Hard Core Holiness

I had an "epiphanous major" yesterday. As I've been battling towards holiness, one imperfect day at a time, I've been learning how easy it is to get tainted by the world, the flesh and the devil. This will not change as I get further up and further in. A fact that is a little daunting at times. The epiphany was mathematical in nature, thus: if holiness is indeed greater than the world, the flesh and the devil, then holiness is the only way to cancel their impact, making them into the equivolent of negative numbers. (H > wfs) Therefore H + wfs = -wfs At least in theory. This is where the Evil Mathematician appears in all his cloaked and masked maleficence. The holier we get, the greater a mark we are for the enemy. Therefore the nearer we get to the Lord the more temptation he'll throw at us. And the more we're perfected, the more we have to lose by a fall (which he knows), so the more armored we need to stay against the world, the flesh and the devil. But the only true armor is more holiness, so what we have here is an upward spiral that needs to be pursued tenaciously.

Holiness is both our treasure and the weapon by which we guard it. We must learn to use it aggressively. This is not some ethereal, pie in the sky concept. It's hard core, practical, necessary. Neither nice nor safe.