Sublime

For months I’ve been listening to the Word and banging my head against the wall, trying to reconcile my life with what the gospel demands. I’ve been trying to find some comfortable alternative between my life now and the radical idea of selling everything I own and leaving the comfortable life to take the gospel to the world. But I’ve realized

Don’t act as if you’re going to live ten thousand years! Death hovers over you, but it’s still in your power to be good!

meaning “one who speaks against.” The diabolic is, at its root, that which speaks against the human impulse to grow and experience life more fully. The Accuser is the voice that tells us that we have failed, that we are inadequate, that we have made the wrong choices, that we are unworthy, or that we are not attractive enough. This Accuser says