Saturday, April 12, 2008

Saturday- Proverbs 13

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Jeremy Adams said...

13:21 Trouble chases sinners, while blessings chase the righteous!

There was a part of the video that we watched today that stuck out to me; the part where the guy who was a porn producer said that he looked at it like the more wrong he did it seemed like the Lord just blessed him even more! I think that happens a lot today. When we're subjecting ourselves to the most sin, we can sometimes find what we assume to be "blessings" coming from it.

I find myself to be very fortunate to never have been lured into the porn world, but I feel the sexual immoral life I was trapped in to be just as dangerous! In fact some might just toss the two into the same trapping catagory! You see the only reason I may have not felt lured into pornography was simply because I would crave the "real thing" as opposed to simply watching it, or seeing it. I've never been a strip club guy or Playboy guy either but I don't consider the traps I was suffocating(sp?) under to be any less dangerous.

And wouldn't you know that I probably appeared to be the most "blessed" (to the outside world anyways) while I was in the prime of my sexual immoral life! I think that's one of the most dangerous parts of sexual immorality. It can portray this fun, even wealthy at times, adventurous, wild and crazy, life sure is "good" picture for others and even ourselves sometimes. That picture is kind of a trap within a trap. It's only after you surrender these feelings and desires to the Lord and lean on your brothers and sisters in Christ that you realize that these things that could have been blessings, and certainly appeared to be, were actually part of that "trouble giving chase!"

And the same could be said of the second part of that verse; I don't know how many times in my life things I thought at the time were horrible awful things to be going through, just a little bit later on were to be revealed as blessings in disguise!

I think the second part of verse 25 hits on that never satisfied feeling of being trapped in our sinful nature.

13:25b but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

It will NEVER be full! It will NEVER have reached it's limit and just like Keith said this morning it will NEVER stop!

Thank you Jesus for leading me to a place where not only have you used them to break Jeremy down and reveal the "so much more" you had for me all along, but also for accepting me while you were pulling me out of my sinful traps to place me along side of them glorifying you through our stories to reach out in love for YOURS!


ETERNALLY thankful,
Jeremy

April 13, 2008 at 2:54 PM

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