What do you say to the child who is talking about her mothers job as a stripper, and when you ask her what she thinks about that...she thinks its "awesome"? She's okay with people watching her mother dance naked and people think sexually of her. What do you say? I was mystified and flabbergasted all at once when I had this conversation with my student (7th grade)! I just kept thinking..... it's not the sin... it's the sinner that Christ died for. We are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God.
It amazes me how Satan can convince us and help us justify even the most blatant things. Somehow, this student, and her mother, think it's "awesome" (I just cringe when I think of that word used as a description of such an act). But then again, we live in a world where sex, nudity, and the misuse of the body is so common that people don't even bat an eye when it comes on on the tv or the movies. Why wouldn't it be okay if it's okay for the others. My heart grieves for this student. Please pray for her and her mother, and for me and my relationship with this student.
Every morning as I drive to work I pass three places that I pray for... the strip joint (which I pray that the woman would come to see Jesus and they would quit, and the place would shut down), the Plasma donation center (which I pray that those who are giving and receiving would be blessed), and the Dialysis place (that the people in there would feel the comfort of God as they go through such a process, and the nurses would show His love). Later I found out that one of my co-workers wife is getting dialysis from that particular place.... I wonder about the strip joint.
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