Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Honesty Today – 01/07/09 – One view from the world…
Praise the Lord! I was sitting here getting ready to do something on line when this title hit me…”Top Ten Resolutions Not to Make This Year” So I figured I would check it out…the numbers 1 – 9 were either making sense or just plain common sense, a couple of them were just nonsense…yet number 10 was really a HUGE lie from the pit of hell and what is really keeping a lot of people in bondage. SEX – UNMARRIED SEX! 10. Keep your number down. Reality check: Nothin’ wrong with notches on your bedpost, as long as you’re being safe
Let me say this…this nation and the world is really sad on their views of sex. I think people take it to the extreme and place so much on the feeling of it, that it has destroyed many, not just the unsaved but the saved. One of the biggest issues with the church is not addressing this issue with their young people, single people, and married people. I am not talking about the minister standing in the pulpit with his wife, with a bedroom behind them and then the minister preaching on sex and marriage. No I am not talking about that…I am talking about having classes and things on this very subject. I believe if more of us not just preach abstinence BUT teach abstinence which is not just scriptures but the tools to keep sex out of relationship that is not a marriage AND how to keep sex in a relationship that is a marriage. There are sisters and brothers out there who have done it, who have enjoyed a life of abstinence, and those that have enjoyed a marriage full of love and sex. LOL Yet they are being silenced many times as there are “more important” things to discuss.
This rise in the way the world views sex has hit us in so many ways, our children are having children at much younger ages than ever before. It is not uncommon that I thirteen year old is pregnant…it is not uncommon that a 16 year old has an STD, it is even not uncommon for a 18 year old to have more than child either fathered by him or being raised by her. We have remained silent for so long…yet there is nothing being done. I drive past several churches on my way to church, store, work, and whenever we leave our house…yet they have NEVER knocked on my door. There is a church a stone throw away from my house, and sure they pick up the garbage on the street about every 3 months, but I have never had one of them approach me to witness to me. We drive past countless churches with signs to get people to come to their church, some of them have neon signs, some have flashing signs, some just have stationary signs, yet all the signs in the world will not get anyone to come to their church. LOL
I was thinking about that…when I was not saved, I did not care what the church was doing, I was not trying to go to church and I was not thinking about God. It was when I was going through did church ever enter my mind…why did it enter my mind? I was staying with my aunt at the time and she was on her way to church. I was staying with her and her music penetrated my heart and made me feel comfort. I wanted my pain to stop – I was given an opportunity to change and took it…it was a long process to get here but yet and still…I am here. BUT…I wonder if I would have not been at her house would I have had thought to go to church…I doubt it because I had been going through that stuff already at my house and just not feeling it. I was tired but did not know where to get rest. It is in witnessing and being there for others do we reach the lost…the unsaved do not want to get saved….well I know when I was not saved…church was not on my mind. It was not until I needed Him did I see that I had to come to Him with my whole heart and mind.
We are in a new year, and it is not always easy to witness to others but we need to do so or the view of the world will continue to look like it is and proceed to get worse because there will not be many who will hear and come to the Lord. So if you are a pastor of a church with a flashy church sign…my dear brother or sister – if it was to attract people to come to your church…someone lied to you and had you waste money that you could have spent on feeding the homeless, clothing the naked and visiting those that need you…sounds like to me a trick from the enemy. The only way to win souls to Christ is to get out there where the souls are! AMEN!!!
My honesty today for me…I get so nervous when I am trying to mention Jesus to those that I really do not know. I am not like my hubby who will boldly ask “Do you know Jesus?” as I am more of a “feel the waters” with someone…I have learned though that even a negative response can be used…actually a negative response is better to me as that gives me something to work on or questions to ask. A positive response for me is more digging…something that I do not really like to do with strangers. Yet those are the ones that need the most witnessing to. I have learned that I am planting seeds and that not everyone is going to understand what I am saying at the time I am saying it. There is even a big chance that they will not get it and that they will end up lost but that is not my choice or my fault…as long as we spread the gospel as He said we should, I know that my part is done. I want to make sure I do what He is called me to do and that is what my goal for my entire life is…whether or not anyone else does their cannot consume my life – it may take hold of my thoughts for a time but that means to pray for them and then keep on moving forward in Jesus.
It bothers me that so many people are like the church that got comfortable in where they were in Revelation – Laodiceans (Revelation 3:14-22) This church was neither cold or hot – they were lukewarm…comfortable. They were not on fire for the Lord nor were they against the Lord. I always took that to be those of us that just sit back and say nothing. We cannot afford to be silent…the world around us is dying…dying and souls are being lost forever – we have to be on fire for Jesus and speak so that we have less people believing the #10 listed in the beginning of this writing…all things are possible in Jesus – including abstinence from sex! AMEN!
Have a blessed and awesome day in the Lord!
Love your sister in Christ,
Sister Alissa Lynne
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2 comments:
This post really encouraged me. I also find it extremely frustrating that sex is so prevalent in our society -- and even other Christians have decided that saving sex for marriage isn't actually a biblical commandment. I even blogged about it recently, it's been on my mind a lot lately. Let us pray for this nation!
I am like you in that I find it difficult to witness like your husband does, I cannot just go up to someone and ask "Do you know Jesus?" I too like to prod and feel my way around a bit, and I am never as bold as some, I'm usually very cautious in my approach so as not to drive people away. Sometimes I wonder which method is most effective, but most of the time I think that people are so different from one another, that one person responds well to the bold approach and others are completely turned off by it, and other people appreciate more subtle approaches. So I think we should just witness according to how God made our spirits -- this is of course not to say that we should shy away from witnessing and not be bold when the time calls for it, but to just listen to God in these times and pray that He'll use us in the most effective ways as the situation calls for it. Thanks again for posting on this, I loved reading it!
Hey Sarah...one thing I have noticed with my husband is that in his approach - the Holy Spirit leads because he never seems to get someone who is not listening to Him. He is truly gifted in Evangelism which not all of us have...it is a spiritual gift that is for sure! Praise God for it as if it was not for that...hummmm how would I have heard? :) God Bless and truly love your comments!
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