1 Peter 2:11 (NLT) “Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls”
Worldly pleasures war against the soul. They cause the believer not to settle in life. Allowing worldly pleasures to govern your life will deaden your spiritual life. This instruction from the epistle “keep away from worldly pleasures” is so much relevant in our days like never.
Any believer who can’t stay away from worldly pleasures now is not serious about spending eternity with God. In any case, these worldly pleasures are in for “war” and not to make you look good and feel good. The pleasures will fight your conscience, conviction and faith. They will make sin and evil look normal by offering a temporary relief that will offer an eternal damnation.
Worldly pleasures are for a season. You don’t have them for eternity. Thus, it is not a good business to trade off something of eternal value – your salvation, to give in to worldly pleasures.
Today, most people have made money their “god”. They do anything and every thing for it. They steal, fraud people, join cults, visit mediums, enter unholy alliances and the like. Some too fornicate for it and lie for it. The caution from 1 Timothy 6:6-10 does not make any spiritual sense to them.
But as a Child of God, you must know that love for money puts you up for a worldly pursuit. In Hebrews 11:25 the Bible says, “He (Moses) chose to suffer affliction with the people of God, then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Thus, it is better to suffer affliction than to give yourself to any worldly pleasure that will destroy you in the end.
You see, 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. Don’t be deceived, there is nothing GOOD outside God. If what you want is outside the will of God, it will destroy you at the end.
Read: Hebrews 11:25, “Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;”
RHEMA From Heaven 