A neat analogy came to my mind during Pastor Jack's Go Fish message tonight; actually, it's totally off topic from the message, but hey.
Holiness lifestyle standards for the true Christian (True Worshipper who worships God in Spirit and in Truth) are analagous to programming and development standards for a Programmer Analyst such as myself. Sure, you can ignore them or cut corners in the short term, but it will definitely come back to bite you and you'll eventually find yourself in a big ole mess. It will eventually bring the whole thing crashing down around you.
Now take that thought and use building a house as the analogy instead. Presto! I give you the parable of two house builders, as told by Jesus himself. One built on rock, the other on sand... That had to have been against building code, even back in the day. Guess which house fell down when bad weather hit. ;)
The analogy applies for the seasoned Christian as well as the non-believer, only in different ways. The non-believer needs to get on the rock and build there. The believer (hearer and doer of the Word) needs to stay on the rock and continue building and living there. Cut corners and you're just asking for trouble. This is true no matter who you are or where you're at in your walk with God. God's not a respector of persons, but he is a respector of principles. If you've been around church all your life, it doesn't mean you have "earned points" and can slack off.
It comes back to submission, more specifically, submission to God, Godly leadership and to God's word, the Bible. Man so much ties into submission.. We can't even resist the devil successfully until we're in submission to God. Anyway, I'm getting off topic.
Neat thought. I'll have to flesh it out a bit; add in the scripture references.
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