The Ultimate Dare

I'll start off a story as an example of where I'm going to go with this blog.
My newphews are all starting to reach that age where they realize that they have the ability to ignore adults. "Don't touch that!" Archer creeps closer. "Don't touch that Archer." Another step. "Archer, do not touch that." He touches whatever it was...and you now learn that telling them not to do something no longer suffices. You have to physically pull them away if they continue to ignore you! Now they aren't exactly ignoring you, there is purpose in what they are doing. They are pushing you further and further to see just how far they can get before you take action and they get into trouble. Some of you are laughing and thinking how difficult kids can be, probably reminiscing on times that you dealt with a kid doing the same thing. Remember how frustrating it was? Well adults are no different.

haha how did that feel? I was joking about kids and then I called everyone out for acting no differently! It didn't feel good to me either.

10 strict commandments...other spiritual guidelines (drinking, sex, lying...these things), and everlasting life as our reward! It is an easy gig right? NO! "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." Well we screwed that up. BUT we are forgiven! However this time we will be more cautious. And like my nephews, we test the waters of God. How far can we go before lightening strikes? Before we feel the loneliness and forsakenness? Well culture continually pushes further and further. It is, for the most part, culturally accepted to have pre-marital sex and to do drugs and get smashed...all in one night! I've actually heard people tell me that it is actually okay because culture accepts it...that christianity is adaptive of culture and so it changes as culture changes. This is true to an extent...but the rules and commandments are clearly universal! They don't change...God does not have political parties asking for amendments...God tells us not to do something and we continually step closer and closer to it! The closer to it we get the further away from Him we get. I've felt that distance and it is the worst feeling imaginable. Some people do not realize that they are feeling the distance because they have never felt true closeness with God.

In order to feel that closeness they have to HAVE TO step away from the things that pull us away from a relationship with our Father. We gotta step out of that ignorant culture that the world has developed and into one that has seemed to slip into the shadows. How many people do you think will do that? It is a big thing to ask someone to step out of the popular norm and into something challenging. We can not show them the reward...they have to discover it for themselves!

So the challange I present in this blog....
Quit seeing everything in black and white. Quit living the cultured cookie cutter lifestyle. Make a change! A life away from those distractions will grant you more reward than anything else on this earth can. We are taught to run away from challenges, to take the easy route....do not belittle yourself and accept what is easy. In the end life becomes more difficult and without purpose. Do not accept the current standards of the world! Just because culture okays it, it does not make whatever act it is okay! "But everyone is doing it!" Congratulations! Why don't you do something that everyone isn't doing? Afraid to stand out, be unique, and be different? Hold high standards and push yourself and others to meet them?

I dare you