Death is Love

I am currently reading "True Spirituality" by Francis Schaeffer; the other day while I was reading I came across something huge and profound that made me re-evaluate my faith.  That's about the third or fourth time so far in reading this.  It was in Chapter 6: Salvation: Past-Future-Present.

Here Schaeffer was talking about the unity of salvation and how thanks to the finished work of Jesus on the cross, God the Father has become our Father, we are in Christ, and the Holy Spirit is indwelling us.  So, not to get all heretical or anything God basically relates to us on the level that He relates to Himself.  He relates to us in the most intimate way possibly imaginable.  God sees us as His Son, we are in the Son, and the Holy Spirit is in us; therefore we have a completely personal relationship with God, so personal it's like the relationship He has with Himself in the form of the Trinity.  God invites us into that personal relationship and make us positionally a part of Himself.

Schaeffer made the point earlier, that while it is part of the Christian's duty to prove God's moral standards through his or her life, it is primarily the duty of the Christian to prove God's existence through their lives.  This dovetails with the first point in that we are positionally invited in to the presence and fellowship of the Trinity, and then it is natural that the reality of that relationship flows out of us.

The last point Schaeffer makes that I want to touch on is that we are the Bride of Christ as the church, literally, in reality, in the present.  We are literally being prepared for Christ, and Christ is waiting for us and as soon as we step from the physical reality to the spiritual reality, He is there to receive us as His Bride.

All this to say that because we as Christians are the Bride of Christ, and it is our duty to be the reality of God in our lives, and most importantly that we are relationally let into a relationship with the Trinity on His own level, as positionally part of it, all of this is so great, how can we compromise?  We are the Bride, the reality, and the Son so how can we not have God's view towards sin and not absolutely loathe even the thought of it?  How can we compromise what we allow ourselves to watch and think on and listen to and read?  I am not saying that one cannot be saved if they read/watch/listen to things that are not edifying, I am saying that once you understand salvation how could you want that anymore?  You can still indulge your flesh, but why would you want to?