December 30, 2008
Making the news today was the subject of abstinence. The abstinence they are talking about here is not having sex before marriage. Recent study shows that the abstinence teaching that is being done in schools are not working. The purity ring some wear to show the vow or promise they made to themselves, to God, and their future spouse is not working as the “study shows.”
Some have broken their promise and found themselves in situations that birth control would have been a better solution than abstinence teaching one lady said. Her logical advice was to stop abstinence teaching that doesn’t work and is just a waste of money.
Kids don’t listen. It works if you make it work. You will get yourself into situations where you may fall away from your promise to be pure. We all have our moments of stumbling, being weak but that should never stop us from doing what we know is right in God’s eyes. Our lives must never be based on what the “study shows” but what God wants for us.
If we went off the logic of the world we should be shutting down all Alcoholic Anonymous clubs, gambler addiction organizations, diet programs, drug rehabs, and anything else because they just don’t seem to work. In a day or two it will be entering a new year. A time where people make New Year resolutions to stop smoking, lose weight, do this or do that.
The fact is most of those resolutions are broken in less than a month. Does that make them a waste of time and effort? They can be if we don’t discipline ourselves to move forward and deal with these things in our lives. A lot of these represent areas of weakness that need to be strengthened not given in to.
Our resolution should be to learn self-discipline and how to apply it to our lives in a healthy manner using the Lord Jesus to see us through and give us what we need to succeed. Using God, through the help of His Holy Word and Spirit, to teach us how to stand up to Satan and the temptations he puts our way.
If you stumble, get back up, repent to God for your shortcoming and seek to learn from your mistakes that they will not be frequently repeated. You are a temple of God, a dwelling place where He wants to live, take care of that temple. Don’t measure yourself against the kid next to you on how easy they seem to bounce back from something they do. We all have our areas of weakness and strengths. Deal with your own not someone else’s. The avenue of prayer is a good place to start. Pray that God will help you where you are weak while using your strengths to glorify Him.
Copyright 2008 Karen J. Gillett @ Pencil Marks and Recipes Publishing
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- Karen
- I reside in Oregon, with my husband of 32 years. I'm a mother of one and grandmother of six, counting my two newly adopted grandsons. I teach a women’s Bible Study. In June of 2007 God asked me to take with me the things I had learned in my own Christian walk to help those traveling down similar roads. A journey that started with a head injury in Jr. High School and the epilepsy it was to create later for 7 long years. One day I was given the key to my cure. In order to have the surgery to cure the 10% of my seizures that were truly epileptic I was told I had to get rid of first the 90% that were stress caused. For the next five years I took my stress issues to the Lord, leaning and relying on Him and His word as well as catchy sayings of others to see me through. As peace, obedience to God and giving up bad habits replaced worry, stubbornness and disobedience my stress seizures began to disappear. Finally I qualified for the surgery. The end result after 20 years has been being seizure free and pill free all those years. Praise the Lord. God is the cure. I can be contacted at karijo_fluffy@yahoo.com.
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