Seductive scenes of giddiness and mirth!

(Stephen Tyng, "Christ is All")  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio

The true Christian is no longer devoted to this perishing world! There was a time whenthe pleasures of the world attracted him—and he loved them. The seductive scenes of giddiness and mirth invited his affections—and he yielded to their influence. He now recalls with shame, thelow and groveling disposition which made him stoop to such pursuits.

The enchantments of the world once seemed to him of vast importance and worth. He did not think of the inevitable end of such things. The danger of the everlasting ruin of his soul never caused him to hesitate in his vain pursuit!

And yet while he loved the pleasures, and eagerly sought the gains of this world:
  the trouble which they required in the obtaining,
  their cares and losses,
  the uncertainty which attended their possession,
  the emptiness which came after their enjoyment
—constantly harassed him, and more than counter-balanced all the gains the world could give.

He now sees the exceeding folly of this futile system of life! He is ashamed to think that he had ever been such a slave—and risked his eternal soul for that which he knew must eventually leave him and perish!

"You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God!" James 4:4

"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever!" 1 John 2:15-17