How does the world see these roles? There is immense scepticism over what is morally right and established. What is morality anyway? Is not based within me, with me within it?
That's what the world is mulling over. Who says what is wrong? Or right? Isn't what I do what matters? ... Or don't only I matter?
The Bible gives a different view on these thoughts. I love love Ephesians 2 (MSG).
It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.
Yes, I've let the world, which doesn't know the first thing of living, teach me how to live- how to choose what's right and wrong.
Today I read an article, that pretty much infuriated me. And it wasn't related to "rights of marriage". It was about how wonderful it is to be married to a 'working' woman, and not one who 'sits at home'. The reasons The Man gave were on these lines...
He could have intelligent conversation with his wife;
The children would grow up 'independent' from their parents;
She would add on to the income of the house. (And some more stuff.. You probably already know!)
What are the things this world values? Money matters, Pride matters, Grandeur matters. Hearts don't, children don't, love doesn't. These are termed "wishy-washy". Yet the most wishy-washy of them all is the fact that we keep ourselves in the centre of our topsy turvy world. It wouldn't be that way if we weren't right in the middle of it all. If our perspectives came from a bigger source than 'us'. The question isn't even what is better- to stay at home or work; to stay married or 'live your dreams'. The question is what's in the centre of your life?
That's what the world is mulling over. Who says what is wrong? Or right? Isn't what I do what matters? ... Or don't only I matter?
The Bible gives a different view on these thoughts. I love love Ephesians 2 (MSG).
It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.
Yes, I've let the world, which doesn't know the first thing of living, teach me how to live- how to choose what's right and wrong.
Today I read an article, that pretty much infuriated me. And it wasn't related to "rights of marriage". It was about how wonderful it is to be married to a 'working' woman, and not one who 'sits at home'. The reasons The Man gave were on these lines...
He could have intelligent conversation with his wife;
The children would grow up 'independent' from their parents;
She would add on to the income of the house. (And some more stuff.. You probably already know!)
What are the things this world values? Money matters, Pride matters, Grandeur matters. Hearts don't, children don't, love doesn't. These are termed "wishy-washy". Yet the most wishy-washy of them all is the fact that we keep ourselves in the centre of our topsy turvy world. It wouldn't be that way if we weren't right in the middle of it all. If our perspectives came from a bigger source than 'us'. The question isn't even what is better- to stay at home or work; to stay married or 'live your dreams'. The question is what's in the centre of your life?
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