The Wolf

- Well as this semester begins I am again out of my natural environment and thrust back into the real world. As day by day passes by the yearning in my heart to see Jesus grows. Not to make it sound like I want to die but I just know I am not meant for this world. Our life is but a mist in the span of eternity. It kills me when I see people just living for this world because they think it's all they have. They don't realize that their is a Father that yearns to love them with an everlasting love, a love that will change your life. The main thing that has been hitting me over and over again just within the last 4 days is how drastically this world has changed in regards to sexual purity. I purposely haven't watched hardly any television this past semester because of this. The last couple of days though I have watched an episode of desperate housewives and secret life of the american teenager. Gone are days of wholesome tv shows, not that I didn't know that promiscuity was going to be in the shows. I can honestly say that now, as I used to be desensitized, television and movies bug me. They portray a world that is so screwed up but socially excepted. Secret Life of the American Teenager, along with every other show, has continued to grow worse. Now every character, whether gay, straight, christian or non-believer, is having sex, and lots of it. Not only is this on the tv screen but it has also jumped off the screen into my college environment. Any worldly pleasure that is out there is being indulged in on this campus and it makes me nauseous. I feel like sexual purity is rarely found anymore, and its definitely not treasured by most people. What most of all just irritates me to my core is when there are people that I know are believers yet they flaunt around there sin like its no big deal. Not that I don't screw up sometimes but we are called to be lights in this world, not part of the darkness.

" fear and flee the wolf; for, worst of all, the wolf may be more than he seems."

This quote was part of a short story that I read for my English Comp. 2 class. It stuck out to me because, to me, a wolf symbolizes the enemy. As this quote says, and as Satan is, the wolf may be more than he seems. Think about the character of Satan he is a liar, The Father of lies, and a deceiver. The sin that he tempts you with seems like just an experience that you must have in life when once you indulge in it it can become you. Not only does sin pull you way from God but it tears your life apart piece by piece.

So in conclusion- we, as believers, are called to be of this world, not in it. The temptation isn't bad, its giving into the temptation. But God can redeem anyone. I heard this in a sermon recently- that the people, or situations, that seem the most unreachable could be the people that God has such amazing plans for than we could ever imagine. No one is unreachable but the enemy will tell you that they are.

Continuing to Live for the King of Kings!

Zephaniah 3:17

Love, Abigail