Yet another high profile, crusader of family values leader was caught with his pants down!

Last week, Eliot Spitzer was found out to have paid for the services of a high class call girl. It was especially embarrassing for him since he had been targeting prostition rings during his reign as governor of New York.

Some months/years?! back there was a another high profile case of a church leader who was found out to have been leading a closet homosexual life while publicly denouncing it.

What does one make of it?

Were they set up by their enemies? Were they just making a stand for morality publicly to win voters and look good?

I don't know. But I do know that all of us are really just one step away from the edge when we toy with sin.

Romans 3:23
"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God".

This scenario brought to mind the three common sins that snare great men and women, even godly men and women : girls (sexual sin), glory and greed.

I remember reading about this in John Crowder's book, Miracle Workers, Reformers and the New Mystics. He'd mentioned that these great men and women of God who walked so closely with God and were allowed the privilege of being God's vessel moving in great signs and wonders, were not immune to these sins either.

Speaking of The New Mystics (Crowder uses this term to refer to Godly people performing powerful signs and wonders as the apostles did), after I read the book, I was left wondering if only unmarried and childless men and women of God are allowed that kind of privilege of moving in signs and wonders. Afterall, one can only received that kind of power after long, long hours of communion with God. Now how is one supposed to have long hours of communion with God when you have a houseful of children?!

But then you have people like Brother Lawrence who says that even the simple act of cutting vegetables or gardening can be an act of worship!

Did you just go, "Huh?"

Well, I did until yesterday when I watched Rob Bell's Everything is Spiritual DVD. I finally accepted what my dh has been saying all along - "everything IS spiritual".  We've been so well trained to think one ought to be either spiritual OR practical but that is wrong.

Watch that DVD if you get a chance to (it's available at SKS Books) - Rob Bell says it so clearly and simply - everything should be spiritual with us because that's how God made us to be. There is no either/or. It just is.

Now - please don't ask me how to be spiritual while cutting vegetables or wiping someone's snot.  Obviously I am not there yet! I am still a work in progress and I truly thank God that He does not and will not give up on me.

Phil 1:6
"he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."

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