okay. so answer this for me.
say you have a person who has just decided they want to change their life...they want to follow christ. they want to pour their entire heart, mind, body and soul into it.
they're excited about this. they really buy into it. they really want it. they long for change.
and so they decide....tomorrow. tomorrow i will begin anew. a new person. a new life.
but there is still the fleshly part of them...the human part that we all have. and it's still hovering...tempting...still a presence. and to be honest, they don't mind it. because somewhere inside of them still likes all that old stuff. likes the way it makes them look or feel....
and so they decide to give it all one more go. tonight. because tomorrow it's no more...tomorrow they won't humor the darker side of themselves any longer....
but tonight they want to indulge one last time.
so what's wrong with that?
is there anything wrong with that? i mean, i would venture to say that we all feel it.
and if there is something wrong...how would you go about explaining that wrongness as to keep it from occuring?
i'm not sure i'm making any sense.
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Hmm interesting question. Unfortunately that dark side always exists. Is always ever present. It's so liberating to start anew. To find Christ and decide FINALLY I will pour everything I have into following Christ and sharing his love to everyone I see. But then comes the valley, your dark side, the familiar you... we are all flawed. It is His word that will get us through.
Is it wrong or right? not sure if I can say if it's right or wrong - we're human... and flawed. So we do tend to go back to the familiar... back to laziness, selfishness - the list could go on and on. Not sure if I answered your question!
I agree with jenny on many levels... not sure if I could say what’s right and what’s wrong. I do know we don’t have to make an outward physical change to buy into Christ and follow him... we are human. Some people have the discipline to do that and do it. And struggle comes so easily to us humans... It’s so easy to get sucked back into our everyday life styles and desires. If they want to jump in then do it... Don’t be selfish in the moment and think "well if I just do it one last time" Just jump in and the other stuff will get handled. But if you stay attached to the desires of the world it doesn’t do anything but keep further from knowing Christ and getting deep into your relationship with him. You put walls up and that also keeps you at a distance from going deeper and immersing yourself in his love.
sorry if that didn't help.
love merl
I love this discussion. I believe Jenny and Kendall are both right. This crisis really highlights the flaws in our human nature.
This is a bit off topic, but I think it relates. Yesterday I was speaking with a co-worker about communism, and if it could ever work. On paper, communism would be a great utopia. However, because of the flawed human nature I don't believe it would ever work. Somehow humans would always create a way for power and control. In a communist society this takes the form of an elitist powerful/wealthy class, that controls and deprives everyone else (just look at China/Cuba).
I don't know if it is right or wrong as you say, and my point certainly is not a license to be wrong. Ultimately my faith is in the redeeming power of God's grace. As Christian said last night, God restores us from our flaws. He doesn't simply forgive and forget, He brings us the next step :)
After reading all of these I do feel as if I am closer to an answer than I had been when I posted...
Everytime we go back to those desires...those dark things we give them a power over us that they shouldn't have. That isn't theirs.
We all do it.
But it isn't something that helps us.
It's lifting up something that doesn't deserve to be lifted up...
We don't need those things...
In fact, they hurt us.
And so when we indulge in them anyway, we're conditioning ourselves and our minds to think that we really do need them...and that they really are good for us.
Not sure if this really fits, but I can't help being reminded of the song Jesse wrote about love and there's this one line in it that says--"Someone lied to us"...
That's so true...we're lied to...and often we lie to ourselves.
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