{"id":56,"date":"2010-04-13T22:12:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T04:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michel2010.name\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2010-04-13T22:12:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T04:12:30","slug":"obedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/2010\/04\/13\/obedience\/","title":{"rendered":"Obedience"},"content":{"rendered":"

This evening I’ve been reading the book The Hole in Our Gospel<\/a><\/span> by Richard Stearns. \u00a0I’ve very much been convicted that I need to be doing more for the poor. \u00a0So I went to the World Vision<\/a> website and I am now\u00a0sponsoring\u00a0a child. \u00a0Here is my question (which I will throw out into the great abyss of the Internet not really expecting a response): What are my\u00a0motives? \u00a0Am I doing this out of my love for Christ or simply guilt? \u00a0God looks at my heart. \u00a0Christ says if I love Him I will obey his commands. \u00a0He commands me to take care of the poor. \u00a0Is it because of my love for Christ that I feel guilty? \u00a0How do I love this child (his name is Samuel and he lives in Kenya) who is so far away?<\/p>\n

I almost didn’t do the\u00a0sponsorship, but my only reason for not doing it was “I can’t afford it.” \u00a0Since this is obviously a lie I went ahead and did it any ways. \u00a0How do I know when to stop? \u00a0I’ve always been scared if I started doing things like this I would start caring, really caring, and would end up giving all my money away. \u00a0Why does that scare me? \u00a0How stupid is that? \u00a0Yet it is there, even now. \u00a0 I have a really twisted heart.<\/p>\n

Proverbs 6:20-22 My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.<\/em><\/p>\n

6:32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is why porn is so bad. This is why it scares me so much. Christ said if you look at a women lustfully you have committed adultery with her in your heart. Adultery destroys souls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This evening I’ve been reading the book The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns. \u00a0I’ve very much been convicted that I need to be doing more for the poor. \u00a0So I went to the World Vision website and I am now\u00a0sponsoring\u00a0a child. \u00a0Here is my question (which I will throw out into the great … Continue reading “Obedience”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}