Blahh...

Ever wake up with that, blahhh, feeling? This morning I woke up with a really dry and scratchy throat, I couldn't breath through my nose, I had a bit of a headache, I just felt like blahhh. It didn't help that the morning was kinda dreary and my wife turned the lights on as I was trying to wake up, (That's the worst you know! Trying to take your time waking up and someone turns the lights on thinking they're helping out; that just makes it ten times worse! My mom always did this to me when I didn't wake up for school, serves me right I suppose).

Its a shame that we don't feel the same way when we're living in sin; or when we do feel that way we ignore it.

These past couple Wednesday nights in youth I've been leading discussions on questions that are burning in the hearts of the teenagers. They give me their questions and we take Wednesday evenings and discuss them trying to come up with some sort of answer. Last nights question was quite fitting, "Why is the world so attractive?"

When thinking about these questions its sometimes easier to ask the same question in other ways, thus making this question look something like this, "Why is it attractive to sin?", or "Why is it a desire to sin?", or "Why is it attractive to drink, smoke, lie, gossip, curse, live in lust?". Whats so attractive about these things that we choose them over the goodness of God?

Its been fun trying to answer these questions with the teenagers. What I've found is that they know the answers, which is sort of a relief, now we can struggle together to make the answers not just answers but ways to battle the desires of our flesh. How? Psalm 119:11 and Hebrews 5:14.