The lose of purity in a Christians life

It's a gradual process, happens to all of us.

We can try, but we can hardly avoid it. Even Disney movies, when you are little they seem fine, you get older, and realize how much went over your head. But it was still being fed subliminally to us when little, sure maybe the outright innuendo's, but I'm talking about other messages. Messages that happen in every princess story, the girl constantly daydreaming about her princes, the kiss, the kiss that doesn't need to wait for marriage, the kiss that seals the happy ending, before life has even begun.The physical lust that is granted and makes it all alright. Radio songs blast the theme all the time "If it feels good, it must be right". Commercials encourage us to buy products that will make us seductive, showing images of seductive people to prove the point. Clothing stores display images of scantily clad woman and buffed up men with pants riding low. News stories are full of "who did who" from sport players, to politicians, to the stereo-typical Hollywood drama. Pick up a seemingly innocent magazine and accidentally read the wrong ad, you discover something you didn't know before, something now burned into your memory, a piece of information you didn't need to know, and now can never forget. Glance at a newspaper, take a walk on the beach, speed down the highway and glance at a billboard, go to the movies, turn on the radio. Unless you can live your life with your eyes and ears closed, you can't avoid being inundated with the messages of lust fulfilled =
happiness gained. You walk through life losing purity from unintentional exposure.

Back to my point on the Disney movies, adding to it any "Christian" love story.Such a little thing you say, such a little thing. It's just a kiss. If there's one thing I've learned thus far it's that sin begets sin. No, I'm not walking a slippery slope, I'm stating what should be a well known fact to all Christians. What desire is it that a kiss satisfies? What is it that we enjoy about the kiss, what is it that it satisfies that makes us think it should be okay to engage in before marriage? What does a kiss start you thinking about?

It's not just the world that expects it,forces it upon us, the tainting of the world's beauty, the questioning of an absolute. It's fellow "Christians" that believe we are "sheltered" and need to be "informed" so that we can better "witness" to people in this world. We are told that if we don't know about the sin that goes on in this world, we won't know how to help someone who comes to us struggling with a particular sin problem. We are told that there is such a thing as "Being so heavenly minded they were of no earthly good". Seemingly we are encouraged to laugh at crass jokes or innuendo's.Do we ever stand up and tell people that they need to stop having silly relationships that callus their hearts and pull their minds from Christ? Sometimes we do it to each other without realizing it, asking little 3 yr. old "Tommy" if cute "Christina" from daycare is his girlfriend.

Fellow Sisters and Brothers, why do we do this to each other? Girls why do we dress to please the men? Guys why do you chase after us with no intention of catching us when we fall? Fathers it's awkward, but teach your daughters how to dress, and your sons how to act. Love your daughters so they don't seek after the approval of another pre-maturely. Mothers can you not set an example for us? Help our fathers with our dressing, teach us how to protect our hearts.

We cannot do this on our own, protecting our purity requires the effort of the whole church, shielding each other, watching our lips. Encouraging one another to think upon wholesome things. We should be helping each other swim AGAINST the current, not with it.

Answer to a Kuyper college essay question

“Describe your personal beliefs, experiences, and influences that have contributed to your spiritual growth.”

"I believe in the triune God manifested in the three persons of Father (as our Creator), Son (as our Redeemer), and Holy Spirit (as our sanctifier). I believe that Christ died on the cross to save His elect people; that there are some people that are made as vessels for destruction; that man is responsible for his rejection of the grace of salvation; and that God does not tempt man but each man is dragged away and enticed by his own evil desires. I believe that the purpose of every Christian's life is to give glory to God in whatever we do, that God has dominion over every area of life, and that thinking holistically as a Christian is vital and logical. I know that when Christ returns He shall gather to Himself all the saints, both living and dead, to be with Himself in eternity. In the area of eschatology I am still doing research but I am leaning in a postmillennialist direction. I believe that scripture is the inspired Word of God and should be accepted as a whole. I do not believe that the old covenant as a whole became invalid when Christ established the new covenant, rather that the new and old covenant work together in harmony."

(Libby this was posted for your sake...even though I didn't just write it...so I could say I got a post up)

Your Truth is my desire
Your love to fuel my fire
Without You I don't want to live
Help me my whole life to give

Unworthy is all I could ever be
Yet You give Your grace to me
Here I stand before Your throne
Because of Christ, called Your own

Help me to praise You great "I AM"
And honor Your son the crucified Lamb
For this purpose You saved from sin
And cleansed me of the filth within

Now to others make Your name known
and bless the seeds that have been sown
Father God, righteous King
Of Your greatness let all earth sing.

Are you a Christian?

Do you believe abortion is wrong?

Not only that, but that it's murder?

Do you believe that homosexuality is un-biblical?

Do believe that according to the constitution a man has a right to keep and bear arms, without having to inform the Gov. of your possession?

Do you believe that a man has a right to own his own land?

Do you believe that judges should judge according to the word of God?

Do you say the pledge?

My dear friends, did you answer yes to any of those questions? How about any but the last one?

I pledge allegiance to the flag

"Thou Shalt Not Murder" (Exodus 20:13, Deut., 5:22 Matt. 5:21)
"(a) For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician. Pp. 163, 164.(http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/gov/bl_roe_a.htm)

Of the united states of America

"Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery" (Exodus 20:14, Lev. 18:22 Romans 1:27)
"Mass. General Laws c.207. The same laws and procedures that govern traditional marriage also apply to same-sex marriages. There are no special procedures for a same-sex marriage." (http://www.lawlib.state.ma.us/gaymarriage.html)

And to the *republic* for which it stands

"the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." (2nd Amendment of the constitution)

One Nation

"The Heritage Index greatly exaggerates the security of property rights in the U.S. The ever-expanding asset seizure laws have made American property rights among the least secure." (http://www.vdare.com/roberts/tax.htm)

Under God

"The Supreme Court went against legal precedent of the past 200 years...and banned the Ten Commandments when it appeared to be presented as a religious doctrine." "Last week, the justices rejected an appeal from a high-profile crusader for Ten Commandment monuments, ousted Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who lost his job after defying a federal order to dismantle a Ten Commandments monument."(http://10commandments.biz/biz/newsletter/2005/june/supreme_court_ten_commandments.php) (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6232020) (

Indivisible, with liberty and justice

"Thus, when a flat rate Federal income tax was enacted in 1894, it was quickly challenged and in 1895 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional because it was a direct tax not apportioned according to the population of each state." (http://www.treasury.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml http://www.teapartyday.com/)

For All.

"Abortion is a safe and legal way for women to choose to end pregnancy."
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/abortion-4260.htm



Do you not see? If you answered 'YES' to any of my questions, why do you still say the pledge? Why do you give your allegiance to a nation that murders babies, promotes adultery, and goes against it's own laws and original documents. Fellow Christians, I mourn for you. Why is it that we believe we are doing the greatest good by saying the pledge; when it is so obvious that everything our country does now is exactly the opposite, and getting worse? We are not truly loving our country, as it was intended to be, and most importantly, we are not truly loving nor honoring our God when we pledge our allegiance to our flag. You want to be a witness? You want a chance to explain to people about the Christian life? Don't say the pledge, people will ask you why, (I can guarantee it) and you can tell them it's because you love your God, and you are a true patriot. Will it be easy? Assuredly not, of that I have knowledge. Is that course of action right? Certainly I believe so, and would desire proof otherwise, besides sagas of sentimentalization.

"Surely I have taught you statues and judgments, just as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should act according to them in the land which you go to possess. Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people"

Deuteronomy 4:5-6

Duties before rights.

Everyone wants to concentrates on the rights that they think they deserve, without thinking about fulfilling the duties that they are bound to preform.

For example, our "inalienable" rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Why do we deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? We don't, not really. We are creatures of the fall, doomed to death from the day Adam bit the apple. The only reason we can hope for, or expect any of the above mentioned three things, is because God sent His son to be an propitiation for our sins. But still, unless we live by God's law set forth for us in scripture, we cannot expect these "rights". It is our *duty* to glorify God and follow His law, before we can expect any "rights" from Him. If you think about it, any country that has turned away from God's law, and stopped preforming their duties towards Him, has had these "rights" taken away from them. Think of Communist run Governments, think of the French revolution, where
"Every last king should be strangled with the entrails of the last priest" Those people lived in fear of being reported or turned in, they could not leave there own country freely, you didn't want to try and rise above the common man, for fear of being killed. When we turn from our duties to God, we automatically give up any "rights" that we think belong to us.

So, in reality, every man has inalienable duties, and if those are preformed, he can expect some "rights" because of that. It is a reward from God to His people, it is God keeping His covenantal promises to us. If we Obey, serve, and glorify Him, He will bless us.

A New Years Inquisitory

Have you wished the year goodbye?
A kiss, a wave, a smile, a sigh.

Have you bid the year farewell
with a song so sweetly, sadly, sung?

Did you welcome the New year in,
Surrounded by many, numerous friends?

Or did you softly let it go
In peaceful solitude?

Did you , with gladness, welcome in
the New year, as if a long lost friend?

Or, shying back, watch warily go
the old year leave, the new a foe.

Perhaps, perhaps, it matters not
in time to come, as in ages past
What has been, will be forgot.

The Fragile Rose, the Gallant Strong.

The rose that on the gallant leaning
did swiftly learn of her mistake;
when from his sleeves, black knives producing,
his gift to her, a short lived fate.

Shadows, Monsters of the Night.

Running from the monster;
that 'till now she fully trusted.
In her being, she does know
that if it once again shape-shifted
wholly she would falsely trust it.

Sharp claws grasp at her,
teeth glistening with greed
from her mouth deep breaths are gasping
from her heart, her soul doth bleed.

Have you noticed, stars so bright
sometimes barely shine a light?
Only shadows emphasizing
they but deeper darken the long night.

Shadows grasp, shadows claw
to a shadow, there is no law
free to terrorize, free to roam
and prey upon those safe at home.

Men at home think " here, no treachery shall reach"
but they know not their own wide breach
within deep recesses of their minds the shadows lurk
waiting with malicious joy, evil plans to work.