At this present time compulsive behavior is at epidemic levels. Between the rampant obesity and the addictions to everything from television to the tweeting, the whole concept of moderation has been cast aside in favor of fanciful whims sought after in excess. As a result of this, individuals are left impotent and dull to reality in the rapacious quest for the best, the most, and the newest.
However, behind this smokey haze of ravenous impulse lies an even darker tinge of debauchery and sin, lurking round every unsuspecting consumer for its moment to strike. Ultimately, sin can be summarized as anything that separates an individual person from God and thus deadens the individual to God's voice or. Therefore, the fiend bewitched with enamoring desires is, in fact, merely being pulled away from God by the insidious chains of the belly.
The content of the desire need not even be so blatantly dastard as rape or murder; for it is not the content that warrants sinfulness. Indeed, it is the effect of rendering the sinner separated from the Holy Lord that signifies the sin and, hence, any thing can be the course for sin if it is delivers the person into a state of disregard for God, if not outright rebellion.
It is therefore prudent and necessary at these dire times of gluttony and greed disguised as consumeristic democracy, that the Church, and the Christians that comprise it, take a significant stand both in personal conduct and in voice. We must strive to live lives not of avarice or insatiability but of the utmost joy and satisfaction, acknowledging that our fulfillment can never be met by the corporeal pleasures afforded by this world but is defined and provided in the Lord God Almighty, through His Son Jesus and appropriated by the Holy Spirit. This is our call and it is our prayer. Let us then not lose sight of this truth in a world that wastes innumerable resources to conceal it!
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