Hanging By A Moment

Hanging by a Moment

Lately I’ve got to admit that I have been side tracking, distracted, lazy and unmotivated. Could the hype of SOS be fading away? Was I living simply on the hype?

Wake up to yourself! And CHOOSE LIFE! I love the verse Shelah and Caterine Fuertes talked about last Generation Fresh Night:

Deuteronomy 30:19

“Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessing and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make.

I was thinking to myself this week, “should I go back to who I was?” That was probably the stupidest thought I’ve ever had! The further you FALL, the more distance you have to regain back; towards God and living a Holy life.

Well I choose to not live on hype, a temporary satisfaction, I want God who is eternal. The world and the enemy can be ruthless and cruel, to tempt and destroy you in any way possible. You may not even know it, but the littlest things can influence your actions in life. Reacting to an influence is caused only by being exposed to a one. Have you ever realised that companies all around the world are spending millions of dollars for a few seconds of your time? To glance at a billboard takes at least two seconds or 30 seconds listen to a radio advertisement and thousands of dollars were used to create them. Coke measured an advertising expenditure of US$2.6 Billion in 2006, spent on print, radio, internet, and television advertising. T.V commercials only last for a few seconds, and they are played to try and influence you into purchasing their product. From this we can see that the human brain can be easily influenced through the littlest thing. So for guys, if a girl is jogging down the road to exercise and you’re driving by, don’t have a look or whistle. Or for girls, if a guy has a shirt off, don’t gaze. The smallest influence can trigger a downslide in your life. I know this through experience, that when you’re exposed to certain situations, it causes you to want to follow. Clubbing has that influence of dressing to impress the other sex and consuming large amount of alcohol and since you’re exposed to it you would want to follow.

Don’t get me wrong you can have a great time socialising with your friends at a club, but if you really want to live a holy life with God why would you want to get expose and possibly influenced by the worldly down falls in life? Be exposed to holy people and you will be influenced to be holy; in return expose your Holiness to the world. A holy person has holy standards.

Ate flor preached last Friday at Raise, and she said “know your standards before you can maintain it”, also to know Gods standards. How do you know what God’s standards are you ask? Well she told us, and its really simple, to read the word. To have Godly standards you must know your standards first. Once you know your personal standards maintain them, stay strong and overcome negative influences and temptations.

-Mac