What a crock!
Selah.
Just some of the things I hate about this statement are:
But more than anything about the behavior in making this statement and choosing this demented lifestyle; these lies, these harmful and damaging determinations, these unsubdued behavioral choices, do not help this type of person of low morality to repent…
Not does it help anyone else…
Consider the victims (the true victims) who are slain by a drunk driver… Consider the crack babies: innumerable. Consider divorce, consider abuse – both physical and emotional. These are just a few drops in the bucket of hardships brought about by the person willingly choosing to ingest or/and drink substances they are fully aware are not more than likely, but absolutely, pollute their bodies.
Selah.
Troubling…
Especially disturbing is the truth that some of these people with this chosen destructive lifestyle were, at one time, regular church attendees at a true church.
NOTE:
In reading this Joy Story I remind you: I always give solutions; not choices. I always do, always have, and always will give the answer. Jesus Christ, Him born of a virgin, tempted in every way, never sinning, beaten, crucified, having died and being raised again to life by the Father in Heaven: He is the answer. He and He alone is more than able to make the most vile of sinners a most holy vessel.
Selah.
SEE HIM:
Colossians 2:6-15
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
Furthermore: the sinner is always without excuse. God has made Himself known and He has made a way out:
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
God will never accept lies: and an untrue excuse is a lie… Don’t try telling Him you couldn’t help yourself – or – that you didn’t know better!
Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
So Beloved, when you come across a person claiming their victimization claiming, “It’s the drugs.” because they shot up, they drank down, they inhaled, known injurious and lifestyle-altering and life-threatening help them by holding them accountable…
Selah.
And remember: God is more than able!
Growing up in a home without the love for God, an invalid father, heavy financial hardships, and tremendous (sometimes dangerous) discord is always difficult. Add on to that extreme shyness, a feeling of inferiority, and some may think this girl was rejected. But God’s hand was on her and His heart was for her. Today, Ann Marie Turner has performed many great services in Jesus’ name for the love of God and man; and for herself! She has ministered in the male correctional for over ten years. Along with this website, Ann is the author of Joy Stories, Volume One and The Free Incarcerated Man. Writing about the joy of the Lord and the victory that is available for a willing soul is one of Ann’s now greatest joys! Ann’s prayer for you is to overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony. Celebrate the God of the Bible and your personal victories in Christ unceasingly! Revelation 12:11 They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.