You think no one will know it. Its just you buying a Hummer. So you buy the Hummer. But guess what? It might be private for a while, but after a while people are going to notice, Hey, John, new ride! Hummer? Wow! Pretty awesome. Ive never seen one of these things. Look at the size of those tires! Wow! What happened there? The private decision all of a sudden went public.
Lets say you want to buy a house. You say, I like that house in that neighborhood in that zip code. The kids would like that. Ill buy the house. You know, no one will know. Its private. You know Im just buying a house. Now, you think that no one will know, but yes they will. Give it a couple of days. People will begin to say, Whoa! You got a new house? Really? Can I see it? Whats your dcor? That private decision all of a sudden went public. Whatever I do in private, whatever you do in private becomes public. I dont care what it is. It does. It influences someone or something else.
When you face a decision ask yourself this question, Is it written? Say, God, youre my standard. Youre my true source. I know you have my best interest in mind. And just think about it. Had all of us turned to the Lord and asked us one question, we would not be swimming those laps of regret in the pool of remorse, would we? We wouldnt be there. Wed have saved all this time, all this trouble, all this money and energy if wed just asked, Is it written? Thats the big macro question weve got to ask. Is it written?
Heres another one. This other ones going to be very, very short. Were looking at Jesus, specifically John 9:1. Let me read this first and then Ill elaborate. Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth (NKJV).
The Sexperiment states that they dont have time to read the whole text, but heres the situation. Picture a dusty, dry Sabbath in the Middle East. Picture a beautiful temple. Now you see Jesus walking with his disciples outside the temple, maybe in a courtyard area. And there were a lot of Pharisees milling around. Pharisees were these condescending, legalistic, religious people. And Jesus was against religion. He was. Jesus was all about a relationship, not a religion. Pharisees were religious on steroids. They made up all of these laws; hundreds of things you could not do on the Sabbath. For example, they had a certain amount of steps you could take on the Sabbath. Uh-oh, you took more than X amount of steps. [honk] The fringe on your garment had to be a certain length. If it was too short or too long, [honk]. It was wheels off, crazy, ludicrous stuff.
