossible, but I think it's really difficult to stop listening to the cravings and instead be obedient to God's Spirit because you've basically enslaved  yourself by obeying it. 
  
  Like I said though.  For all you smokers out there, I not trying to say it's hopeless to try to quit.  In fact, in the same chapter it states,
  
  Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was. We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.
  
  I don't think that as Christians we are permanent slaves to anything but that Christ's sacrifice frees us from the bondages in our life and gives us the ability to get out of them should we choose to do so.
    
  

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