There’s no question that, as a society, we are becoming increasingly desensitized to all things sex. There are studies that suggest only 3% of people wait until marriage to have sex. Others have suggested that only 20 percent of Christians wait until marriage to have sex. This study suggests that 61% of Christians say they would have sex before marriage.
Have you encountered people who are full of themselves? Did you find them to be wearisome? The need to dominate a conversation and prove worth are not attractive qualities. You do not know what gave rise to their insecurity and neediness and even if you do you are not to judge them any more than you would someone else. Yet they can serve as a lesson to you of a road you do not want to take. What type of people are you attracted to? Isn’t it those who carry themselves lightly, with no apparent need to prove their worth to you? You do well to emulate this attitude but it doesn’t happen automatically. Find your identity in me and it will be secure.
Today we're going to have my daughter, Charity Kayembe, share the next segment of her exciting blog series with us.
Do you find that people talk about topics of interest to them? I said that the gentiles seek after the things that they eat, drink, and wear. Do you find yourself less and less interested in these conversation topics of your friends who are not seeking my Kingdom? Do you find that your conversations with those walking the same path you are to be refreshing and full of life? I said that those who feared the Lord spoke often one to another and I hearkened and heard it, and wrote a book of remembrance for those who feared me and thought upon my name, and they shall be mine when I make up my special treasure. You want to be in this book.
What would you like to know?
God speak to me this morning.
What would you like to know?
Wow crazy. That’s you?
It’s me.
You, God? You’re asking what I want to know?
Yes.
You sure?? In the bible it’s only when someone’s been really good that you ask them stuff like that – almost acting as though you were their servant.
My word teaches you that some men’s sins go beforehand and some follow after. Some sins have visible effects and others are easier to keep secret. Are you more concerned about sins that everyone can see? Yet according to the verse the other sins will follow you even though they are invisible, and they will eventually become obvious. Could these be more dangerous and destructive than the first type? For there is an immediate incentive to deal with visible sin, but invisible sin can grow large undetected and be more difficult to deal with. Search and try your ways and judge yourself that you may be pure within and without and not be judged.
I stood in line waiting for my turn to pay as my kids anxiously waited to gorge themselves on a buffet of pizza and salad…maybe on the salad….probably not on the salad. As I was waiting I couldn’t help but survey the room. I noticed couples and families with young kids running around trying to find the game room. It was a tapestry of smiles and laughter.
Then I saw four people sitting around a square table, two women and two men. They were older, 60’s maybe, and I could tell they’d been friends for some time by the way they interacted with each other. There was a comfort there that’s only developed over time.
The most primitive rule for living is to avoid pain and seek pleasure. The most elementary forms of life will do this. It is a stimulus -response immediate gratification approach. Yet have you not faced difficulties voluntarily and delayed gratification to seek better eventual outcomes? This indicates a higher view of life and this progression continues upward to the ultimate view of life. If in this world only you trust in me you are of all men most miserable, but you are called to a city founded in heaven. Your spiritual sojourn may seem to add to your trials and tribulations in this world but these are not worthy to be compared to the glory to be revealed in you.
Today we're going to have my daughter, Charity Kayembe, share the next segment in her exciting blog series with us.
Be blessed!
I told you not to cast your pearls before swine, or give that which is holy to dogs. Do you find this to be a troubling passage in a book of gracious words? Obviously these references are to people and you are to preach the gospel to every creature. Must your now decide which people are swine? These are not permanent classes of people. You have come far in your walk with me, and even those who are saved may not be ready to receive the pearls I am giving you now. Offer to lead onward those who are ready, but do not force the issue. Remember how long it took you to get where you are and offer the same grace to others.
