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Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. "I am willing," he said. "Be clean!" Mark 1:41 NIVWhat we touch can make us unclean. Pornography is a perfect example. Touch it and be stained. This is one reason why holiness seems so painful to so many of us. We imagine we will achieve it by not touching. I won’t touch lust, greed, envy, bitterness, pride, gluttony, hatred, perversion, gossip, and the list goes on. Keeping clean in this way can be very tiresome. Especially if something inside me wants to lust after that woman walking down…

… we proclaim to you the eternal life which was with the Father and has appeared to us. — 1 John 1:2Eternal life is a good thing. It’s as good as anything gets. But it’s not good because it’s really, really, really long. It’s not good because it doesn’t end. It’s good because it’s connected to a Person.Years ago I was asking the Lord what heaven would be like. His answer was simple: "I’m going to be there and you’re going to be there. What else matters?"As an aside: Some of us have loved ones who aren’t going to be…