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So, big news...
Fields quit smoking...
Oh yeah, other big news...
Fields had started smoking...
I finally realized last night that it was becoming a problem. Not that it's not a problem, or has varying degrees of problem-ness...but when I made the conscious effort to go out and smoke rather than do my homework, something had to be done.
I sat in my chair, staring at my computer for a good half hour, debating and arguing why I didn't need to quit, why I couldn't just hang on to it until I graduated or got a job, whichever came first. Then I realized...graduation. From the school of ministry. With a preaching degree. I'm spending four years and tens of thousands of dollars at Kentucky Christian University to become a preacher. A servant of God. And while I do not think preachers are held to a higher standard of holiness than other people (or, at least, they shouldn't be), nor do I believe smoking, as long as it doesn't come before God, is a sin, I had put that smoking in front of God. I left my homework, for a Bible class, that's training me to become a messanger of God, to go smoke. So, after more debating, I prayed for strength, grabbed my cigars and my lighter, and took them to my R.A....
That went easier than expected. Rob was real cool about he. He's praying for me, he gave me some suggestions, and then sent me to get a shower and pray. As I came back from the shower, he handed me back my lighter, with Luke 22:40 written on the side of it (the reference, not the whole verse):
On reaching the place, he said to them, "Pray that you will not fall into temptation."
So that's what I've been doing. I've been praying for strength, the binding of Satan, and conviction to quit. I chewed some gum today...in fact, I chewed ALOT of gum today. Tomorrow I'm still going to pop a peice of gum in my mouth, but I'm also going to sit down and read a chapter of the Bible when I get the urge to smoke. There is truth in the Word of God...and the Truth shall set you free...
Just felt like sharing. Other than this, nothing much else is new. I had a wonderful time over the weekend at the lock-in at Kendal's church, and I'm falling deeper in love with Kendal as each minute, hour, and day passes. God bless everyone.
Are you willing to slay the dragon?
Fields quit smoking...
Oh yeah, other big news...
Fields had started smoking...
I finally realized last night that it was becoming a problem. Not that it's not a problem, or has varying degrees of problem-ness...but when I made the conscious effort to go out and smoke rather than do my homework, something had to be done.
I sat in my chair, staring at my computer for a good half hour, debating and arguing why I didn't need to quit, why I couldn't just hang on to it until I graduated or got a job, whichever came first. Then I realized...graduation. From the school of ministry. With a preaching degree. I'm spending four years and tens of thousands of dollars at Kentucky Christian University to become a preacher. A servant of God. And while I do not think preachers are held to a higher standard of holiness than other people (or, at least, they shouldn't be), nor do I believe smoking, as long as it doesn't come before God, is a sin, I had put that smoking in front of God. I left my homework, for a Bible class, that's training me to become a messanger of God, to go smoke. So, after more debating, I prayed for strength, grabbed my cigars and my lighter, and took them to my R.A....
That went easier than expected. Rob was real cool about he. He's praying for me, he gave me some suggestions, and then sent me to get a shower and pray. As I came back from the shower, he handed me back my lighter, with Luke 22:40 written on the side of it (the reference, not the whole verse):
On reaching the place, he said to them, "Pray that you will not fall into temptation."
So that's what I've been doing. I've been praying for strength, the binding of Satan, and conviction to quit. I chewed some gum today...in fact, I chewed ALOT of gum today. Tomorrow I'm still going to pop a peice of gum in my mouth, but I'm also going to sit down and read a chapter of the Bible when I get the urge to smoke. There is truth in the Word of God...and the Truth shall set you free...
Just felt like sharing. Other than this, nothing much else is new. I had a wonderful time over the weekend at the lock-in at Kendal's church, and I'm falling deeper in love with Kendal as each minute, hour, and day passes. God bless everyone.
Are you willing to slay the dragon?