Take pleasure in being holy, pure, clean, godly. It is much more satisfying and enjoyable than being dirty, once the mind is properly enlightened and adjusted. The natural man is dirty in all his thoughts and operations; "dirty" from God's point of view, for all is of the flesh, from top to bottom -- and the natural works of the flesh are all uncleanness. Man is like an untaught small child, loving mud and filth. To the human point of view, some natural works of the flesh seem more perverted than others, because natural man as a society has, from age to age, certain self-imposed and varying "standards" -- largely as a result of some faint residue of light from original divine instructions. Greece and Rome had lost all this, and were vile. "Christianity" brought a glimmer back to society, at least on the surface, up to recent times. Today "standards" of decency and morality are practically non-existant: and mankind is rapidly going back to total filth and defilement. But to God, these natural distinctions of society are minor. To Him, ALL that is natural is unclean. He calls man out of the natural filth to the wholesome joy and beauty and glory of true, clean, eternally-satisfying holiness. Those who truly try it are ceaselessly thankful for their redemption, and appalled at what they formerly approved.

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