What is my motive?

There are many things that we see today that are culturely accepted but not always is it biblical right. We were talking about samson a few days ago in Old Testament HisStory (OTH). How you can see the carnality in Samson the way he viewed his marriage and his gambling. This proposed the question on whether or not gambling is biblically a sin or not. We had about a half an hour class dicussion on gambling and when it becomes sin and ssome other cultural issues that we as christians just automatically think is a sin because our culture accepts it. Like, movies, clothes, music, alcholic drinks, language,...etc.

The big thing is alocholic beverages. In and of its self the liquid is not a bad thing. Beer, wine or any cooler is okay to drink. To have a cup of wine with a special meal, That's okay! I would do it if I was the legal age and I know of people who do. I'm not saying that because they do it makes okay but to point out a fact. Not if you were to give a bunch of alochol to a girl/boyfriend to consume for the simple reason of getting them to sleep with you, that is where it becomes sin. It's not the action in drinking the alochol that was a sin but the motive or reason for consuming it that was sin. God does say not to get drunk on wine and this would be something that we should take into considerstion when wondering how far is to far. Our teacher drew us a picture:

If you were to place your clothing style, movies, music or favorite books into this diagram, where would it stand before God?

Why is it a sin? Because it falls bellow God's standards! God has standards for a reason. They are not just there to mae out lives miserable or because God doesn't want us to have fun. Heck no!! God made things for us to enjoy, IF we will listen and follow to the standards that has been made with our best intrest and safty in mind! God cares a WHOLE lot for us! When he says something He's not joking around, that's why there are consequences for our actions, our sin needs to be delt with.

Just something that's been on my mind that I thought I'd share!!