Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde once remarked, “I can resist anything but temptation” (source). He obviously understood human weakness and frailty. The follower of Christ who yields to temptation, soon becomes separated from God (Isaiah 59:1-2). He or she is then classified as one who has “missed the mark” (Strong’s 266) — a sinner (1 John 3:4).
By contrast, a little child once overheard his parents talking about one of the figures in a stained glass window of a church building. He curiously asked them if they were referring to “the man the light shines through?” His child-like remark was an imaginative description of a saint (Matthew 5:14-16).
Beloved, do our lives exhibit the characteristics of the world (1 John 2:15-16), or a clarity of purpose and sacrificial love as Jesus did? (Luke 19:9-10; Romans 5:6).
Are we a sinner or “the man the light shines through?” (Galations 2:20).
—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
By contrast, a little child once overheard his parents talking about one of the figures in a stained glass window of a church building. He curiously asked them if they were referring to “the man the light shines through?” His child-like remark was an imaginative description of a saint (Matthew 5:14-16).Beloved, do our lives exhibit the characteristics of the world (1 John 2:15-16), or a clarity of purpose and sacrificial love as Jesus did? (Luke 19:9-10; Romans 5:6).
Are we a sinner or “the man the light shines through?” (Galations 2:20).
—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
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