Thursday, November 22, 2007
Temptation
Temptation... Have you heard ppl say yes i can stay away from it, yes i can control myself from it, I will be fine, i am strong enough to stay away from it, my self control is good...
well the thing is... yes we can control but not all the time, yes we can self control but not all the time, yes we can stay away from it but not all the time... you see we are not as strong as mentally as we think... I mean definetly we can say no to it at times but at times we can't...
I have learned the lesson that the more we grow further away from God, the more we grow distant from his words, the more we would live like the world, the more the things that God strongly doesn't want us to fall to, the more those things becomes principles and not things that God wants us not to do because we have grown far from God.
People may ask questions like... so what? there is nothing wrong with living worldly...
Well there is nothing wrong now but there will be later... well it's not technically wrong.. I mean there is nothing wrong with clubbing itself... nothing wrong with drinking alcohol itself BUT ... the more we grow worldly, the more sin is able to come through. PICTURE THIS... SAY there is a circle filled up with God's words, love and etc...but the moment we grow far from God's word, the circle now has a hole in it and it slowly empties the the circle that is filled with God's words, love and etc. The more we live wordly... the bigger hole it grows and normally a hole is black so the circle becomes black. So the bigger the hole gets, the more space that sin can enter. The things we once believe we shouldn't do, now becomes things that is I don't mind to do because we are distant from God, and things can now easily tempt us because the sword of God's word is now blunt. Well you see... when we are far from God, it's very easy to drift from God, and our self control cannot be realiable... It's God who we should rely on...We can't rely on ourselves because we are human... and humans are not strong... we are only mentally strong to a certain limit... the more we live Godly... the more we are able to stay from temptation and the more the purpose of why we do it will stand strongly...
We can nver do it alone... we can never live Life the way God wants to in our own control OR our own strength... BUT we can Live life God wants us to IN God's strength and wisdom.
We are just human who sin. but God is the God who created this world and who loves us and sent his son to die for us. He gave us grace, love, guidance, strength and wisdom and much more.
God is awesome
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Free to Fly... ;
Bernie Tan praised Jesus at 7:52 PM
