"Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness..." I thought, to "deny" ourselves of something is not to partake of something that may be tempting. For example we might "deny" ourselves of that second piece of cake. It may be satisfying for the moment but it's not good for us. So to deny ourselves of all ungodliness would mean not doing anything that would be contrary to what God would do, no matter how tempting it is. Now, I think most of us do a good job at denying ourselves of ungodliness when it comes to big things, like in the Ten Commandments - we don't murder or steal or those kinds of things.
But what about things that might not seem so major. What about things like envy, jealousy,
laziness, anger, hate, forgetting to say prayers, not being grateful. The list goes on. My conclusion is that as I go throughout daily life I need to be more mindful of things I do or say or think that would not be what God would do, and do a better job of denying myself of all ungodliness.
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I think ungodliness is anything that distracts us or leads us away from Heavenly Father. Maybe it can even be different things for different people. I think the world in general is very ungodly and it seems like the straight and narrow path is getting narrower all the time.
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