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Sobriety

A man who has tasted love but once is afflicted indeed; but not as severely as he who knows not loss. If I told you I do not enjoy the trappings of money, a good drink and fine cigar, I would surely be lying for I am but human. However, If I knew that the forsaking any or all of these indulgences would assure or possibly extend to just one man the pleasure which I derive from God’s love, I would without hesitation due so, even for the remainder of my life. Furthermore, if by indulging in any or all of these pleasures I knew I was precluding even one man from the love of God I assure any pleasure I would have derived would be replaced with incomparable agony. Beyond this if one is to truly embrace and experience the pleasure of God’s love he must not only be willing to forsake the pleasures of life, but even embrace the expense of suffering. For without tasting the cost, how can we genuinely suggest the value?

Believe

Thinking is recognizing the existence of disjunctives. Believing is making a choice to act upon one of these disjunctives. Faith is doing so though lacking incontrovertible evidence to support this choice. The gospel: a vestigial endowment iniquitously avulsed from our soul solicitously awaiting its reprisal from untenable abeyance.