Caroline:What is there to wrestle about? Do you think there is something evil with the reproductive system that God created?
not at all but some of my friends in various holiness churches/movements really wrestle with it. I had a pastor who said cynically, "people always say 'as the Lord wills' until they get 3 kids in 3 years". I'm just glad it's a whole issue I don't have to contend with. Isn't there already enough stuff for the average couple to fight over? Well, some of my friends really hold to the wife in submission so they probably don't fight.
David wrote
Live like Jesus and you will do fine. It is not about lists. I'm sureCaroline:
there are things that I do not allow in my life that you allow in yours, but
each one of us must become fully persuaded. I don't drink coffee and I
don't wear jewelry, not even a watch or a wedding band. There have been
training times when God has required me to go without any media whatsoever,
no radio, no television, no newspapers, no internet, not anything for more
than a year. So I know what that is all about in the legalistic camps.
Most other times, I have had more liberty. The Lord desires for us not to
look at lists, but to walk in love. That is all. If love would cause us to
go without eating for days or weeks, so be it. If love would cause us to
forsake sleep or to sleep on the ground, so be it. Holiness is following
the Spirit despite the cries of the flesh and never being brought under the
power of the flesh. If you have liberty to watch movies or liberty to
forsake them, let every one do so to the glory of God. It really is that
simple. Walk in love and if you live in the Spirit, then you should also
walk in the Spirit. Learn what that means. Everyone who is walking in the
Spirit is walking in love and does not sin.
I can almost visualize g writing 'myth' on this one :-) but I fully understand and agree with what you wrote there. As you can guess, I know quite a few who do as you do, who wrestle with what it means to be holy, to follow Jesus, to follow the voice of God. I've liked every one of them and have even sojourned with them for a while. When I wrote a long time ago that obedience was complicated, I spoke from that experience.
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