Cure for Vice

He worked himself to death. He was the accountant of the company that I was assigned to audit. He attended to his tasks efficiently and diligently. I became curious though as he was extremely thin and looked sickly. Further queries revealed that after office hours, he would play majong with his buddies until the early hours of the morning. With little sleep, he would report to the office for his daytime job. A few years later, I learned that he died of tuberculosis. I pray that his soul rests in peace.

Vice can suck the life out of people. It detaches one from reality, from the world, from friends and from loved ones. It leaves a vacuum in one’s self. It starves one’s spirit of nourishment from God. “But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and cares of this life, and Day will come on you unexpectedly.” (Luke 21:34)

People tend to delay therapy for vice. Letting go of pleasures of the flesh can be tormenting. Once accustomed to a vice, the flesh dictates the spirit. The temporal drugs the eternal. Today is the day to deny the serpent of vice, Satan; for any further postponement may leave the soul damned forever. “For He says: ‘In an acceptable time, I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you.’ Behold now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation.” (2 Corinthians 6:2)

The cure of vice: “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfil its lust.” (Romans 13:14)

by Mel Libre