Daily writing prompt

Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

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“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” —David Foster Wallace (Sugar coating the truth will keep you in bondage.)

Stop sugar coating “your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires.” Instead let God renew you in the attitude of your mind and give you a new self. (Ephesians 4:22-24)

Continuous consumption of religious sugar often produces spiritual diabetics. Willingness to hear and embrace God’s truth spoken in love is the antidote. (Ephesians 4:15) High levels of religious sweetness are dangerous. Humbly receiving the truth free from sugar coating, is the cure.

Watering down the Bible is a deadly sin that many pastors and churches commit every weak. It leads people into deception. It erodes the truth and makes Christians content with spiritual sugar water and religious diabetes instead of truth.

The living Lord Jesus is the truth. (John 14:6) He doesn’t need added religious sugar. You can experience Him directly. “O taste and see that the Lord is good.” (Psalm 34:8) When the Bible is diluted with sweetness, the Spirit’s wonderful inner rivers of living water are ignored and rejected. (John 7:38)

God the Holy Spirit wants to show us our hidden sins. He wants to do more than forgive us. He wants to set us free from our sins, not to sugar coat them. (Matthew 1:21) He wants to fill us with the overflowing glory of Christ living in us. (Colossians 1:27) Will you let Him? (John 8:32)

Religious candy
Is very handy.
Just sit and hear
A sweet and dandy
Sermon in church
Once a week or so.
(James 1:22)

Sugar coated
Deception
Gets a great
Reception
From too many
Church attendees.
Let God’s Spirit
Mold your perception.
And give you His
Revelation.
(Matthew 7:15-20)

Highly sweetened
Christianity
Without repentance
From all your sins
Might make you smile
For a little while,
But it can’t carry
You mile after mile.
(Matthew 4:17)