Tonight as I was walking home from church, I witnessed a sight that both astounded and disgusted me. As I approached an alleyway, there was a young girl, perhaps in her early twenties with her hand covering her mouth as she peered into the dark hiddenness of the alley. As I drew nearer, I followed her gaze, curious to know what could be the source of this reaction.
There was a man standing beside the dumpster in plain view of passersby. There was no hiding the fact that he was urinating there. In my neighbourhood, it's not so extraordinary to observe a man using the alleyway as his lavatory, but what was disturbing about this man is that he was not one whom I would see on the corner selling dope, or pimping the young girl or being forced to the ground by police officers. They looked like they just walked out of a GAP commercial, and just because he could, he thought it would be funny to take a leak in the alley, and so he did, much to the amusement of his female companion who giggled as he zipped up his fly.

God spoke to me strongly through that bringing me to Galatians 5:13:

"But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature."

Although we condone it, it is not really OK for my neighbours to urinate in the alleyways, I wish they didn't have to, but quite often because of they circumstances they feel that they have little choice. However, it was certainly not OK for GAP boy to do it. He should've known better, because that's not how he had been taught to behave.

In the same way, God sees us act out in sin. He hates it on His lost children who may not know any better, and He still hates it on one of His redeemed sons or daughters.

ugly to Him when an addict takes a hoot off of a crack pipe. It's still ugly when a child of God takes the hit.
So don't do it.

It's ugly to Him when a pervert leers at a woman lustfully, imagining her in depraved sexual scenes. It's still ugly when a man of God leers.
So don't do it.

It's ugly to Him when an immoral woman will use her body as a means to beguile men. It's still ugly when the women of the church dress revealingly all in the name of 'fashion' at the expense of their visually stimulated brothers in Christ.
So don't do it.

We should know better.
"For you have been called to live in freedom--not freedom to satisfy your sinful nature"

Ruhani