Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Flee from temptation
Okay. if any of you are saying that my blog is dead.... so be it. haha i started to blog when i felt like getting something off my chest, and i will continue to do the same. quoting from A.W Tozer, the only thing i shall write are things "that flow from the heart, forced out by the inward pressures." of course he was talking about writing a book, but sama sama la huh?
2 Tim 2:22 calls us to flee! flee from youthful passions. And im gonna be honest here, i dont know about you GUYS(yes for alot of you belonging to the strange female kind, it may not necessarily make sense to you at all), but that becomes harder and harder to do in an ever degrading society that we live in. and by degrading society, i really mean in conservativeness.
Seldom people hear my secret stand against FBTs. i personally dont understand how shorts that look like underwear(really any kind) can be wore so casually on the streets, although i dont really have a major thing against this. But this, is not what im talking about here.
What i am refering to, is the hot oral topic of the year, (yes it is! my teacher said so! hahaha), on Singaporean youths being very open in their expressions of love. and it really wasnt until i had the discussion in class when i started to realise the severity of the situation. as i was going to church from school one fine day, it was made not so fine with couples making out, literally everywhere i turn. and i would know because when i saw the first one, i actually continued reading my book. but was rather disturbed and distracted, so i turned the other way, only to see a similar scene. and then the train came, i walked in, same thing, all around. and im not exaggerating!
As i look at 2 Tim 2:22 again, i am then reminded, that it doesnt just stop at flee, and this goes out to all you people who actually face a similar situation as myself. for if you were to flee, where shall you flee too?(like really in my situation!) it says "pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, ALONG WITH THOSE WHO CALL ON THE LORD FROM A PURE HEART."(emphasis added). is it not clear? where else can we find righteousness, love and peace, where else can our faith be in that would fully satisfy ourselves and glorify God but in Christ? in calling on Him! in seeking Him with fellow believers!
Looking at the society that we live in, one cannot help but realise what a great need for Christ they have, we have! but thankfully, what a great Christ we have for our need! shall we still stay hiding in our cocoon and struggle alone in secret, or shall we seek the fellowship of believers, under the unity and covering of the Church and go forth to share God's love, in love that binds all things!
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