- Mar 26, 2006
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God has shown me through two instances how he provides us a chance to make right our past wrongs. It has made me feel better about my walk.
One was that I went on a date with a non-christian girl even though I knew it was not pleasing to God and I could have gotten myself into a mess.I was not acting Christ like at all and I was so selfish. A few months later there was a freind that I was trying to share Christ with and be an example to. we were sitting in a church gym and out of nowhere she said "Chris do you ever check me out" and she motioned with her hands that it was more of a checking out of her body. We started swing dancing together every friday night and alot of temptation built up and it was so strong knowing my freind had a desire to date me. eventually after praying about it my freind was led out of my life and then I had the thought " I was not strong enough to continue to be her freind and so for that reason I lost the oppertunity to be a witness to her, so I must have failed her and God." Now looking back I realize that God gave me this freind as an oppertunity to be challenged to do what was right wheras before I got mixed up with a non-christian , this oppertunity with my non-christian freind was pretty much thrown at me yet through christ I put down the flesh and sought Gods help. To him be the glory alone.
the second failing was when i was leading a bible study in the fall and we got sidetracked on a doctrinal issue of which i became really passive and withheld my knowledge of the truth because of fear .My freind who was leading with me disagreed with me at the time and eventually he came into the truth on the issue yet we never really made things right with the group and came back and said this is what the bible actually says. Last night I was in another bible study and the same issue came up and one member of the group was a guy from the fall bible study who , at the time I felt obligated to share the truth with but i didnt. Last night I had that oppertunity and it was really easy because i was surrounded with a solid group of guys so all i did was really say a few words to bring clarity to what they had already said.
One was that I went on a date with a non-christian girl even though I knew it was not pleasing to God and I could have gotten myself into a mess.I was not acting Christ like at all and I was so selfish. A few months later there was a freind that I was trying to share Christ with and be an example to. we were sitting in a church gym and out of nowhere she said "Chris do you ever check me out" and she motioned with her hands that it was more of a checking out of her body. We started swing dancing together every friday night and alot of temptation built up and it was so strong knowing my freind had a desire to date me. eventually after praying about it my freind was led out of my life and then I had the thought " I was not strong enough to continue to be her freind and so for that reason I lost the oppertunity to be a witness to her, so I must have failed her and God." Now looking back I realize that God gave me this freind as an oppertunity to be challenged to do what was right wheras before I got mixed up with a non-christian , this oppertunity with my non-christian freind was pretty much thrown at me yet through christ I put down the flesh and sought Gods help. To him be the glory alone.
the second failing was when i was leading a bible study in the fall and we got sidetracked on a doctrinal issue of which i became really passive and withheld my knowledge of the truth because of fear .My freind who was leading with me disagreed with me at the time and eventually he came into the truth on the issue yet we never really made things right with the group and came back and said this is what the bible actually says. Last night I was in another bible study and the same issue came up and one member of the group was a guy from the fall bible study who , at the time I felt obligated to share the truth with but i didnt. Last night I had that oppertunity and it was really easy because i was surrounded with a solid group of guys so all i did was really say a few words to bring clarity to what they had already said.
