One time there was a young
man who decided he didn’t want to be married anymore. Someone asked him if he knew where he came
from and why he was here? He had no answer.
There are so many who have no idea of the meaning and purpose of
life. Each one does as he knows best and
it isn’t the way that God would have them to live. Here is a thirty minute talk by Tim Keller on
a reason for living: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts7F6dqrC-s
Christianity has the
answers for the meaning and purpose of life but many people are not able to
understand the truth because they are in bondage to sin. Ravi Zacharias likens the bondage that the
Israelites were in in Egypt to the sin that traps us until we accept the free
gift of salvation that God wants to give us.
There is so much evil in the world –people have called good bad and bad
good so much that people are confused and have given in to evil. Here is a five minute You Tube of Andy Lewis,
Mitchell Road Presbyterian Church pastor in Greenville, SC. He talks about the tragedy in Aurora,
Colorado. Now we have had another
tragedy in Washington D.C.-- his thoughts would apply to this also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gGmgUfRSjI
If we can admit our sin and
turn our lives over to Jesus then God will bring us out of bondage. After God brought the Israelites out of
bondage He gave them the moral law—the Ten Commandments. These same Commandments are given to us to
show us that we cannot follow the law perfectly. We need a Savior to pay the price of death that
God must require because He is holy and just.
But He himself paid that price by
coming to earth to die for us so that we may have eternal life with Him.
Now there are many people
attending church who have head knowledge of Jesus but not heart knowledge. Instead
of studying the Bible and seeking God to know Him, seeking Him to help them,
and seeking Him to forgive them, they live according to the lies of Hollywood
and television. It has been preached for
years through this media that it is up to each one to decide when they will
have sex. Not so—God in his word said in
I Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the
kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
Most
Christians will admit that if we worship anyone other than God, if we commit
adultery, if we become involved in homosexuality, if we steal, if we lust after
things that do not belong to us, if we are drunks, use foul language, or cheat
others we are not living according to how God wants us to live. But the word “fornicator” is in there
also. Many single Christians deceive
themselves and live and or sleep together before marriage. Abstinence education is laughed at because
they say people will have sex anyway so we might as well give out free condoms. This is saying that humans have no self
control—that we are not made in God’s image, but that we are just animals. Churches
and parents either have not been convinced that purity until marriage is God’s
way, or have not been teaching purity before marriage. Somehow our society is confused and not
convinced that God expects purity.
In fact those who remain a virgin, like athletes Tim Tebow and LoLo
Jones, are put down, and given a bad time for their convictions.
My
prayer is that Christians will study the Bible, and seek God to know Him Who is
the truth, and be filled with the Holy Spirit so that we may live lives that will point the lost to Jesus! And that God will bring the lost out of the bondage to sin, and that they will live life with meaning and purpose!
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