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What is godliness, anyway?
by Charles Swindoll
\\ THIS brings us to a bottom-line ques­tion I seldom hear addressed these days: What exactly does it mean to be godly?
Now be careful.
Try hard not to link your answer with a certain .1 geography or culture or traditional mentality.
It is easy to let our preju­dices seep through and erroneously define the concept on the basis of our bias.
•  Does it mean someone who lives \\ high up in the mountains, cuts wood \\ to heat his log cabin, and reads his \\ Bible under the flickering flame of a \\ kerosene lamp?
•  Or how about this?
The godly \\ person must be old, deliberate, one
   who prays for hours every day, and doesn't watch much television.
Is that godliness?
•  Can a person be godly and yet \\ competitive in business, keen think­ \\ ing, and financially successful?
•  Is it possible  to be  godly and \\ drive a Porsche... and never get mar­ \\ ried and... (hold on!) not go to church \\ every Sunday evening?
•  Does being holy require that I \\ squat on a hillside, strum a guitar with
    my eyes closed, eat a bagful of bird­seed, and write religious music from the book of Psalms?
• Are people disqualified if they \\ are good athletes or if they are famous \\ entertainers (with agents!) or if they \\ are rich or if they have champagne \\ tastes or if they wear diamonds and \\ furs?
Can anybody in that category
\\ be a godly Christian?
~* One more... and this may hurt.
How about believers who still strug­gle, who don't have some of the theo­logical issues settled, who don't un­derstand many of the hymns sung in church, who don't read a lot of mis­sionary biographies ... and who don't necessarily go along with the whole Moral Majority package?
Oh, oh... now I've done it.
So far you have been willing to hang in there with me, but now you really aren't sure.
Before you categorize me, tar and feather me, and toss everything out — baby and bathwater alike — please understand that I'm just asking a few questions.
I'm probing, honest­ly trying to discover the answer to a simple question: What is godliness?
You'll have to agree that it can't be confused with how a person looks (hard as it is for us to get beyond that) or what a person drives or owns.
As tough as it is for us to be free of envy and critical thoughts, it is imperative that we remind ourselves that "God looks on the heart" (1 Samuel 16:7); therefore, whatever we may say god­liness is, it is /not /skin deep.
It is some­thing below the surface of a life, deep down in the realm of an attitude... an attitude toward God himself.
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From /Strengthening Your Grip, /by Charles Swin­doll.
© 1982 Charles Swindoll.
To be released in July 1982 by Word Books Publishers, Waco, Texas 76796.
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\\ *CHRISTIAN**       HERALD*
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