To those who'll go out #3-5
Goodness, I’m taking so long with this, many of the people I’m writing to are long gone, lol. Forgive me. So I’ll just squish the last three points in this one post.
3. Choose them right
One nice thing about going to tertiary, is meeting all these different people from all these different places. It’s an exciting thing. And the process of choosing friends from among these many strangers can also be exciting. But don’t get too excited and just choose anyone you run into. Friends can be very influential, so you have to make sure that those you choose are going in the same direction as you, so they won’t influence you out of your path. Remember what Paul said in Corinthians about how bad company corrupts good character? Keep that in mind.
4. Keep watch – don’t let your guard down
At any stage of our lives, we are never above temptation. It’s more intense when you’re ‘alone’ in a ‘new place’. You might be pressured by the fact that you’re the only one ‘living right’ among so many people who couldn’t care less about their lifestyles. Or it could just be getting to you that you can pretty much do anything without anybody seeing cause nobody really knows you around here. Whatever it is, don’t do it. Don’t get too comfortable with sin, don’t slowly let your guard down cause you feel you can trust yourself not to do something stupid. The flesh can never be trusted. Just like Jesus said to his disciples on his last night with them: “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing but the body is weak” (Matthew 26:41). Keep prayed up, keep on your guard, keep rooted in the Word; and when all else fails, run, like Joseph. Those who run are considered to be weak many-a-times, but let me tell you, they are the strong ones, strong and wise enough to know just how weak the flesh is.
Lastly: Get up again. You’ll make mistakes and blunders; you probably will fall into temptation. Don’t stay down. I love Proverbs 24:16 “for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again…” It doesn’t say the righteous doesn’t fall, nope. We do fall, we make tremendous mistakes, some with consequences that will follow us to the grave. But we don’t stay down. 1 John 3:9 testifies to this: “No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.” In an earlier chapter he had said, “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John1:8-9). So you have no excuse to stay in your sin, confess and move on, no matter how much it hurts. Of course this grace is no licence to sin. If you’re thinking you can go crazy and do as you want, then come back and confess, then go out and go crazy again, and come back and confess (till you make it to seven, like Proverbs said), good luck. In these scriptures, the Bible aint talking about someone who throws themselves out at sin, but someone who falls, without intention. I won’t start preaching now, but just read Jude 4.
It’s been good sharing my heart with you again. May God bless and keep you always.
3. Choose them right
One nice thing about going to tertiary, is meeting all these different people from all these different places. It’s an exciting thing. And the process of choosing friends from among these many strangers can also be exciting. But don’t get too excited and just choose anyone you run into. Friends can be very influential, so you have to make sure that those you choose are going in the same direction as you, so they won’t influence you out of your path. Remember what Paul said in Corinthians about how bad company corrupts good character? Keep that in mind.
4. Keep watch – don’t let your guard down
At any stage of our lives, we are never above temptation. It’s more intense when you’re ‘alone’ in a ‘new place’. You might be pressured by the fact that you’re the only one ‘living right’ among so many people who couldn’t care less about their lifestyles. Or it could just be getting to you that you can pretty much do anything without anybody seeing cause nobody really knows you around here. Whatever it is, don’t do it. Don’t get too comfortable with sin, don’t slowly let your guard down cause you feel you can trust yourself not to do something stupid. The flesh can never be trusted. Just like Jesus said to his disciples on his last night with them: “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing but the body is weak” (Matthew 26:41). Keep prayed up, keep on your guard, keep rooted in the Word; and when all else fails, run, like Joseph. Those who run are considered to be weak many-a-times, but let me tell you, they are the strong ones, strong and wise enough to know just how weak the flesh is.
Lastly: Get up again. You’ll make mistakes and blunders; you probably will fall into temptation. Don’t stay down. I love Proverbs 24:16 “for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again…” It doesn’t say the righteous doesn’t fall, nope. We do fall, we make tremendous mistakes, some with consequences that will follow us to the grave. But we don’t stay down. 1 John 3:9 testifies to this: “No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.” In an earlier chapter he had said, “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John1:8-9). So you have no excuse to stay in your sin, confess and move on, no matter how much it hurts. Of course this grace is no licence to sin. If you’re thinking you can go crazy and do as you want, then come back and confess, then go out and go crazy again, and come back and confess (till you make it to seven, like Proverbs said), good luck. In these scriptures, the Bible aint talking about someone who throws themselves out at sin, but someone who falls, without intention. I won’t start preaching now, but just read Jude 4.
It’s been good sharing my heart with you again. May God bless and keep you always.
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