July 23

1 Peter 2:11 (NIV84)
11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.

Out of all the alien movies that have come and gone, most of them want to take “humans” with them and go back to their home planet. Recently the trend is for the aliens to take over earth and settle here. Neither of these scenarios apply to us. We are aliens here because we don’t partake and act out our sinful desires. Our “home planet” is not earth per say, not because we are “from” another place, but because we are going to another place in which we long to go to. We are more like ET who wanted to “go home”, because that is the goal of our lives – to live eternally with God in heaven. We are strangers here because we are not like the people from here who have not tasted of the great salvation we have. The go after all kinds of sinful pleasures and try to outdo one another because that is all they have to live for.

There is a war that goes on and it is sinful pleasures verses our soul. Our souls were not created for sinful pleasures and they war against the very nature of our soul. When our sinful desires are carried out, our souls go through a trauma of sorts and are immediately in need of repair. That is why he – Jesus – restores our souls. Imagine that sinful desires are a flesh eating bacteria – now just do what seems logical.