Praise
yesterday i had quite the experience, i went to wise guys for country night. in Romans 13:13 it says ..."don't participate in wild parties and getting drunk, or in adultery and immoral living".... i went, i danced, i drank and had zero conviction. i wasn't drunk and wasn't one of the "wild partiers". as the night went on i watched those that were drunk and doing other disturbing things and i knew i wasn't suppose to be doing it. but i really wasn't bothered that they were. it was their lives and it's their decision not to live for Christ, and only God's gonna change their heart. if it had been a friend out there doing that, that i knew wanted to live for God i would have freaked out, hard-core!!!! don't get me wrong i want to evanglise to ppl, but i do that in class by being their friends, and having fun. it makes me sad that my religion has never came up, but that's fine, if God wants it to come up it will, i'm not ashamed!
yesterday i was on the bus and this guy started talking to me. i'm not gonna lie, i thought he was attractive and very much my type. i was interested until he started saying oh God all the time and not that that made me unattracted to him, but just something went off in my head, that no i don't want to be with him. i know that a relationship where both ppl's heart's aren't for God isn't going anywhere, no matter how attracked i might be.
the other day my roomate really wanted me to have a smoke with her, but i just resisted, which it usually doesn't take very much. now don't get me wrong this doesn't mean i'm never gonna smoke again (a good smoke every once in a while is a nice blessing), but to know that i have the power to decide when i'm gonna do it and that no one can make me, that's worth a lot.
i'm reading "a women's battle" or something like that. anyway they talked about flirting and how really it's jsut teasing. i had never thought of it like that and i realized that you should only do it when you're interested in someone. which sucks bc it's very fun and i'm really not interested in very many ppl. this is something i've always battled with bc well flirting is seriously great times!!!! but keeping this is mind it makes it a lot easier to not do it.
i know there are many more downs i could talk about, but it amazes me at how far God has taken me in the last year and a half. i feel like i'm a person with a Christain mindset of love and a relationship with Jesus, living in the world, rather then someone living outside of the world, for fear of failing. i'm not afraid anymore.
yesterday i was on the bus and this guy started talking to me. i'm not gonna lie, i thought he was attractive and very much my type. i was interested until he started saying oh God all the time and not that that made me unattracted to him, but just something went off in my head, that no i don't want to be with him. i know that a relationship where both ppl's heart's aren't for God isn't going anywhere, no matter how attracked i might be.
the other day my roomate really wanted me to have a smoke with her, but i just resisted, which it usually doesn't take very much. now don't get me wrong this doesn't mean i'm never gonna smoke again (a good smoke every once in a while is a nice blessing), but to know that i have the power to decide when i'm gonna do it and that no one can make me, that's worth a lot.
i'm reading "a women's battle" or something like that. anyway they talked about flirting and how really it's jsut teasing. i had never thought of it like that and i realized that you should only do it when you're interested in someone. which sucks bc it's very fun and i'm really not interested in very many ppl. this is something i've always battled with bc well flirting is seriously great times!!!! but keeping this is mind it makes it a lot easier to not do it.
i know there are many more downs i could talk about, but it amazes me at how far God has taken me in the last year and a half. i feel like i'm a person with a Christain mindset of love and a relationship with Jesus, living in the world, rather then someone living outside of the world, for fear of failing. i'm not afraid anymore.
posted by Cherise at 11:13 AM
1 Comments:
Hey Little One,
Bet you didn't know I read these. Oh yes, I do. And for the most part I comprehend, share, and endorse your valid experiences; however, this entry entitled a response and challange. I am always one to play devil advocate, express my opinion, or challange another to take a closer look at oneself, and I feel force, or urged to do so now. I am left considering why anyone (no offense or criticism to you directly, you know I love and resopect you) who has completely devoted their ife to god would even enter such an establishment. Not that I am stating that Christians, or shall I say Believers (as I myself believe there is an enormous difference), should never partake in the Drink, but the atmosphere of an environment such as 'Wise Guys' appears to be compromising of your values. By this I must admit I do mean specifically your own values.
Now, by directly pointing out that they are your values, you may begin questioning what I mean; thus I will attempt to explain myself as with a simple theory, you appear to be to amused by the happenings around you to entertain your own goals. I support the fact that you went out for a fun evening of dancing and hanging out. However, my infactuation with this issue lies in the concern you display regarding the remainder of the patrons. You appear to contradict yourself when stating, "it [is] their [life] and it's their decision not to live for Christ, and only God's gonna change their heart". My ultimate question for you is one of judgement. (I want you to know that I am not attempting to be critical, as I mentioned, but rather to challange you, to challange yourself, not your faith). You shared a space, a compound if you will, with other individuals not so different than you, and you disassociate yourself from them, thinking that you are different, maybe even better? You believe that you were not one of the "wild partiers", yet you, for a reason that I would love to explore, feel the need to point out there sin; however, you state, and I am paraphrasing, that they have no sin because they are not living for god. It is then that there are two moralities, one for Believers and one for the rest of humanity? How do you know that they do not believe, you yourself were in the same surroundings, dancing and drinking? How is it that you can lay such claims about strangers? Such things make me wonder about duel morality: if it does exist, how it can exist, and how a Believer in god could think it exists.
Once again, I am laying down an argument as a challange, not in anyway an attack on what you believe. You know me, I am full of wonder, constantly seeking an answer, pondering all of the possibilities and contradictions life and faith have to offer. So let me have it, little one, (or anyone else for that matter), reason out your case.
Love ya!
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