SELF INCLINATIONS

I like to believe in just what is. There are plenty of good things in this world. I like a lot of those things. I have a loving family. Good friends. Going to probably get married to an amazing wife. But what's purpose. I've struggled with loneliness, lust, accountability at times. And I know all of these three thingss "family, friends, spouse." I've listed have purpose, but I think for spiritual leaders we put too much weight on such things. I think we don't look to our own baptism as THE turning point, but rather a stepping stone. When does life change really accur? Is it a wife that keeps a grown man from pornography? Is it good friends that keep us going? Then why do married men continue to look at pornogrpahy and why do people still say they are lonely when they have active lifestyles in the midst of a financially sound job and a huge bank statement? One's with a loving family who continually live for them? Bro's for their bro's? When did we put so much weight on worldly cures? When did they become so important they should be guaranteed? When did we become so fearful of not having them, then we are of not having GOd? When did we start to put so much faith that God will provide these things, rather than God just simply providing God? If tomorrow, or even the next year if all GOd did was walk with you and you had nothing else do you think you could deal with that? Do you think you would still give in just as you've been doing or that you'd be strengthened just by His presence? What if it meant leaving a family, holding off on a marriage, and leaving the friends you "ride" for? I think for the spiritual leaders of tomorrow there needs to be more of JUST GOD and less of anything else when it comes to the storms of life. Let the WORD be the soundest thing we have and let the wilderness, and fasting have it's place once again. An isolated existance can be bad. But the solatary with the only intimate relational constant, that being God, is not. When has it ever been okay to say we will continue to struggle and stumble until God gives us more worldly things. Or that God allows us to thrive "BETTER" under such conditions. Why is this the norm? Why are we taught to value such things to be cures for our remedie of the mundaine? Why can't God be God, and that be good enough? Do such views go against the value of the cross? Was not death beaten? Redemption and atonement is enough. There is the ONLY HOPE that really matters. There is the TRUE YOKE.