A friend of mine asked me to do a little project for her kid who’s communion is coming. I am rather happy with how it’s coming. There’s still something more to come to it.
But I still need to figure how to do the little plus…
Have you ever had the urge to sin ? Like really bad ? But somehow God prevents it by making you feel utter disgust to the point of feeling sick picturing yourself in the act ? (it’s not the one sin you think of, but it could be about that one too…).
It’s been a week I’ve had old enemies knocking at my door and I’ve been feeling consistently weak facing them… I’ve prayed my a… off … And God answered in this way. I feel the urge and the desire to sin and yet somehow my spirit won’t have it.
I have a question about Music.
I have listened to music ever since I can remember. In particular Heavy Metal has made a huge impact on me when I was a teenager. Not necessarily the imagery nor the rebellious attitude of some bands but just the energy behind the music.
I never really idolised it to the point of just making my entire personality revolve around it.
But if I have to be fully honest whenever I feel down and drained, putting some old school metal in my headset does the trick, like Pantera, Metallica, 5FDP.
But precisely what bothers me sometimes especially with bands like 5FDP is the imagery they fly on …
I know music is a portal to the soul, just like our eyes if we open them on lustful content.
All this being said, precisely heavy metal is part of the things that help me keep lust at the door, it’s one of the things where it helps me regain my composure and just not give-in to weakness.
But it feels like I am trying to control things on my own when doing that, and not rely on our saviour Jesus Christ.
It’s not that I feel sinful when I listen to heavy metal, I just enjoy it because it puts me in a good
mood, and helps me fight darker thoughts.
Is this setting me up for later failure ? Do you think that as Christians we ought to avoid certain types of music and rather search God in silence ?
It is really interesting to me how obvious it is that this world is corrupt, not in the political sense, but in the most simple definition of the world corruption.
Something is corrupted when it is not in a pristine state anymore, it has already decayed from its original perfect state.
Physics itself points to this through the second law of thermodynamics. It is present everywhere.
Since this world is subject to decay so are we, body and soul … But part of us can be saved, if our soul searches relentlessly, orients itself towards the perfect source that has given us existence, it preserves itself from being affected by this world.
The way I experienced this personally is every time I turn to Christ when this world is trying to affect my soul… I feel the world has no influence on me.
I see also how this world affects the soul of people around me who are not grounded in Christ and how their souls jn turn decay as well, become more agressive, anxious, perverted in so many different ways. It makes me sad to see this, beyond any measure, because I am helpless, I can’t do anything for them but try to show them how He changed me…
Our bodies will inevitably decay, our flesh belongs to this world, our soul belongs to Him.
What do you think about this perspective ?
I am currently having a thought on one of the question that Atheists often have related to our faith.
Why would God create us knowing how much suffering we would go through. If he knew, why did he do it ?
I was thinking about this more general question about life: Is it better to have known love and being disappointed than never have known love at all.
I’m thinking of all the people that never really experienced love in their life, and I can’t imagine that the answer to this question is to never have known love.
God created us because he loved us deeply, we disappointed Him (and still do) but that doesn’t change His never-ending love for us. And he asks us one question do we want to know love, or do we prefer not ? We only need to give Him our love, and not fear disappointment, because he is faithful to us, we just need to trust Him…
What do you think?
I did sports all my life, it is something that is very difficult for me to let go. That in itself I think might be an issue but my question is more specific.
I’ve been doing kickboxing for a while now and I really love it. It’s not the violence in itself, but the encounter and the confrontation that enjoy.
But also the fact that when we train, we’re just all “brothers”, who we are and where we come from doesn’t matter, it all disappears at the door of the gym.
My concern is about two things, the fact that this sport doesn’t glorify God, even if I’m not attracted to the violence itself… It is nevertheless a violent sport. Hoe does that glorify God’s name ? Shouldn’t I spend this time doing something to glorify His name ? All the time went in training for what … To strengthen my flesh …
On the other hand, the confrontation humbles me, especially when we spar, I just am another guy in there, I take hits, I get out bruised and hurting, sometimes my pride in particular takes a severe hit because I was bested by someone else … But that precisely makes me feel good, it forces me to abandon my pride and remind myself that this body ultimately is not eternal and that it will eventually die.
So I’m a bit conflicted … Should I continue or stop ? Any ideas / Tips / Scripture that can help here ?