Tolerance is a big political jargon word today. We are suppose to be tolerant of anyone and everybody. I am intolerate of some tolerance. We can become so openminded that our brains fall out.
We are too tolerant about our own lives too. In this morning's readings (www.lifejournal.cc) Joshua tells us about when Achan had hidden sin and how that hidden sin, when tolerated (by him or others) caused everyone to lose. Get the sin out and victory comes!
We then read I Corinthians 5 and Paul tells us the same thing: Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.(v.7-8). Because of Christ and what He has done for us, we are changed (or at least have the wonderful possibility of change). It is time we throw out the old and go with the clean and pure life offered to us through the forgiveness of Christ. We need not have anything buried in our tent. Sin that we try to bury up close to us that causes much greater harm, whether we realize it or not. We need not hold on to the old in our life that poisons what is fresh and new in Christ. Let it go! Be intolerant! Let's walk in a way that will please the Lord and make us happier too!
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