Temptation
I'm not sure if you all have read Genesis Chapter 19. Thats the chapter about Sodom and Gomorrah Being destroyed, I never read it till about two weeks ago, but it was a story i knew well from childhood, I remember hearing somwhere where a faimly was running for there life and the mom looked back and was turned into a piller of salt, funny what you remember ah?
If your not up to speed on the story maybe have a read of it so you'll fully understand what I'm babbling about.
After I read it it sort of stuck with me and I was sort of chewing on it.
Last week I started what many would call a dream job. For the 1st time in years I became a employee at a local drilling company. All I did there was weld, not in charge of anything but my self, and was compinsated greatly ( about twice the going rate for welders ) the best of everything at my disposal, the shop had everything it was huge about 100'x200' , 10 ton overhead crane, 500 amp welder, every tool you could think of, and if they didn't have it they would get it, state of the art ventalation systym, super clean and best of all not to many people just me and another guy etc.......................
I really liked it there but there was only one thing that I didn't like........ temptation. The other guy there drank, hated women, cused and really from what I took of the situation felt that all his short comings where in some ways justafied, pretty much the definition of what I was not to long ago.
The first day on my dream job I knew that I was going to be battling temptation the whole way. It was sort of a shocker for me to find myself craving a beer, up to that point since I quit drinkin just to go into the patrica hotel would make my stomach turn from the stench of booze I thought the days of me drinkin where long gone. But I thought "hey I got self contol, I made it this far, I can resist it"" this job is just to good to walk away from""whats the worst that could happen"
By day two I knew that this job wasn't for me, I could already feel my self becoming more complacint in my values, and I didn't like it one bit. I'm not sure if all of you can look back at past actions with utter disgust but I look back at what I was and hate it and dont want to do anything even romotely close to my old behavoir, or jeprdise what I have now in any shape or form. It was friday I decide to think about it over the weekend.
All weekend I thought about my great or not so great job. What should I do? Am I strong enough to resist it? etc..........
Then my friend Frank pops back into my life at Clarsolm. It was real great to see him again, I really havnt saw him since last fall so we cought up on whats happening in each others life, and of course we talked quit a bit about the gospal. This and that, and I brought up Lot at sodom and Gromarrah, and then it hit me. One must flee temptation, just as lot and his faimly did, and dont dare look back. God was telling me the whole time what to do ( by keeping this story in my head), I just wasn't paying attention to what he was saying. I should head for the hills in this case, the devil was just using my lusts as bait to recruit me into his service.
Have you guys ever heard of the frog and the hot pot of water saying. Put a frog in a boiling pot of water he'll jump out! Put a frog in a cold pot of water he'll swim around, turn the heat on he'll swim around till you got frog soup! I think thats the devils best trick, it always starts out as " Just have 1 beer." ( uselly turns into about 2 dozen ) or " One little lie wont hurt anybody" ( no body ever thinks about having to tell the 100 lies to cover up the first one!) etc.............................................................................................they go on for ever!
Another thing that sort of stuck with me from last weekend was me and the boys where sitting in the truck on sunday listen to 1140 chrb, and this pastor from Newzeland was a preaching and he said " When your hangin from heaven from a 10 link chain; only 1 of them links has to fail and you'll fall into Hell!" That is somthing that I think will stick with me forever, just another simple truth.
If your not up to speed on the story maybe have a read of it so you'll fully understand what I'm babbling about.
After I read it it sort of stuck with me and I was sort of chewing on it.
Last week I started what many would call a dream job. For the 1st time in years I became a employee at a local drilling company. All I did there was weld, not in charge of anything but my self, and was compinsated greatly ( about twice the going rate for welders ) the best of everything at my disposal, the shop had everything it was huge about 100'x200' , 10 ton overhead crane, 500 amp welder, every tool you could think of, and if they didn't have it they would get it, state of the art ventalation systym, super clean and best of all not to many people just me and another guy etc.......................
I really liked it there but there was only one thing that I didn't like........ temptation. The other guy there drank, hated women, cused and really from what I took of the situation felt that all his short comings where in some ways justafied, pretty much the definition of what I was not to long ago.
The first day on my dream job I knew that I was going to be battling temptation the whole way. It was sort of a shocker for me to find myself craving a beer, up to that point since I quit drinkin just to go into the patrica hotel would make my stomach turn from the stench of booze I thought the days of me drinkin where long gone. But I thought "hey I got self contol, I made it this far, I can resist it"" this job is just to good to walk away from""whats the worst that could happen"
By day two I knew that this job wasn't for me, I could already feel my self becoming more complacint in my values, and I didn't like it one bit. I'm not sure if all of you can look back at past actions with utter disgust but I look back at what I was and hate it and dont want to do anything even romotely close to my old behavoir, or jeprdise what I have now in any shape or form. It was friday I decide to think about it over the weekend.
All weekend I thought about my great or not so great job. What should I do? Am I strong enough to resist it? etc..........
Then my friend Frank pops back into my life at Clarsolm. It was real great to see him again, I really havnt saw him since last fall so we cought up on whats happening in each others life, and of course we talked quit a bit about the gospal. This and that, and I brought up Lot at sodom and Gromarrah, and then it hit me. One must flee temptation, just as lot and his faimly did, and dont dare look back. God was telling me the whole time what to do ( by keeping this story in my head), I just wasn't paying attention to what he was saying. I should head for the hills in this case, the devil was just using my lusts as bait to recruit me into his service.
Have you guys ever heard of the frog and the hot pot of water saying. Put a frog in a boiling pot of water he'll jump out! Put a frog in a cold pot of water he'll swim around, turn the heat on he'll swim around till you got frog soup! I think thats the devils best trick, it always starts out as " Just have 1 beer." ( uselly turns into about 2 dozen ) or " One little lie wont hurt anybody" ( no body ever thinks about having to tell the 100 lies to cover up the first one!) etc.............................................................................................they go on for ever!
Another thing that sort of stuck with me from last weekend was me and the boys where sitting in the truck on sunday listen to 1140 chrb, and this pastor from Newzeland was a preaching and he said " When your hangin from heaven from a 10 link chain; only 1 of them links has to fail and you'll fall into Hell!" That is somthing that I think will stick with me forever, just another simple truth.
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