“There is an emptiness and an incredible sadness behind the state of our world without God.”

Erasmus (1466-1536), in his classic Handbook of the Militant Christian, advised us to “use temptation as a means to virtue.  If your inclinations are to be greedy and selfish, increase your donations to charity.  If you tend toward boasting, make a deliberate effort to be humble in all things.  This way you can find in temptation a renewed determination to increase in piety.  This procedure is the one that most galls Satan.  It makes him afraid to tempt you because nothing is more hateful to the Author of Evil than that he should be responsible for some good.”

“For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator–who is forever praised. Amen”–Romans 1:21-25.

“. . . remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ”–Ephesians 2: 12-13.

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