What If One Decides Not To Flee?

Dr. Jarlath Uche Opara
Jarlathuche@gmail.com

One will fall head on, head and neck broken possibly. Give me a break righteousness! Cut some slack for me holiness! I am choking, the air of iniquitiy, my flesh craves for oh righteousness you paint black as if it was evil. Give me some break!! Our carnal mind would say!

Our carnal mind would always suggest how nice a pleasure sin gives to the old and unbroken nature which it relishes so greatly. It keeps pushing, giving one reason why one should alway breath such air as if one would die if one doesn’t. Nobody would die, basking in the euphoria of Godly presence, one would instead.

Sin is evil, it stinks and stenches but carnal mind would always scent it with an aroma so irresitable, craving and falling for it becomes so compelling only the heart with a deep influence of the Holy Spirit would escape without hurt, harm or wound.

What if one decides not to flee from the suggestions, the temptations, the allurement of sin? The fantasies that come with the force and might of sin would sweep off carnal feet, leaving one with an unexplainable feeling that last for a while

I know ones inner mind would rebel against it, I know how empty and worn out one would feel by not fleeing , enjoying the momentary pleasure, the brief passion and the short- lived stiring and tickling that come from indulging the flesh.

Sin gives a false feeling of pleasure at the intial stage, with consequences that are damning , killing and destructive thereafter.

What if you decide not to flee? You will enjoy the momentary pleasure, no doubt , basking in its destructive euphoria, relish its poison, coated with swetness but the purge and destruction it would leave you with, very colossal.

Nobody that decides not to flee from sin wins the war. Nobody with flesh and blood has seen stood against the moving train of the concupiscence of the flesh without being crushed. Not fleeing from sin may be pleasurable to a mind that desires and craves to have a bite of the apple of sin, but when the juice is sucked in, the pains that would become an after effect very excruciating.

Flee! The best decision, so wise a path to follow, nothing could be a better choice than to flee. We are human not stones. Flesh and blood our basic components, these two are mere straw before the force of temptation.

Just flee! You certainly would fall if you don’t flee. Just flee, there is no tropy to be won arguing with temptation, your joints and bones certainly would break, regret and remorse the only available tropy for your battered self thereafter

Flee!! Joseph flee, his destiny and life purpose well secured. Samson flee not, he argued with his carnal self , cuddled and romanced it, his destiny and purpose diminished and bleaked prematuredly.

My name is flee! I have no time to argue with sin, thinking through the suggestions of sin, enough war to fight. Flee is my name! My weakness I know, my strenght I equally know. Rubbing shoulder with sin, no matter how small very idoitic. No human wins an argument with sin, somehow ones thought gets corrupted, the will power weakened and compromised.

What seemed unattractive suddenly becomes a thought where ones mind feeds on. Just flee!!

No human has power over sin, not even these late Popes. They never had such power, their flesh very much alive till death , creaving for its demands.
Flee! was their ace in the hole. They all flee, keeping sin and its appearances at abeyance. They just flee!!

Self control is good, continence a good virtue but flaunting them before a raging crave and desire for sin would be counterproductive, just flee! But if one decides not to flee, destruction becomes ones cocktail, soul damned in the stoking fire of emptiness and lack of Godly presence.