A The Baptist Deacon

Today is Valentines Day. I pray each of you have someone special you can share it with. You know God is good. The blessing he has afforded me with I can never thank him enough, even something as simple as breathing. How often do we take salvation for granted? Jesus suffered and died so we could have salvation.

This morning I wanted to spend a few minutes on Valentines Day. I used to think that it was just an excuse to pick someone’s pocket a world made holiday to boost sales in stores, and what do I do each year; I wait until the last second and go pick over the left over gifts in the middle of a crowd of other men who waited until it was almost too late as well. 

This year I decided not to wait until the last second to shop. I picked up my simple gifts last week. Candy for the boys a small teddy bear with a few pieces of candy for the little girl and a larger teddy bear with more candy for my wife. It was nothing big just something to express that they are all special.

This year my wife and I will be married for 18 years. We haven’t always seen eye to eye on everything, she has been aggravating on several things and I sure she’s let me off easy compared to the aggravation Im sure I have caused her.

This morning she is the reason I set here at the computer writing this post. She truly is my soul mate. I truly am blessed more than I deserve with a woman that gives me her love for I really feel loved by her. She is a real gift from God. She is something real, with real love and affection. She completes me.

I know that the devil has things in the world to hinder the work of God and the work of marriage. One of those things is the internet. When used properly it is one of the greatest tools ever invented. It also provides a place for predators of all kinds. Some target children some target men neither are a good thing.

Men get trapped in an addiction to porn and I call it an addiction. Have you ever known a man that viewed porn regularly? It is nearly impossible to break this addiction unless there is some accountability set up, a lot of prayer or just taking his access to the internet away. The porn sites are so easy to access.

I believe God made all women beautiful and men enjoying looking, I understand that and I also understand that some women use it to there benefit to get what they want. I’m not trying to make it sound like the women are to blame. Let’s go back to the Garden of Eden. In Geneses chapter 3 the serpent came to Eve. The deceiver had a conversation with her. Then the lie came in verse 4 when he told her “ye shall not surely die.” Then look at verses 5 & 6:  ⁵For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. ⁶And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. The lie completed the deception.  She saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes.

This is how sin works. There was some truth mixed in with the lie. Sin pleases the eye and it pleases the flesh, but there is only pleasure in sin for a season. What price does one pay for deception and sin? It took Adam to complete the sin. In other words in this case it took two.

Women that exploit there beauty to get what they want only works if the man accepts in other words it takes two.

I would like to think that a Christian woman and a Christian man would be strong enough to avoid this kind of temptation, but sadly this is not always the case.

Now you can turn the tables, some men are able to exploit their good looks to get what they want out of women. Men will even take it a step farther and promise a woman anything to get what they want then they drop them like dirty laundry when they get it.

Let’s go back to the porn sites for a few minutes. They degrade women. They change a mans perspective of what a real woman is. It is hard for a man who falls into this trap to distinguish between what is real and what is fictional. What about young boys who see this stuff by accident? I say by accident because it is out there looking for them. It could set there outlook toward women. They can even expect things that just can’t happen.

Proverbs chapter 31 verse 30: Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

Husbands respect your wife. Men show women the respect they deserve. Do not get caught up in the unreal world of porn, if you do get help.

God created woman from man because he saw the he was alone and therefore a woman is a gift to man from God. Men treat your woman as a gift something to be cherished and loved.

I am from Sparta Tennessee. It is a small town in the middle of the state East of Nashville and West of Knoxville.
I have been a Christian for twenty - one years. This does not mean that I am perfect just forgiven, saved by the wonderful grace of God.
I am married to a wonderful woman and we have four kids three boys and a little girl.
I am active in my community as well as in my church. I am currently serving as church clerk and treasurer. I was set aside for the office of Deacon and ordained in May of 2002.

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