Changing times

By this time in my life, I expect that I've seen a lot of things and I think that's a fair assumption for me to make. It seems almost amazing to "step back" from life and watch the amount of people, in recent years, that have the tremendous influence that they have on this earth; to watch these people have all of their influence erode away, in the blink of an eye, because of some type of sexual allegation. My fear, as I am finishing up the pursuit of my degree in ministry, is that I too will fall headlong into some type of catastrophic sin(and it doesn't even have to be a sexual sin) that will greatly affect the way that people today see the people they call "Christians."

It is truly unfortunate that the world stands back and watches Christian after Christian fail to live up to the expectations and rigorous rules that we place on our own lives. Not only this, but the fact that every time one Christian falls, the world becomes a little more hardened to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

My heart is utterly saddened by the way that sexual sin has literally ripped apart our culture. We fail to really see a detrimental error in our lives, until it is at the "point of no return," and our pedestals, that we have been balancing on with one leg for so long, is knocked out from underneath us. Nothing is truly more scary than to be exposed, in the light, for the monsters deep inside our own hearts.

I pray that God changes our hearts soon, before things get worse!