We join with Selwyn for another day looking at his third pillar of wisdom – personal purity.
I liked this bit in today’s study: “There’s not much point in confessing to be a follower of Jesus Christ if you don’t believe what He tells you in His Word (Scripture) and change it to suit your convenience. Passion has always been a problem, but wisdom and passion must be properly related. You must recognise the necessity of learning to wait (especially regarding sexual activity, it’s only blessed within marriage), which is one of the first evidences that you are growing in maturity.”
Selwyn’s message ends with the key statement: “You must learn to deny yourself now so that in the future you may experience the right thing in the right way.”
Perhaps, this last statement, can be taken even further, with some people; it could be the case that they may need to sacrifice a specific activity for their entire lives, for spiritual reasons The important point is that we are only on this earth for eighty or so years – this means that you have something less than 80 years to demonstrate by your free-will actions, your response to God’s unmerited love. The consequences of your response, will be with you – not for eighty years, or eight hundred billion years, or 10 to the power of 23 trillion years; but forever. It sort of puts the sacrifices of this life into perspective, our whole life here on earth is less (in proportion) than a heart beat in the next life.
Take it on faith!
We join with Selwyn for another day looking at his third pillar of wisdom – personal purity.
I liked this bit in today’s study: “There’s not much point in confessing to be a follower of Jesus Christ if you don’t believe what He tells you in His Word (Scripture) and change it to suit your convenience. Passion has always been a problem, but wisdom and passion must be properly related. You must recognise the necessity of learning to wait (especially regarding sexual activity, it’s only blessed within marriage), which is one of the first evidences that you are growing in maturity.”
Selwyn’s message ends with the key statement: “You must learn to deny yourself now so that in the future you may experience the right thing in the right way.”
Perhaps, this last statement, can be taken even further, with some people; it could be the case that they may need to sacrifice a specific activity for their entire lives, for spiritual reasons The important point is that we are only on this earth for eighty or so years – this means that you have something less than 80 years to demonstrate by your free-will actions, your response to God’s unmerited love. The consequences of your response, will be with you – not for eighty years, or eight hundred billion years, or 10 to the power of 23 trillion years; but forever. It sort of puts the sacrifices of this life into perspective, our whole life here on earth is less (in proportion) than a heart beat in the next life.
What do you think?