#10. You suffered a setback this week and you did not respond appropriately. A setback could be something that you did or something that was done to you. In either case, it is not good and it makes you question yourself and perhaps even God. Setbacks happen, you are going to make mistakes (because you are human) and some bad stuff is going to come into your life (because you need some character and toughness). The appropriate response to your messing up is to repent, stop doing crazy stuff, trust that God has forgiven you AND MOVE FORWARD. The appropriate response to God allowing some crazy stuff to happen to you is to continue to talk to God and hope in God and endure like a good soldier. People think that because we don't do all the dumb stuff they do, somehow Christians are soft- UNTRUE. We are thee toughest people on the planet. When things get rough, we do not back down or go running, we just keep advancing. Don't be no scardy cat, God is not in that. Move forward.
#9. You refuse to even attempt to read the bible (though we give you great advice and translations right here). Here is how it goes. To communicate effectively with God (pray) you need to know something about God. The more you know about God, the better you can talk to God because you will know what moves God. While this blog is a great resource and jumping off point, the best source of information about God is contained in, you guessed it, the bible. The more of the bible you read AND understand (which is why you need a better translation than King James), the closer you will get to God and the less likely you will be to do crackish stuff (please refer to previous post).
#8. You hang out with ignorant people doing ignorant things. I think that is self explanatory. You are going to have to find some friends who support and practice a Christian lifestyle. Most people refuse to do this but most people get whopped by the weekends too.
#7. You listen to crazy music and watch crazy stuff on TV. If you DON"T do #1 and you DO this, God help you because we will NOT be able to. If what I was about to say were a check, you could take it to the bank and cash it: You can choose to believe what you want but television and music have a direct impact on your thoughts and in turn your behavior. I'm not telling you to stop watching TV or listening to music but you need to be aware of what it is doing to you. If you spend all day listening to Trey Songz, you will start to think freaky thoughts and want to do freaky things with freaky people and eventually BAM! We will be dragging you out of the freaky gutter. Same thing with TV, you want to know why you are depressed? How about you stop watching a TV that parades around impossible standards of beauty and money and see if you don't start to feel a leeeetle better about your situation. Just try it. If not, you will take all your cues about appropriate weekend activities from singers and actors (who by the way are professional liars....just sayin).
#6 - #1: You have not talked to God all week. You are going down in smoke and flames. When you go all week without communicating with your boo (God, go with me), your relationship is on extremely shaky ground. By not talking to God, you distance yourself from God. The further you go from God, the closer you get to acting a total fool. The likelihood of showing your tale increases dramatically as you head into the weekend where unbelievers have been waiting all week just to see how stupid they can really get. If you have not talked to God, you need to get off the internet and get to talking before you wake up on crack (please refer to the previous post).
This is a lot but you have all weekend to think it over. We have things to do, don't waste the weekend being crazy.
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