Solomon's Porch: If Only For One Minute

Why should not a man take life as he finds it? 

• Many in our culture including those in the church are disillusioned
• and are sick of trying to find any rationality at the back of things, 
• they are revolting from it, and indulging every passion and appetite without restraint.

Always distinguish... 

• between the man who is naturally given to passion and appetite 
• and the man who goes into these things from revolt. 
• There is an irony and a bitterness and a criminality about the man who does it in revolt. 

In the same way... 

• there is a difference between laughter that is natural 
• and laughter that is a revolt. 
• There is nothing more awful than to hear laughter that is a revolt. 

The man who discovers...

• that he can find no way out may go into the pigsty and let every passion have its way; 
• but when a man has been gripped by purity and has seen God if only for one minute, 
• he may try and live in a pigsty but he will find he cannot, 
• there is something that produces misery and longing even while he lets loose his passions.

Adapted Excerpt From

Shade of His Hand

Oswald Chambers