Your Spiritual Bacon

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Growing up Jewish, I became aware of a strange inconsistency in many Jewish homes. Most Jewish people don't eat pork. However, in many of the same Jewish homes that despise pork, you'll often find bacon. It's an unspoken paradox. The fact is, bacon is pork. It may not look like ham but it's the same thing - it's pork. My point is not about the law of eating pork or even about bacon. The point is that human nature tends to blur the lines. We mix the holy with the unholy. We slack off on discerning what is spiritually kosher and what is spiritually unkosher. We let a little sin come in our life and think that it's okay - it's not really that bad, it's just a little bacon. But even a little compromise will end up robbing your joy, your peace, and your strength. Get that spiritual bacon out of your life. Put it away. Compromise is complicated but victory is simple. Call it what it is - unkosher. Put away that unclean thing and do God's will. Repent of it and you'll become 100% certified kosher and blessed in the Spirit.

From Message #912 - Cool and Uncool