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Dear Child of God,

Lord, help us overcome all temptations!

Love, ECIM

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Zombie - Georgie Pollard

“This combination of life and death in a single image is rendered literal with Georgina Pollard’s painting, Zombie which was made by wrapping cooked rice in muslin and placing it in the leaf fall at the base of a tree in the bush. The rice becomes a medium for bacterial culture, fungus and other microorganisms, which quickly grow and cover the surface of the cloth. The resulting decomposition was then stretched and the painting produced as the residual forms and colouration of the teaming life that produced it. While the painting is itself produced by the processes of decay, it is also literally a living artwork. At the same time, the title of the work and its clear extension of the logic of Andy Warhol’s Factory into the natural world suggest that our own culture proceeds by a similar dynamic.”

We are always at risk of falling. We, Christians, are always at risk of falling away from our Savior since this world has turned our surroundings as our constant temptation. Paul reminded us in his letter to the Corinth about our Israelites ancestors who complained, worshiped idols and had immoral relationships and God grew unhappy about them. 

We always have that risk of doing the same thing as they are and make God unhappy because again, He is a holy God. So let us all be reminded that even if we think that we are standing firm, we should always be careful that we do not fall. It just takes one fall and we are back into our sinful cycle. 

Again, God is a good and loving God. He promised that when we are tempted He will give us a way out for us to endure it. So whenever we try to sin again, always find that way out God has provided you so you can endure it. Also remember that it is not an exit way, but it is a way out for you to ENDURE! You have to endure and constantly say ‘no’ without giving because God will give you the strength to do that. 

Just like the message of cross, when God sees that we are already so buried with sin, He sent His Son to redeem us. Jesus Christ is like our way out, but also we have to believe in Him because only through Him we are saved. 

Jesus left the comforts of heaven to become our Savior and not only our Savior but also our Lord and God. He wants us to say ‘no’ to everything that can harm us physically and spiritually. He has bought us at a high price and so when we think that we are standing firm, this is the best time to run back to God and ask for His strength because most of the time, the more we think we are standing firm, the more we are weak. 

Let us not rely on our own strength but rely on God, submit everything to Him so we will not fall and do the things our ancestors did. Let us find that way out so we will be able to endure all the temptation.

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