Wednesday, April 30, 2014
vegetables overload
So I was reading this post from desiring God about the battle against pornography: http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/jesus-is-better-than-porn
A couple of thoughts:
And there are many "things" or "methods" a guy can do in order to fight over this struggle: having accountability partners, software that can block the sketchy sites, have someone lock your computer, etc... These are good methods to help for sure. But really the key is to focus on God, on His goodness and how He fills us with love and satisfaction. And that by the exceeding abundance of His grace displayed on the gospel, we should be overwhelmed.
And in general it is easy to point out that sins we commit are bad, and we are encouraged to flee from these temptations, but we should also encourage each other to run towards what is good and awesome. Running towards God, and understanding that His love is enough, that never fails, and that we based our identity as a child of His.
And there are some of us that struggle with just reading the Word consistently, and so we set up daily devotional time, a reading plan, or memorizing verse challenge, etc. Once again, I think these are great things to do (I am not trying to discredit them), but the key is to really understand and be convicted that we need God and His goodness. And sometimes, we might need some of these "methods" to get us started to run after God, but ultimately it is not these "methods" that will sustain our fervor for God, but it is the conviction that His love is all we need.
Similar with eating vegetables, some people don't like it, and sometimes it is forced upon them to eat because it is good, or blend the vegetables into the meat dish somehow. But it is really when someone understands the exquisite firmness of a well cooked "gai lan", then the love for vegetables will grow.
So our fridge is in chaos, and it has a unprecedented high amount of vegetables (and some of them are huge) haha
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