Everyone seems to be able to understand the consequences of poor eating habits and lack of exercise but for some reason, many people disregard the obvious long-term impact. If one is involved in an unhealthy lifestyle for long periods of time, the quality of life will be lower, and the length of life will be shorter.
The same is very much true in regards to spirituality. To live a life that disregards spiritual health, the result is comparable. The quality of life will be poor, and the state of eternity will mirror the type of life one lived in the physical body. To love God, to love one’s neighbor, and to pursue holiness are a lifestyle for which man was created. To live otherwise is to be less than human.
To live in such a way is to malform one’s soul, which will have a permanent impact on the state of one’s eternity. The torment that Christianity describes for those who did not seek after a relationship with God is not torment from the hands of demonic powers or from the hand of God but is instead a self-imposed state of misery.
One will experience for eternity the misery of not being truly human and will have no one to blame but himself. God has provided all the means for men to be truly human but if effort is not made on man’s part to be so, he will spend eternity in a state of regret, having formed his soul into something unnatural.
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