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<p>&quot;Lovers of <em>pleasure</em> — rather than lovers of God&quot; 2 Timothy 3:4<br><br>
Is the <em>love of pleasure</em> growing upon you, gaining the power and the ascendency over you? Is it dulling the keenness of your zest for spiritual pleasures? Is it making Bible-study, prayer, communion with Christ, meditation upon holy themes — less sweet enjoyments than before? Is it making your hunger for righteousness, for God — less intense? Is it interfering with the comfort and blessing you used to find in worship services, or in Christian work? <br />
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    If so, there is only one thing to do — hasten to return to God, cut off the pleasure which is imperilling the soul, and find in Christ the joy which the world cannot give, and which ever enhances the life. We must test all our <em>pleasures </em>and <em>amusements </em>by this rule — <em>Are they helping us to grow into Christ-likeness and spiritual beauty?</em>