This is a blog I have been contemplating on writing for sometime. It is mainly written for the teens and kids who frequent my house and whom I care very deeply for. Of course most of them are boys because I have three sons.
There is rumor that boys will be boys and sin is knocking on the doorstep at an unprecedented rate in most of our lives. Times are more sinful and our human nature is enticed at an alarming rate. Most of the ideas we have are sexually motivated or focused on how we can fill the time with fun and laughter. After all, friendship is mostly based upon what the guys and gals do together and how much they can enjoy it.
Since pleasure is an all time adventure it pleads for us to look intently for it even if it is innappropriate. Our flesh just screams for us to fulfill our lusts. And to fulfill it the most simple and accessible way. It pleads for the easiest route without much notice. It matters not what anyone thinks about it.
Because of this many adults and children start off ruining their lives at a very early age and continue to ruin them even into late adulthood. We become what the ancient Greeks called epicureans or hedonists. The epicurens were more moderate but just as sinful.
Why am I bringing this up. It is because I have learned a few things in life and want to spare others from the harm I have caused and endured. In my teen years I was very wreckless. I ruined my Highschool years with drugs and alchohol. I also know kids who drank and did drugs who did good in school but became wash outs in life. I have quite a few Dead friends. The suicides and drug and alcohol overdoses are numerous. The Sexually transmitted diseases have also caused many problems like infertillity, life long diseases that can't be cured which cause sexual tensions with partners later on in life. Plus, lets not forget the deaths we can count due to other diseases.
I have heard it said that one shouldn't complain when one gets splinters by going against the grain of God's will. In other words bad living and Sin has consequences. If we don't learn how to discipline our feelings and thought lives we are destined to ruin some aspect of our lives.
I also want you guys to know that God is not a kill joy. He came to remind us of how much he loves us and how much He cares about us. He created us to be holy and enjoy most everything we desire. But he has an order for how we are to operate. And that order is called His perfect and good will.
He created Sex. It is a very wonderful thing. It was meant to be shared in a covenant relationship between one man and one woman. It was made for the enjoyment and communion of the marriage as well as for pro creating other little bundles of joy. But I am getting ahead of myself here. Let me show you something about Jesus the King of Kings and Creator of everything according to the Holy Bible.
In Matthew Chapter 4 the fallen angel named Lucifer came to tempt Jesus after He was baptized by John the Baptist. Jesus knowing his purpose on earth to save His people from their sins kept his focus, and this purpose was always on the forefront of His mind. He did not come here to get married and have children. He came to pay a price for our sin.
But I do know when Jesus came He was tempted and He didn't give into the temptation and sin that was against the Law of God. When Satan came and tempted Jesus he tempted Jesus with things that were to be God's will for His life.
Let's look at them.
In Matthew 4:3 Jesus was tempted to make bread from stones so he could eat when he was starved. Jesus replied back to Satan that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. He didn't do a miracle just because he could to fulfill his desire.
Then Satan took Jesus up to a high place in Matthew 4:5 & 6 and tempted Him to prove Himself to be the Son of God by saying "cast yourself down... God will send angels to save you." Jesus responded that No one should tempt the Lord God or put him to the test.
In Matthew 4:8-10 the Devil took Jesus to a high Mountain and revealed all the Kingdoms of the world to Him and told Him if He would bow down to himself (the Devil) Jesus could rule them all right now. To which Jesus only reminded Lucifer that he should worship the Lord God and only Him should he worship.
After that the Devil departed. I think Lucifer couldn't deceive Jesus as He did Adam and Eve and he gave up at this point.
I bring this up to show you all something. Jesus did all these things He was tempted to do by the Devil. He made bread miraculously. He fed thousands with it. He was delivered from death and stonings from the Jews who sought to kill him before His time to die for the sin of the world. And He is the King of King and Lord of Lords, the Beginning and the End. The Creator of all of Creation. He has always been worshipped and will someday be worshipped completely in the New Heavens and New Earth after His return. And by his becoming human He purchased souls from sins penalty, which is God's wrath against sin and Eternal Punishment.
My point in this is to show you all that adult things are reserved for adulthood and made for our good when these things are properly done in accordance with God's will. Even the fruit of the vine (alcohol) has its boundaries. When anything is done outside of these boundaries it causes hurt and pain. Just ask my kids. I am not innocent in any of this. But that is why I have needed a great Saviour who would save me from God's perfect wrath. We all need this forgiveness.
So in conclusion I am asking you guys to seek God's face and His wisdom so you guys can learn when it is God's time for doing the things He has created you for. If you don't you will inevitably do things the wrong way because there is a Tempter, The Worlds Ways, and the Lust of the Flesh. These are against you but God is for you. He wants you all to have a great life, even though there are many sacrifices to be lived out, and he wants you to have life abundantly. Sin will ultimately steal this from you and the Devil knows it.
Be careful that your hearts are not pulled away from what is correct and good. Our actions and thoughts do have eternal consequences. Once done they can't be changed or taken back. We still bare the consequences of our sin. We can only repent from sinful choices. I really do care and love you kids. And hopefully I will always be here for you no matter what. In the good and the bad.
Mat 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Mat 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
2Co 5:21 For he (God) hath made him (Jesus) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Joh 10:10 The thief (the Devil) cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I (Jesus) am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
(Pro 4:20) My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.(Pro 4:21) Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.(Pro 4:22) For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.(Pro 4:23) Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.(Pro 4:24) Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.(Pro 4:25) Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.(Pro 4:26) Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.(Pro 4:27) Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
(Php 2:5) Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:(Php 2:6) Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:(Php 2:7) But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:(Php 2:8) And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.(Php 2:9) Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:(Php 2:10) That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;(Php 2:11) And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
