It's heavy on my heart that my generation (who knows, maybe older and younger people as well) have been living a lifestyle of this thing that can be summed up with something like "how close can I get to the line before I cross it?" You know what makes me mad!? Is that I haven't been an exception!
You know what people our age are spending our time on? Questions like "how close can I get to having sex without having sex?" or "How not-hard do I have to work on this without being lazy?" or "How is smoking weed wrong? It's not as bad for you as cigarettes and I bet they're gonna legalize it soon anyways."
We need to be leading a new revolution. A revolution of people that are standing up for what is right and true and lovely and glorious! Do you know that there are places out there in the world where such things have happened? Do you know that there are communities in parts of the world where ever since the majority of people there have fallen deeply in love with God and have set down they're lifestyle of "just good enough" and replaced it with a lifestyle of "All for God's best"? This is what happens: Jails are closed down because there's no crime. Hospitals get emptied because people are healed. Families are restored and people live a lifestyle of joy and live in harmony with eachother! People this is not some fantasy! This is reality and that same revival could be happening in Snohomish, in Everett, Seattle, wherever, if we as people who know the truth would wake up.
We need to stop being okay with all this pain and crap going on around us because Jesus is gonna come back someday and all this will be gone anyways. NO! We need to be spending our lives getting ready, and trying to share as much of God's light as we can. Jesus told us to pray "Let your kingdom come, let your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." What is the kingdom? It's everything wonderful and glorious and lovely. It's where the presence of God dwells and the feeling of everything pure and good are obvious. We are called to bring heaven to earth, not just waiting for us to die and get out of this place called earth so we can go to heaven. Did you hear that? Let's read that part of The Lord's Prayer again. "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN!
I wish I had know this before. Because then maybe instead of living a life of "how little can I do around the house, or in school, to get my parents off my back" I could've been living a life of "What can I be doing to make everything around me better reflect the glory of heaven?"
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While I'm at it I'm gonna run through some things that a bunch of people my age, Christians included, are stuck on. I'm not trying to judge you by these, but it's my hope that it might convict you as much as it has convicted people in my class so that you might be inspired to strive for the lifestyle our future needs US to start.
The first thing I'm gonna list is sex. Uncomfortable yet? ;-)
People, we need to STOP asking the all famous questions among youth groups: "How far is too far?"
You older adults might not be aware of this, but people my age are trying to get as close to having sex as they can while not quite going all the way. A lot of couples, even couples who are following Jesus, without going into detail, are doing pretty much "everything but" with each other, thinking it's perfectly okay, or at least somewhat okay, as long as they don't actually have the kind of sex that can make babies.
Imagine how much heartache, emotional pain, and sexual-transmitted diseases would be saved if only we were asking "How can me and my boyfriend/girlfriend be a living example of purity through our actions, both private and public?" instead of "How far is too far?"
You know what? Even if you aren't in a relationship and don't have anybody who you'd fool around with you still might be living in sexual sin. Matthew 5:28 says "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
Can I just say right now that porn sickens me? Now if you do or have struggled with porn, it doesn't mean YOU sicken me. But the act of looking at porn sickens me. Don't you know that when you look at those naked girls that person is someone that God made and that he loves dearly? That she was made for so much more? Do you really want to support treating women like objects? Because when you look at porn, I bet you aren't thinking about that girl's heart. You're looking at certain body parts like toys build for your play. It's disrespectful. Don't you know that when you looked at that stuff it hurts your families, your wives, your girlfriends? Now lots of women feel like we need to look or act like porn stars to get your attention. (I'm not talking about me personally, but a lot of females out there.) It's wrong, it's gross, if you do it, you need to stop. If you can't, get a filter. Don't put it off. If you have time to gaze at body parts for hours, surely you have a few minutes to install something that's widely available and free.
And guys even if you don't look at porn I've been around a lot of my guyfriends and some girl in skimpy clothing will walk by and I can literally see you practically drool. It's gross. When you see a girl and she's wearing not much, look away. She's not a piece of meat, even if she chooses to dress like one.
...Just to clarify, I don't want to make it seem like I'm only targeting the guys. I'm not trying to. Girl's struggle with it too, but I believe in most cases it isn't as visual. Most girls just don't really struggle with porn. Okay, now I'm done with my stop the sex-stuff rant.
I was going to write about a lot of other stuff but I'm tired and I need a mind break before I write more. I've already written two long posts today. But I still have so much more stuff I want to say here. SO much more that I want people to read and take to heart. Because I wish I had known all this stuff earlier. So I'll write more soon, so keep checking back with me.
I love you all. <3
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