Who do you work for?

Brittany and I were in the car the other day talking. We weren't discussing much, just small talk. The conversation eventually wandered to some of the people who have come and gone from our church. They were all different people but they all had the same M.O. (modus operandi ) These were people who had a 'desire' to join us. They were people who wanted to be around us and share a personal thing with us. They wanted to worship with us. As time passed we as a church befriended them. We went out of our way to help them with transportation, bills, jobs, all kinds of stuff. More time went on, and they were good friends of ours. But life happened, people started running low on cash, started not having enough time to really help out. In other words, these people, our 'family,' were not getting the help they wanted. So, they dumped us. We were left slack-jawed and baffled. After all the time we invested, meals we fed them, help we gave them, they dumped us.

Time has given me this revalation: Many relationships are like this.

Novel, depressing idea huh?

Pretty obvious but it is an idea that deserves some thought. This attitude can have us chewing people up and spitting them out on a daily basis. This is a deadly attitude. A "me first" attitude that children have. And an attitude that ,sadly, many adults never grow out of. Just imagine it with me, an entire nation of 30-50 year old...children. All trying to figure out what is best for them. This mentality barely works in a home, let alone a nation.

Who here that has read this has been involved in a relationship like this?

User or used, it still leaves you wanting. The user walks away with the next target in their eye and a plan to get that next desire filled. The used is just left there standing wondering what happened, probably feeling empty. I see this happening a lot in teens. Usually when one party desires sex and the other party is just there, clueless. They may not know just what that single act entails, but I promise you it will change your life. It could permanently disfigure you spiritually, and set you on a quest to find that thing you lost. With the possibility of feeling empty or broken for the rest of your day. Or, if used as God intended, it could cement the most important earthly bond in your life. Sex was meant to be between a husband and a wife. God wired us to operate that way.

"But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. (1 Corinthians 7: 2-3)"

I know it's an awkward subject, but it's one I've found to be true.

-continued tomorrow.-