Good Morning Friends,
“Marriage should be honored by all, and the
marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually
immoral. Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what
you have, because God has said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake
you.’ So we say with confidence, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What
can man do to me?’” (Hebrews 13:4-6)
Sex and money! The powerful lure of those two
temptations is nothing new. Perhaps it is true that they have become even more
dominant in our era, but they were powerful temptations 2,000 years ago, too. The
Hebrew writer challenges us to maintain our guard against those temptations and
not give in to their lure.
And there is help! God has promised never to
desert us. He offers His help in the fight against the lure of sex and money. The
power of those temptations is too great for us to be able to fight in our own
strength. But God offers to come to our aid!
The fight is not all God’s. We must struggle
to keep our attitude toward marriage right. We must learn to be content. And we
must reach out to the help God offers.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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