Holiness

Brock spoke about holiness the other day at camp and it convicted me. He told about how we treat the symptoms instead of going to the root of the problem. He used the story about his wasp sting as an illustration. Whenever he broke out in hives and was itching all over, he wanted to go the the pharmacy and get some salve to put on it. However, he needed to go to the emergency room because he was dying and didn't even know it. The hives were just a symptom of what he had...what he had was poison on the inside.

He went on to say that sin is like this. It kills us from the inside out. We need to go to the root of the problem. The only way to do that is to allow Jesus to cleanse us.

At one point, Brock mentioned that he knew many ministers in which their lives are ruined due to sin. When I began to think about friends of mine that have fallen this year, I broke. The Lord broke me. I was so broken over the sin that has come in and destroyed peoples' families and ministries.

Brock was so serious and almost harsh when he spoke about sin. That's because sin is not something to play with. We need to take it VERY seriously.