Motherly advice

I read recently a passage that John Wesley’s mother wrote to him in college:

“Would you judge of the lawfulness of a pleasure, take this rule: whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes away the relish of spiritual things; whatever increases the authority of your body over your mind that thing is sin.”

Great advice for us all…and once we recognize what that sin is: Flee from it! Confess it! Ask for forgiveness!

And then move on.