I do want to point out, friends, that time is of the essence. There is no time to waste, so don’t complicate your lives unnecessarily. Keep it simple—in marriage, grief, joy, whatever. Even in ordinary things—your daily routines of shopping, and so on. Deal as sparingly as possible with the things the world thrusts on you. This world as you see it is fading away. (1 Corinthians 7:29-31 MSG) We spend a great deal of time and money complicating our lives. We enter into agreements that leave us over-extended and stressed out. We take on the worries of others when there is nothing we can do about them. We open doors that should have remained shut. In other words, we allow complications that should have been guarded against. This world will always thrust things on us that are more than we want to handle or more than we should try to handle. We need to exercise God's wisdom in not taking on the things this world sends our way that might have been best for us to just leave alone. When we ...
You know the old saying, “First you eat to live, and then you live to eat”? Well, it may be true that the body is only a temporary thing, but that’s no excuse for stuffing your body with food, or indulging it with sex. Since the Master honors you with a body, honor him with your body! (I Corinthians 6:13 MSG) Honor him with your body. Uhm...how's that going? Your body, my body, all our bodies - created in his image, with the special purpose of actually connecting with him in a meaningful relationship. The sooner we understand that we weren't created to fulfill all our whims and fancies, the more we will begin to allow the change of our 'desires' and 'wants' to match up to what he has designed for us. While our earthly bodies are a 'temporary temple' for his presence, it doesn't mean we can ignore them or treat them in a 'disrespectful' manner. True as that may be, it is sometimes quite hard for us to resist that chocolate cake or bowl of mun...