Quality vs. Quantity

Morning Everybody,

Talk about ‘Quantity’ and ‘Quality’….

The world talks about quantity. I’m sure we are familiar with phrases like ‘the more the merrier’ and ‘the end justifies the means….’ On the other hand, God’s word talks about quality; ‘doing things right instead of doing the right things’ and that it is ‘the means that justifies the end’.

As Spirit-beings living on earth, our flesh is constantly torn between more of quantity, and ensuring quality. While our body craves for certain passions and desires, the Spirit of God inside us is constantly telling us ‘It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (Matt 4:4, Luke 4:4).

Unfortunately, our society is not helping matters at all. Talk about sex before marriage/fornication. There is a Yoruba proverb that says ‘nkan ti koda, koda, ko l’oruko meji’, meaning what is bad is bad; it doesn’t have 2 names. Society has so much condoled boyfriend/girlfriend union, that anybody with a contrary view is labelled ‘strange’ and ‘impossible’, you end up sticking out like a rotten finger.

Whether society, peer pressure, weather (in the UK, the cold of the winter season is an excuse for increased fornication. We could do with ‘body-heat’, you know...), or any other form of temptation, we all like Paul need to say: ‘But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified – 1 Corin 9:27

Yes, the temptation is ALWAYS there, whether you are a Pastor or just a church member, but nobody will draw the line for you, telling you where to choose quality over quantity. God’s word is clear about quality or quantity in all things. The ball lies in your court.

‘Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin…Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts…For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace…What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not – Rms 6:6,12,14,15

However, for some of us who have fallen into temptation before, we are not alone. Still using Paul as our example, the greater part of Romans 7 (vs. 7-25) talks about his struggles with sin. He says: ‘I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do…For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing…For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members…Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. – Rms 7: 15,19,22,23,24,25

And thank GOD, ‘THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death. Rms 8;1-2

Walk and Live Right, Choose Quality over Quantity.


Love, Janmo!