Cutting the budget …

It doesn’t matter what side of the isle most American politicians are on, they seem to not have an understanding of what “cutting” means.

For most, it simply means reducing the rate of growth. For example, if a program costs a million dollars (ha! that would be dirt cheap), instead of increasing the rate of growth for the following year by an anticipated seven percent, they only increase growth by three percent.

To politicians, that’s a cut.

To citizens, that’s an increase of three percent!

Some Christians try to apply the same kind of thinking to their spiritual lives. Instead of cutting sin, and pursing holiness as God has instructed us to, we instead are satisfied with a reduction of sin. Maybe we cut out the more obvious and seemingly ominous things, but allow other sinful habits to continue unabated in our lives.

To some, that’s cutting sin.

To God, that’s continuing in sin.

What is it to you?

“So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. For the Scriptures say, ‘You must be holy because I am holy,'” 1 Peter 1:14-16.

Scotty