Lighten up?


Writer Author  Sylvia Huffnagle
Christian Article : Apologetics  - Fiction  No

Christian Author Writer A popular phrase right now is; “Oh, lighten up.” In fact many people including Christians think that a person should lighten up. If lighten up means—don’t be so serious or don’t take life so serious or joke and fool around a little—I don’t identify with it. I get my instruction from the Word of God and I am putting many of them in this article to make sure Christians don’t lighten up in any way that would put them in a vulnerable place or that would cause them to be a bad example to others. Make sure your ‘lighten up’ does not lead you to behave as the world does.

Ex: 15:26: And said, If thou wilt diligently (1 persevering and careful in work; 2 industrious done with careful, steady effort; painstaking) hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

Deut: 4:9: Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

Deut: 6:7: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Deut: 11:13: And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deut: 11:22: For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

Deut: 28:1: And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

Prov: 3:21: My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Prov: 4:13: Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

Prov: 11:27: He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.

Isa: 55:2: Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Lk: 21:34-36: And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35: For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36: Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

1Cor: 10:12: Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed (heed, beward, mind; see take care at care, watch out) lest he fall.

1Cor: 15:33: Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Gal: 6:7: Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

1Thesss: 5:6: Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober ([Solemn] — Syn. restrained, earnest, grave; see solemn 1, serious 2.).

1Thes: 5:8: But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

1Tim: 5:10: Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

Titus: 1:7-8: For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; 8: But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

Titus: 2:2: That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

Titus: 2:4: That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Titus: 2:6: Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

Titus: 2: 7-8: In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, 8: Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

Heb: 11:6: But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Heb: 12:15: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

1Pt: 1:13: Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

1Pt: 4:7: But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

1Pt: 5:8: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

2Pt: 3:14: Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

©Sylvia Huffnagle







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