Voice of the Introverts

Love and Marriage

I’ve noticed a trend when it comes to Americans and what they are looking for when it comes to love.  I blame Hollywood for this phenomenon.  Most people think love is a feeling.  Their philosophy on love is written by Disney.  “I’ve fallen in love” is possibly the stupidest statement ever said.  Love isn’t like tripping over a rock.  Love is an action.  It’s a choice.  We’ve substituted sex and physical attraction for love.  We equate attraction with love.  True love is so much more!  Romeo and Juliet were immature children, yet we hold them up as a prime example of love.  Romeo and Juliet should be a cautionary tale, not a life goal.   

Politics is a fun topic no one else is discussing. It’s a great way to bring folks together. Good times to be had by all. There is nothing that builds unity more than a good presidential debate among family members and friends.

The biggest problem I have with today’s society is threefold: me, myself, and I. I am and have been wrapped up with trying to live a “normal” life that I constantly forget who I am – who my Father is. I am the son of a king trying to live in a kingdom that I do not belong to. I am a stranger here, a pilgrim. I am wandering thru and my purpose on this earth is to tell others about the king and what a glorious kingdom there will someday be. We are to be an example, as representatives of the Father, to point others to the path of the King.

How do we cope living in a corrupt society? It is hard to look around and see all of the things going on around us and have no control over sometimes even how we react. Take a minute. Breathe. We already have discussed how God already knew this was going to happen. It is the last days people, it is going to happen. 

We are living in a corrupt society. Good grief, pretty much a whole newscast these days is depressing if that is all you have to go on.  Do you know what? God knew about it from the very beginning and even had Paul, through the Holy Spirit, write about it in one of his letters to Timothy.

I have always had trouble explaining to others, and even to myself, why and/or how I can have peace with everything going on in the world. Today, the Spirit spoke to me through the Word! I have read it many times, but it never hit me before…

 I will let the Holy Spirit through Paul to Timothy in Timothy 2:1 lead off this second discussion on loving your neighbor.  Paul states:

   “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;”  (emphasis is mine).

  So, in talking to myself (or the Holy Spirit that is in me) first of all, let me get this straight:

   Oh my word! Who suggested this can of worms for our first subject of things to write about? If it was not my daughter that had done it she might have to move to the top of my enemies list!