This week I've felt pretty unoriginal. That may be because my grandfather's getting married tomorrow. Or because we've had my uncle's family from the Grand Cayman Islands here all week. Or because my grandpa moved out of our house on Monday. You see, as lax as I've been on my blog, I feel like my excuse is actually pretty good. So, after I posted John Piper's "How to Watch the Olympic Games" on Tuesday, here's a terrific quote on sin by Tim Challies, from his post, "Sin Wants to Be Your Friend." Thus, the week of unoriginality continues ...
"Sin makes so many promises. Sin promises joy, it promises fulfillment. Sin promises to be your friend. When you first meet a new friend you reveal only little bits of who you are, what you believe, what is important to you. But over time, if that friendship is to grow, you need to reveal more and more of yourself, you need to open yourself up. Friendship grows out of the vulnerability of allowing another person to see who you really are beneath the polite exterior. Sin asks you to give just a little bit more of yourself to it every time. Just a bit more. Just a bit more after that. But over time sin comes to own you. It comes to know everything there is to know about you. And then it stabs you in the back and laughs with glee as you are left sputtering and humiliated and destroyed. It laughs as your marriage is destroyed, as your church is shamed, as your friends are betrayed. That’s the kind of friend it is."