Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2018 3:29:37 GMT -7
Personally.
I feel like I need to grow in my relationship with Jesus more. It is so easy to get lazy and be blessed where I am forgetting God and trying to do life that way I see fit. I have struggles with lust, anger, and fear. I believe that Jesus will help me. I make time to listen to the Holy Bible and read it. The more I fill up on the Bible the less sin I do. It changes my attitude and outlook. There is always something I need to know for that day and reading the Bible helps me. I have a few good audio books I like too. I am free from sexual immorality now for almost 1 year and 10 months. I am not yet free from anger. I still have fear of flying. I do not to admit it. I am not free from anger. I wish there was an Anger Anonymous where we work on our anger. To me the answer is found in the Bible, in a relationship with Jesus. I made a promise to God to now follow my natural desire to get angry. I sin still in this sense. I believe the discipleship that Jesus talks about is the recovery program I need. In the Christian faith, I find the highest moral standard that reveals the state of my heart and I submit to that. There is accountability, prayer, fellowship. Real Christian love in the brotherhood. I know it more and more. This is what I need. This is what I believe in. I am looking for others men who struggle with sexual purity who want to know the God, the Lord Jesus Christ and disciple and be disciple by them. My older brothers in Christ are there for me. When I open up to share my struggles I see that some are like me, where they to have fallen into sexual sin sometime in their past and know what I'm talking about. I know how deceptive I am and how I want to break out of it. I want to be free from all sin in my life. Not just sexual sins. I hope to meet other Christian brothers who are bold to share their testimony with others.
Sadly, not all brothers are comfortable sharing their struggles. Perhaps, they do not want to open up about it. I can't demand they they do. I often times tried to cover up my own sins, and just say, ‘Yeah, I’m fine but now I wish to be in a deeper fellowship that just that. Sadly, when others do not talk about themselves in admitting their failures or try to encourage me, I often am tempted to think of them as badly. I know should not do this. I am not trying to hear the gross sin of other brothers. I do want to have fellowship in spiritual things rather than light worldly things like movies, sports, games. Honestly, It makes me feel bad to hear other brothers talk about the latest movies, or sports, because I feel like this is coming from the heart, so I guess they must have sports in their heart or have this hobby or that. That is light fellowship I guess. Perhaps, we do not want to get too deep or know each other then. I try to ask them questions but I don't get far. So I share from my own trials and struggles…..like saying that I know I'm have lust temptations but I can't understand why some Christian sisters come to church wearing practically nothing. Super high shorts, revealing too much of their body. It's a shame and a stumbling block. I know Jesus says, “If you look at a woman lustfully in your heart then that is the same as committing adultery" but again the scripture also says “Woe to you through whom the offense comes through" and “it would be better for you to the a millstone around your neck and be thrown of a cliff than to cause any one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble" it goes both ways. I can't look and they (Careless Christian Sisters) should not stumble. I wish some of the elder ladies would teach that to the younger Christian ladies. I guess it's the same for guys who are muscular to be wearing some tight shirt tempting Christian sisters into lusting. We should not do it to each other period. If we care for each other. Paul said that if eating Meat would stumble his brother, who Christ died for, then Paul, for the brothers sake, would not eat meat. It was out of love for the others. This is the kind of love we should practice. The wearing of the clothes is just one example that I am speaking about.
I feel like I need to grow in my relationship with Jesus more. It is so easy to get lazy and be blessed where I am forgetting God and trying to do life that way I see fit. I have struggles with lust, anger, and fear. I believe that Jesus will help me. I make time to listen to the Holy Bible and read it. The more I fill up on the Bible the less sin I do. It changes my attitude and outlook. There is always something I need to know for that day and reading the Bible helps me. I have a few good audio books I like too. I am free from sexual immorality now for almost 1 year and 10 months. I am not yet free from anger. I still have fear of flying. I do not to admit it. I am not free from anger. I wish there was an Anger Anonymous where we work on our anger. To me the answer is found in the Bible, in a relationship with Jesus. I made a promise to God to now follow my natural desire to get angry. I sin still in this sense. I believe the discipleship that Jesus talks about is the recovery program I need. In the Christian faith, I find the highest moral standard that reveals the state of my heart and I submit to that. There is accountability, prayer, fellowship. Real Christian love in the brotherhood. I know it more and more. This is what I need. This is what I believe in. I am looking for others men who struggle with sexual purity who want to know the God, the Lord Jesus Christ and disciple and be disciple by them. My older brothers in Christ are there for me. When I open up to share my struggles I see that some are like me, where they to have fallen into sexual sin sometime in their past and know what I'm talking about. I know how deceptive I am and how I want to break out of it. I want to be free from all sin in my life. Not just sexual sins. I hope to meet other Christian brothers who are bold to share their testimony with others.
Sadly, not all brothers are comfortable sharing their struggles. Perhaps, they do not want to open up about it. I can't demand they they do. I often times tried to cover up my own sins, and just say, ‘Yeah, I’m fine but now I wish to be in a deeper fellowship that just that. Sadly, when others do not talk about themselves in admitting their failures or try to encourage me, I often am tempted to think of them as badly. I know should not do this. I am not trying to hear the gross sin of other brothers. I do want to have fellowship in spiritual things rather than light worldly things like movies, sports, games. Honestly, It makes me feel bad to hear other brothers talk about the latest movies, or sports, because I feel like this is coming from the heart, so I guess they must have sports in their heart or have this hobby or that. That is light fellowship I guess. Perhaps, we do not want to get too deep or know each other then. I try to ask them questions but I don't get far. So I share from my own trials and struggles…..like saying that I know I'm have lust temptations but I can't understand why some Christian sisters come to church wearing practically nothing. Super high shorts, revealing too much of their body. It's a shame and a stumbling block. I know Jesus says, “If you look at a woman lustfully in your heart then that is the same as committing adultery" but again the scripture also says “Woe to you through whom the offense comes through" and “it would be better for you to the a millstone around your neck and be thrown of a cliff than to cause any one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble" it goes both ways. I can't look and they (Careless Christian Sisters) should not stumble. I wish some of the elder ladies would teach that to the younger Christian ladies. I guess it's the same for guys who are muscular to be wearing some tight shirt tempting Christian sisters into lusting. We should not do it to each other period. If we care for each other. Paul said that if eating Meat would stumble his brother, who Christ died for, then Paul, for the brothers sake, would not eat meat. It was out of love for the others. This is the kind of love we should practice. The wearing of the clothes is just one example that I am speaking about.
