yeah that's the problem with US youngans,especially when u have money.I can relate.
This 1 is a big problem have to say!-adultry-looking at a woman with lust-This is King of the sins and all other sins could possibly bow down to this one.
Reminds me of ray speakin abt sum1(4got where nd who) who slept with 200 woman.do u remember readin somethin like that lili?
Don't worry we'll get to our 40's or 50's and look back and count our winnings
Ray said that about Garner Ted Armstrong in his study "Do James and Paul Contradict?" Of course, I've had well over that amount in my heart, so who am I to judge him?
Alex, remember one of your favorite verses: "For a righteous man falls seven times...."
AlsO: "being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Philippians 1:6. We cannot finish what God started in us---it will only happen in His timing, by His mercy.
I don't mean to discourage you, but I'm 30 years old and there's no end in sight for me either...but I know that Jesus Christ will triumph in the end. Our culture strives in vain to hold on to the beauty and vigor of youth---I, for one, am not afraid of getting old and seeing these lusts of the flesh die. 8)
All I can say is your in good company. I see these stupid testosterone ad's for the guys over 50 and they talk up all the benefits. I say they're a bunch of idiots. For one, I'm glad with declining testosterone and it's as God designed it. I think it's his way of taking it easy on the older guys after they went through the struggles of youth. I wish I could say that 'I' conquered this on my own but in truth the drives diminish as you get a little older so there is no room for boasting. There is no way to short cut this it's simply something you have to walk through and for most of us God doesn't miraculously deliver us from this. We simply have to walk it out.
Alex, I'm asking you this not to scold or preach. I promise I won't do either one however you answer.
With what you've learned at B-T, what does this mean to you?
"For by grace you are saved, through faith..."
I love you too, Alex! 8) Here's another great passage:
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand will save me. The LORD will accomplish what concerns me; Your lovingkindness, O LORD, is everlasting; Do not forsake the works of Your hands. Psalm 138:7-8.
David was a man of war and wrote often about his enemies. But our battles are spiritual; with passages like this from the Old Testament, I like to think of "enemies" as sins, or the Beast. The wrath of the Beast is great indeed, but the Lord's right hand will save us. He has started a work in us, and He will not forsake the word of His hands.
Alex:
It's all part of the painful humbling process. I'm 48 years old, and I have to take Axiron testosterone for medical reasons, as my T levels are very low, and I'm left with very little energy or strength otherwise. One of the side effects is increasing libido, and the Lord is causing me to deal with that. The Lords will be done. We are learning righteousness by having this experience of good and evil, which He intended. The beast within us is exceeding strong, but Jesus prays to the Father that our faith, which is His faith working in us, would not fail, and it won't. This strange work which they are working in us, is all about Them.
Dean
Hi Alex,
I certainly can't help the struggle you're having, probably can't really even understand it. But I thought I could maybe give you a little bit different way of looking at this.
You could say God made humans in 2 distinct segments, man and woman and I think they make up 2 parts of a whole... well mentally speaking. As a man has one way of thinking and women do seem to think somewhat differently. So when you put these 2 different minds together to reason, discuss, consider and come to a decision and you can come to a better answer. Isn't that what marriage should be?
But more to the point of what you were speaking of, there can be just one to be leader and head, to have the final say. God gives the man this position of authority, this place of, well superiority. Now having given the man such a lofty place and with his carnality every reason to be proud and haughty with it... so does God also give the man a counter balance of sorts? Maybe all the testosterone is a driving force giving man a desire for the woman to the point that it overrides his conceit in being above her?
Makes me think it's almost like 'a thorn in the flesh' for the man to humble him...
mercy, peace and love
Kat
I'm 48 years old, and I have to take Axiron testosterone for medical reasons, as my T levels are very low, and I'm left with very little energy or strength otherwise.
I'm 48 years old, and I have to take Axiron testosterone for medical reasons, as my T levels are very low, and I'm left with very little energy or strength otherwise.
BTW...
Didn't mean to imply that I think that everyone who takes the supplements are idiots. I know there are people that have their hormones out of whack for one reason or another and they can be beneficial to bring you up to where your supposed to be.
I'm referring to the advertisements to try to get guys in their 50's and 60's to take these drugs to leave them with the impression they can 'perform' like they are 18 years old again. In some ways it's a pain to get older and in other ways it's beneficial.
I don't mean to discourage you, but I'm 30 years old and there's no end in sight for me either...but I know that Jesus Christ will in the end. Our culture strives in vain to hold on to the beauty and vigor of youth---I, for one, am not afraid of getting old and seeing these lusts of the flesh die.