Hm...I guess we're all guilty

I was thinking about Prop.8 and how heated it has become, esp. reading that the "Yes (and No) on 8" lawn signs were graffittied or stolen throughout the past few days across the country. It's so easy to see the 'speck' in other people's eye and forget to notice the huge piece of wood in my own eye (Luke 6:41). When it comes to sexual immorality, we are all guilty before the Lord, in one form or another. What the children of God (or those professing to be followers of Jesus Christ) need to do is to become examples of purity, in their own homes, workplace, and community. This is not only outwardly but in our own thought life as well. When no one is looking and when it's late at night, what do we do? We may not be able to change others' sexual behavior, but what we can do is to admit that we too, fall short of the holiness of the Lord and we (yours truly included, as I am constantly guilty of the same) need to come clean with the Lord daily about our own S.O.S. (sins of sexuality). We are all weak in many ways, and the true need of all of us (sinners) is to come to a personal relationship with the Lord. Once we taste the great living water (or fine wine, as Jesus turns tap water into the best wine out there ^_^), we will not crave the old stuff, which are likened to old stale treats long after Halloween has passed. It's the heart of those lost and alone that should burden our hearts and bring us to our knees in love and concern for the lost, rather than being fixated on the outward actions. What comes out in action was once formed as seedlings in the heart and the mind, and this is where we pray that God's grace would touch. True that our bodies are the temple of God and we should not defile it, as a man who sins sexually sins against his/her own body while other sins are outside of the body. But the biggest culprit is that this is not only limited to homosexuality or fornification, but also abberant thoughts about the other gender and internet peek-a-booing as well. Before God, all sins are the same and thus as the body of Christ, we need to be the first ones to confess that we struggle and need God to help us in this area as well.... ~(*_*)~