discouraged personally, confronted with realities I cannot pretend don't exist anymore.
discouraged by what I see as I am interacting with the youth at Hope for Life, and am confronted with the dire circumstances they face..
discouraged by the world around me... seeing a society walking down a path of destruction .. happily rebellious, dismissing and slandering all that has helped it prosper for so long..
examining who I am in all of this... I am saddened and disappointed, and the spiritual gift of discernment, as wonderful as it is... has left me seeing things very clearly, maybe too clearly...
wondering if I need to step away from all the info that is out there, so easily accessible... important too... but: as a Christian I know that I need to fix my eyes on what is eternal and not on what is temporary...
shut down my twitter account and stop reading the posts of those that are battling all those detrimental changes happening in our society..
truth is, what seems new and so modern and advanced today... the break down of morals and values informed by what God, our Creator, has given us as a "Manual" is not that new... sure, it looks different today... brought into our homes through the internet, into the minds of kids, through the media and all the "progressive" people out there, this garbage is NOT NEW...
this is what the Bible says:
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Romans 1:23-32
scary, proven true in history so many times.. I am thankful that this is equally true:
You are righteous, Lord,
and your laws are right.
The statutes you have laid down are righteous;
they are fully trustworthy.
My zeal wears me out,
for my enemies ignore your words.
Your promises have been thoroughly tested,
and your servant loves them.
Though I am lowly and despised,
I do not forget your precepts.
Your righteousness is everlasting
and your law is true.
Trouble and distress have come upon me,
but your commands give me delight.
Your statutes are always righteous;
give me understanding that I may live.
Psalm 119:137-144
so, I do not have to be discouraged... all I have to do is this:
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
holding on to truth and trusting God for each and everyone He brings my way... through Him I can do that.. one word description of where I am: Thankful!
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