1) On pornography

Now many a time a man, especially the Christian man, would feel a certain guilt in the midst of being addicted to porn. Many a man knows that there SHOULD be a restraining order on his part as he needs to “not live according to the desires of the flesh.” Many a Christian man ALSO knows that the symptoms, physical ones at least, DO NOT go away after entry level to salvation.

Now the issue here is not what a man SHOULD DO but how a man SHOULD HEAL. Remember that Jesus is all about healing in the new covenent.

I shall affirm my contention using John Eldredge’s quote: “where a man’s WOUND is, there will his GLORY be also.” I believe these words a trustworthy.

Now here is where the problem lies. If a man addresses symptoms, this is just symptomatic relief. It is fighting the flesh, fighting the good fight without a healed breastplate. I am talking of the breastplate of righteousness here. The fight must always be fought with a healed heart.

Many men who are addicted to masturbation generally have a strong need to be loved by touch. How does one expect to touch the world with healing if he himself has NOT been touched with healing. Here lies the answer, spoken by Eldredge himself: “you cannot be the man who rescues … until you are the man without a horse, the man who needs rescuing.”

2) On forgiveness

Here I’ll just give a short statement to keep it short and sweet. Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a FEELING.

Up next I will be writing about the FEMALE HEART. Stay tuned.

Just as the birds have their supplications,
By faith I know that I have justifications,
to say that He rewards me that earnestly seeks,
those others’ who in turn shall turn cheeks.

The Councillor of creations carries no counts,
of time, nor money nor foolish mouths,
the same flame that destroyed Babylon,
will consume your temporal beyond.

The ropy rushes are refraining rage,
Holy fires are abstaining angry laws,
Alike it, nurture patience, absurd age,
Open the ears instead of jabbering jaws.

Laptops can become a distraction during class. Oh how amazing some object of great value can become a instrument of destruction. The delicate vertebrate of the homo sapiens are, as well, an intricate design made to do good deeds, but we have chosen our own ways, and misused the privileges we gain. Good things that have value can draw our attention away from what we should be paying attention to. This was true for Martha. Luke 10:40 says she was “distracted with much serving,” which took her away from spending time with Jesus.In the same way, a good hobby can have value in and of itself. But if it distracts you from your family responsibilities or relationship with God, some changes are needed.

Are life’s good options distracting you from what your primary priorities should be? Return, as Jesus told Martha, to what “is needed.”  — Dave Branon

A Prayer: Help me, Lord, to make and to keep right priorities. To put You and time with You first. Give me discernment and the willingness to obey You today. Amen.

(Luke 10:41-42) 41″Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42but only one thing is needed.[a] Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not
be taken away from her.”
The birds know of where to lay,
to sing, too, but only in day,
Protecting family, hey,
never swans from mind’s bay.

A tree is withering to shreds,
not whining on shortening crests,
The tree delights in its fruit and rests,
Look at what we kept bests!

Branches burn, twigs scatter,
Palled eyes scan the smother,
but ripe fruits tell its never,
too late to save another.

As a commitment-phobe, I find it difficult to form strong relationships. I never thought I would journey into the realm of the marriage life. I would be skipping the joy of seeing a life passing down from a generation of my own blood. I, therefore, realise that I have a tendency to stay true to an earthly obsession. This quote I strongly remember from an Episode from House (DNR) where a legendary jazz musician John Henry Giles is checked into the hospital and when he’s told he’s dying from ALS, he signs a DNR to avoid a slow death. House disagrees with the diagnosis and goes against everyone’s wishes when he violates the DNR to save Giles’ life.

House: And that’s all you are, musician?
Giles: I got one thing, same as you.
House: Really? Well apparently you know me better than I know you.
Giles: I know that limp. I know that empty ring finger. And that obsessive nature of yours, that’s a big secret. You don’t risk jail in your career to save somebody who doesn’t want to be saved unless you got something, anything, one thing. The reason normal people got wives and kids and hobbies – whatever. That’s because they ain’t got that one thing that hits them that hard and that true. I got music, you got … this – the thing you think about all the time. The thing that keeps you south of normal. Yeah, makes us great. Makes us the best. All we miss out on is everything else. No woman waitin’ at home after work with the drink and the kiss. That ain’t gonna happen for us.
House: That’s why God made microwaves.
Giles: Yeah. But when it’s over, it’s over.

I like music too. And so in light of the Colossians 3:2 verse, that begs the question: “Is music temporal or eternal?” This is, I would call, a b7, or a grey area of life, much like justice versus vigilatism. That is why people follow Jesus. It is the “Messiah complex”. I have more of a “Rubik’s complex”, I would say.
Bill Crowder writes: … only as we allow our values to be motivated and shaped by the eternal (not the temporal) will we be effective ambassadors of Christ in the world. It is in the understanding that we are pilgrims in this world, not tourists, that we can keep a clear perspective and an undistracted heart—and can more effectively serve the Savior.
(Colossians 3:1-4,5,8) 1Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is your[a] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.8But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

Of what kingdom is stable,
Of what kingdom is humble,
Of what kingdom is gentle,
Of what kingdom is sacrificial.

Hidden are the lives that are in the Messiah,
The Creator’s custodian to save them all,
to set division between heaven and crimson fire,
to him who lacks belief, he says, stand tall!

Stand tall in your relationships,
Stand tall as humble ambassadors,
Stand tall in hardships,
at the end of your trials there are rewards!

Payoffs that peel the pelt of the pupil,
revealing the apple of your eye that sees no turmoil,
and he shall enunciate you with a will,
this heritage is yours you who have zeal.

How long will they delight in shameful ways,
and not pay a peek to the pious who prays,
come to Him, all who are burdened in confusion,
Rest is raining, do not rust, there is resolution.

The thief hounds in deep darkness,
ridiculing the accountable,
Why like me not be careless?
Everything on earth is destructible.

Another thief steps onto the crossroad uncertain,
and glances to the Gods from the stage,
Remember me! as I slip behind the parted curtain,
I do not want my wrongs to against me rage.

Brother in darkness,
why not turn while yet you may;
Too late, it soon will be—
there is more to life than negligence,
a place where it is always day,
Throughout eternity.

Death will not consume me,
for by the One who died unjust on the cross,
will pardon me before the jury,
only because I confessed His glory I lost.

The dark thief shouts in guarantee,
Ill show Him whose boss,
the words he said just was,
immense sound and fury.

The apostle Paul used running a race as a picture of the Christian life. Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. —1 Corinthians 9:24

I thought about the sports-lovers. Why the inclination to activities that inspire achievement, even from centuries past, if not for physique and fitness in our advanced society? There was once where I touched the badminton shuttlecock. My world is now made out of the court, the net, the racket and the opposing player serving the shuttle. I loved the smoothness of the racket shell and the tensions of racket strings. I could not take the poor ventilation; the potential injuries. I could not bare the fact that I had to actually learn the technicalities of the sport. Does not sport stem from the heart’s creativity and not conventional practice?

The bottom line is we all want a prize. The question is not whether I hit it out or in the last time, or whether sports education is necessary. Does not matter whether that self-coached multi-talented player breached the rules of hard work. Does not matter if the man-made event was unfair to us. Our hearts are in the game. We are on a mission. I will bring to the floor the heart of man. I win for the people. I shall not hit the air with a raging inordinate hit that sends only wind down my side. I will show blamelessness in sports. Either I win fairly or I do not win at all. Because the prize is not here on the earth. It is in the heavens. I set my head above, therefore I never run out of love of the sport.

Not only did Paul teach this but he lived it out. In his final epistle, he said, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Tim. 4:7)
(1 Corinthians 9:19-23, 25a, 27)Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 20To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. 21To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. 22To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. 23I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. (NOTE: We are under Christ’s law – the law of redemption because of love)
25Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training [...] 27 [sic] I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

And yes I will not. We will not win scolding the imperfection of the world and glorifying ourselves. But we will win with dignity, with wisdom, and in truth.

The game is beautiful in my eyes,
I see societies who for it die,
the beauty of tactics in the minds eye,
but the wise craftsmen in the eye’s mind.
Strength of our foes we celebrate,
glorying in the sporty vertebrate.
Joyful we are in defeat,
Victory does not change our earthly beat,
Even if the beast hits my ball out,
I have got the joy of the game, watch out.

Jamie Foxx is attracted to signing on to the crime thriller Law Abiding Citizen. The key factor, according to the Herald Sun, is that as he is a big fan of Zack Snyder’s Spartan fantasy 300, in which now co-star Gerard Butler played the lead role.

This multi-talented Grammy nominee is keen to return to his stand-up comdedy roots. Putting his record plans on hold due to the disheartening leakage of his internet release recorded with Justin Timberlake, Foxx is concerntrating on the screenplay for Sheneneh and Wanda.

Foxx seems to have a repertoire of prosthetic makeovers and hairdos throughout his career. His sister does his hair for the different movies. It is sufficed to say there will not be much left of any of the Foxxes left on the set since his character (who is a women) changes hairstyles after every robbery. This one is a tough plot to crack.

His womanly quirky character with a cult following may be less dissolute a role as the vigilante father in Law Abiding Citizen that Foxx also plays, which includes Butler among the cast. Foxx has to blend into the “grey” world of justice versus vigilantism. Foxx, however, disagrees with Butler’s character, that “[we] should never take the law into our own hands.” Both he and Butler, as characters of “right and wrong”, are seemingly inclined to connect to their characters – in different ways. Jamie Foxx said he could relate to Butler’s vengeful character who desires to avenge his wife and daughter. The Herald Sun (28/1/2010) suggests implicitly that this is helped by Foxx having a daughter of his own. It is interesting to ponder, however, the ways Butler relates to his own character in Law Abiding Citizen after considering Butler’s confession that he has “daddy issues” (http://www.hollywoodheartbreaker.com/2009/11/28/gerard-butler-has-daddy-issues/) and therefore is a commitment-phobe.

Comments confirming Butler to be a commitment-phobe include his immense range of womanizing options; his online appearances are often linked with stars such as Jennifer Aniston, Cheryl Burke and Cameron Diaz. Hollywood Heartbreaker dot com states a tasteful conjecture – “Apparently he couldn’t get along with Jamie Foxx, because Foxx kept sneaking away to Vegas. I guess Gerard was upset that Jamie would get to those women before he could.”

“Because of their line of work, how they view relationships is skewed,” utters Dustin Clare  concerning the sex workers in upmarket neighbourhoods in Melbourne. In an attempt to flesh out his character Sean of the steamy drama Satisfaction, Clare spends time talking to them.

He emphasizes on their bravado and confidence in their sexuality. The series seems to surely play on the fantasies of men, or rather both genders for some. This focus on the fantasy aspect is demonstrated by the obvious lion’s share of storylines involving the motif of Sean and Nat’s relationship.

Clare states that the nudity and hard sex scenes are not in any way a disservice. Enough already has been pictured concerning the drugs, corruption and crime side of the equation. Clare emphasizes on the safe working enviroment and his ability to make the people that he works with feel comfortable, especially the women. He describes with a good-hearted, creative flare concerning the director-actor relationship that makes possible this debauchee flick. He utters, “The director has to understand how he wants us to cover it and we have to come up with … a dance really, that works with the coverage.”

Satisfaction, definitely the steamy drama to recommend to males whose sentiments lead them to discover, or rather live in the world of a gigolo.