Bareness
(inability to produce) often
becomes a valley of endless and
increasing sorrow. A woman's bareness
knows few
words that express her agony and sense
of emptiness (1 Samuel 1:15). A greater
misfortune however, is the spiritual
bareness of individual believers and
churches. Spiritual bareness is
indicative of neglect in the matter of
the greatest importance: the worship
of God and the salvation of sinners.
This kind of bareness is born from a
complicitness with the world.
Christians
cannot afford to live in a constant
state of bareness. It results in
reckless pursuits that undermines
spiritual growth. Spiritual Believers
understand that bareness is a perpetual
state of counterfeiting God's will for
selfish inclinations. There is nothing
more essential for the Believer than
fruitfulness. Why? The
alternative is a constancy of masquerade
and bareness. Thank God we have the
indwelling Holy Spirit who will never
tolerate us, but is ever instigating a
pursuit of worshiping the living God
and the salvation of sinners.
Sincerely, Dr. Arthur Belanger
Bareness Is Deadly
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