Avoid worldly pleasures

1 Peter 2:11 “Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul”

There is a fight to fight for your soul as a Christian. Inasmuch as your spirit is saved, that is not so with your soul. Your soul is being saved. It takes a great and a conscious effort to yourself to keep your soul intact from corruption. This is simply by avoiding worldly pleasures. 

Nothing contends negatively with your soul like worldly pleasures. The bible says it “wars against” the soul. They cause the believer not to settle in life. If you allow worldly pleasures to govern your life, it will deaden your spiritual life.

Moses stood out tall in his days and became a mighty man God used because he knew how to avoid pleasures of the world. Hebrews 11:25 says, “he (Moses) chose to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season“.

You must know that no one can have a very successful life by being carnal or subjecting his life to worldly pleasures. Romans 8:6-7 “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be”

No matter what pleasures or happiness you get from ungodly living, it is for a season and after that you will be handed over to calamity. Stand out for the Lord and dare to be different. Wild parties that end in drunkenness with the display of nudity in this generation, sexual immorality, and the vices we see today is not from the Lord. Have nothing to do with these vanity fairs. It will only corrupt your sanctity.

Fashion, fame, and riches will fade and pass away, but those who walk with God in the highway of holiness will manifest his glory. Don’t be deceived, there is nothing good outside God. If what you want and have is outside the will of God, it will destroy you at the end. Stand out, and look unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.

Read: Hebrews 11:24-26 “By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.