Be An Example

 ^{1 Timothy 4:12} Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.^NLT

 There's a lot of times when an older customer finds out I'm engaged their first question will be "how old are you?" 

Once I respond 20 they'll began to tell me how I'm to young for that. For some reason the older generation thinks that if you're young you shouldn't do certain things, or that you can't do them. I really need to learn not to let that discourage me. As long as I'm following God's will for my life it really doesn't matter what age I am, what matters is that I'm following God.
 This next part of the verse bought some guilty feelings. I know there's a lot of people who think I'm a great example, but I know I'm not. I have hidden sin in my life, that if they found out about they wouldn't think I'm a good example anymore. They would think I'm a hypocrite, even though they wouldn't know the whole story about how hard I've been trying to get rid of this sin, they would just see that I sinned. 

Although, nothing is to big for God. He''ll use my mistakes for his glory as well. I can still be an example. Even if it's just an example on what they need to make sure they don't do. He'll still use it. I just need to make sure I'm still striving as much as possible to be an example in every aspect of my life for those who not only believe, but those who don't believe as well. 

Those other two days were unbelievable easy to not fail with Kevin, but that was only because I didn't see him. I actually spent the entire day with him today, and we didn't mess up! Don't get me wrong, it was very tempting at times, but for the most part, we didn't even allow ourselves in a bad situation where we could have potentially sinned.

  I do have a confession though, I did let him rub my back and belly underneath my shirt for a little bit. That wasn't okay at all, I know. Until we're married, there is no reason whatsoever that his hand needs to ever go underneath my shirt. We need to work on that more, but still compared to what we have been doing, the fact that we did that little amazes me! I still count today as a victory for that reason. Of course, we couldn't have done it without God! He deserves all the credit for this victory! Day Three Completed!!



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