Seven deadly sins, Each formed from the loins of an equally devastating demon. Their birth certificates emblemed with a seal of death. The first made in complete likeness of his father named for his complacency in the fall, said to be the eldest brother in this family of socially acceptable degenerates. Pride, Lucifers main man, the guy who plagues us when we feel run down, run over, and pushed through. It is Pride we have to battle, It is lucifers first on the scene, his infantry, his hit man, his not so secret, secret weapon, Pride is the one thing that needs no ride to arrive on the scene but rather he is an unnecessary built in feature to this mortal shell our soul calls home.
Love is a gift that is unconditional in its bestowing and whose commitment is everlasting. But Christ speaks directly of one thing that in the allotment of love to this we find we are walking on a line of the living dead. Mammon the father of a sin so easily committed when little is gained one looses their propriety and is drawn to gaining much more than could ever be useful in their lifetime. It is not in an item that this demon resides but rather in the heart of a man who can see not, past the day in which he lives and the death ridden capsule he calls his toned, tanned, and touched up body.
Asmodeus, not the house hold name your were looking for? Well I will take a gander in saying that you are all to familiar with his son Lust. Ah, lust good old you think I’m love but boy do I cause a great infection in you little, worthless, over celebrated heart. You will fool yourself into believing that this unhealthy desire that pulls you in is the same as the God given, unconditional gift of love. This little sickening perversion of perfection is closely related to Mammon. For they both lay the same trap of self need. That feeling you get when you lack something that please you, something that pleases your carnal desires, and these desires we find reach no deeper then the layer of self pleasure.
So you want it right? You long for it? You “need it”! But you can’t have it! But by golly when I look closely I can see that every one around me seems to no longer have the need. Leviathan, mentioned as a great beast in Job is found to be the name bestowed upon the father of want the father of greed, in olden times this sin was named Envy. It is a debilitating diesis of self pity and shame when you look to see that what you lack is what you crave. Constantly searching for what you have not looking upon others as if they want not. The cure is simple, easy, and concise be content with what you have do not seek a vice.
I don’t want to do it, I will just watch T.V. Get someone else to do it for me. We hire people to do the work because for us the motto has become why do it when you can just pay someone. Self motivation and self preservation have become so low on our scale of survival that we reach out to others to make our way tolerable. Belphegor better known as Sloth is the murderer of dreams and if not controlled will be the killer of us all. We have gotten so used to a world of instantaneity that if anything takes time or effort we mark it down as unholy. Unobtainable and untouchable let others do that stuff, I am to good and to high to work with that bunch.
Just a little more we tell ourselves, a little more will not hurt. The passion of constantly yearning for seeking after more. Not being content with what you have,we give into this sin called Beelzebub. This sin of Gluttony is often portrayed as a man of great weight consuming in excess but each of us in his own way has the thing on which they obsess. To take more then needed ,to be greedy, this is sin also has a close ties with those demons of Sloth,Greed,and Envy.
Now we come to the king, the leader of them all. The one whose destruction inspired this all. Satan himself the lord of Wrath sits on his thrown creating these paths. So here we are sitting down for a brief interview asking him how all these sins affect you. “So Mr. Live and Let Live would you mind divulging your plan, your plan of destruction for all men. Not surprisingly his answer was true as he said why not its has all been placed in the open for your viewing pleasure. He went on to tell of his will of destruction that God would weep endlessly at this worlds conclusion. With a nod of his head and a chuckle in his voice he stated with Pride that although he worked right out in the open those of high status ne’er acknowledged his great plan. It is you who have propagated my will to the world, who have allowed this sins to become your own.” People dismissed him as a myth, a legend of old they thought he was harmless they made him a powerless foe.
So here is the conclusion to these awful feigns. Its not who they are or what your relationship to them may seem, that decides your fate or in fact our future but rather if you will allow them to keep bringing you pleasure. The pleasure of self, of walking our own path allowing our self interest to come before the rest. Will you allow these ministers of evil to bring you down or will you press on until God’s will abounds. For words of encouragement I offer but a few, allow God to re-amp all your desires and to once again renew the yearning for his will and for your life to be complete to destroy this heart of darkness that is full of foul destain to transform it into something that will forever glorify his name.
