13-16The people brought children to Jesus, hoping he might touch them. The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus was irate (Eskor: hmm... so Jesus had emotions too right? I guess this is something we should think about) and let them know it: "Don't push these children away. Don't ever get between them and me. These children are at the very center of life in the kingdom. Mark this: Unless you accept God's kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you'll never get in." Then, gathering the children up in his arms, he laid his hands of blessing on them.
God's word and the things of God is indeed very simple but because our complex minds can't believe how simple God's word is, We end up making it more complex than it really is. That is why we need the constant help of the Holy Spirit at all times when studying God's word, a constant renewing of our minds (to purge old mindsets, old mentalities, old ways of thinking and traditional/cultural beliefs that do not line up with God's word -Hebrews 12 and Romans 12) and most importantly, a Child-like heart of FAITH. Do you remember how easily it was to be quick to believe when we were still very young? Though some of the myths and stories our parents told us when we were kids were not true, we still believed them.
Examples of such stories we believed are: for most ladies, your sex education as a child was that 'If you as much as touch a man or you allow a man touch you will become pregnant
'. This is really painful but true and only ended up creating fear in ladies when they were kids. Since men are not the ones that become pregnant, most of us men were not even given any for of sex education. I don’t blame our parents though because I realized that topics like this were hard for them to discuss about (especially because of our STRONG traditional/cultural beliefs and the fact that they too didn’t get any form of sex education. It is even harder for the generation before us to tell their kids that they loved them and this is really painful since kids need to be assured about their parents Love to enable them to be secure in themselves). I hope now that we are more informed (though some of us still found out the truth the HARD WAY. Reminds me of this movie: The HARD WAY- THE ONLY WAY) especially in this INFORMATION AGE we wouldn't do the same thing to our kids cos if we are afraid to tell them the truth, they will learn from the world's system and the world's view of sex as we know is already perverted. As opposed to what the enemy wants us to believe and the constant mind programming we see from movies/pornographic materials and even religion, SEX is not a shameful thing or as downgraded, dirty and perverted as the enemy is trying to make it look. It was (and still is) part of God's design to build INTIMACY between a man and a woman in marriage; it is a BLOOD covenant (similar to the blood covenants we see in the old testaments) which is meant to be BINDING between the couple after tying the knot(I Guess this is why the HONEYMOON after the wedding was designed
), it is wonderful both in God's eyes(and meant to be wonderful in our eyes too since it is the greatest form of intimacy between a Husband and a Wife) and can be ONLY truly enjoyed within the walls of MARRIAGE. BUT if we already had a perverted view or wrong mindset of sex before we got married, it will definitely affect us even after we are married. and The same principle stands true to everything else in life (GOOD THINKING, GOOD PRODUCT. BUT WRONG THINKING, WRONG PRODUCT. This is Toyota's motto right? Just modified it to make a point). Like john Maxwell always states in most of his books "YOUR ATTITUDE DETERMINES YOUR ALTITUDE"Today, a lot of US men are still burning with with an uncontrolled LUST for sex or things that have no lasting value (temporal pleasures that never satisfies) because of the FILTH (Pornography, filthy music that promotes degraded sex and quickies as opposed to building INTIMACY, billboards and advertisements we see on a constant basis that is ALL ABOUT SEX and filthy movies especially from Hollywood) we have exposed ourselves to from when we were kids till date (this is more spiritual than physical though and is actually a spiritual attack. I've found out that part of the enemy's strategy and target is towards kids because he believes that if he can mess us up as kids, we will remain MESSED UP and feeling so condemn and never come to the point of appreciating GOD's love for us. LIAR, LIAR BORN IN FIRE
). Women are not excluded in this picture I am trying to paint but it is more prevalent and conspicuous in MEN because unlike women men are easily moved and sexually stimulated BY SIGHT and though this is suppose to be a blessing (the power of VISION), the enemy has been able to THWART it to his advantage and we've allowed him (The devil has power over the world but he has no power over God's Children and the only power the devil has is the power we give him. Very similar to how the moon has no light of his own but reflects the light from the sun). I used the word US because I was in the same boat (even after I became born again) before I finally got to know the TRUTH and I still have to constantly RENEW MY MIND using God's word with the help of the Holy Spirit and also going through a PURGING PROCESS to allow God's word PURGE my mind from all the filth I allowed in (it is very easy to get this filth in but it takes the grace of God to get them out. Our mind is like a computer that stores everything we process with it and the enemy will always try to use these stored processes to condemn us) and also constantly GUARD MY HEART WITH ALL DILIGENCE (remember this computer terminology? GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT) and it is still a learning process. TO BE CONTINUED...
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