My lifestyle has changed this summer. I believe that we as believers have so much more responsibility than just hanging out with friends and socializing. We have such a greater calling on our lives. Our pleasure can not be the only answer to life, for pleasure is fleeting. Lenord Griffith in his book titled ?God?s time and ours? states that ?Satan Temps us at the point of our physical needs. Not that we might gratify them to excess, but that we may think of nothing else and gratify them at the expense of our usefulness in this world. Satan temps us at the point of our ambitions. Not that we might engage in positive evil, but simply except the fact of evil, learn to live with it, come to terms with it and maintain a discrete silence in the presence of it. Satan temps us at the point of our religion. Not that we might disbelieve in God, but that we might demand certainty, that kind of certainty that leaves nothing to faith, nothing to God Himself. These are the moral struggles that have reality for people such as we are. The subtle temptations to renounce our duty in favor of what is attractive, that insidious allurement to a kind of a half goodness which is the essence of everything bad. And which is more productive of suffering and hatred, war and misery in this world than all the desires of wicked and greedy people combined?. Isn?t that statement challenging? I love it!
3 comments:
don't forget that while good deeds will show our love for God and others... it cannot take the place of "socializing"... for it's through personal relationships that we not only grow and learn, but that we are able to be Godly witnesses and examples. :-) Just a thought from someone who wants to hang out with you.
I threw this together for Beth and thought I would pass it on..Have a good one.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1133060911
What are the points at which satan tempts us?
The "points" of a woman's breasts!
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