Get your own way (?)

It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: 

repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; 

a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; 

frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; 

trinket gods; 

magic-show religion; 

paranoid loneliness; 

cutthroat competition; 

all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; 

a brutal temper; 

an impotence to love or be loved; 

divided homes and divided lives; 

small-minded and lopsided pursuits; 

the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; 

uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; 

ugly parodies of community. 

I could go on.

This isn’t the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God’s kingdom.

-- Letter to the Galatians.

#reminder