AS STERNLY AS NECESSARY
Today's reading: Lamentations 2:1-3:38, Titus 1:10-2:15, Proverbs 15:19-26

"...So rebuke them as sternly as necessary to make them strong in the faith." Titus 1:13 NLT

Would you pray that prayer for a loved one?

A prodigal?

A back-slider related to you by blood, familial or Christ's?

Do you love them enough to want God's very best for them, no matter the discomfort, the inconvenience or the discouragement He could place in their paths?

What about for yourself?

Would you dare pray that God make sin so unappealing to you that it puts you off?

That it makes you sick?

That is doesn't set well with your very soul?

As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived. ~ Charles H. Spurgeon