Comments on: Peer pressure? http://blog.wrccc.com/?p=838 Thoughts from the Leadership of West Ridge as we journey through Scripture. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:04:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Bethany Mossburg http://blog.wrccc.com/?p=838&cpage=1#comment-42 Bethany Mossburg Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:31:30 +0000 http://blog.wrccc.com/?p=838#comment-42 The fact of the matter is, we will always have within us the choice. We choose to follow along; we choose to give in to the direction that others are going. Samuel was an amazing guy, and we're going to read more tomorrow regarding the plans that God had laid before his feet. I do wonder though, regarding the specific matter of peer pressure and devotion to God's path over the path of our own choosing (or in this case, the path of others), whether or not his mom's devotion to God-her understanding of stewardship and her commitment to the words she spoke to the LORD regarding that...if they had any sway over the way Samuel viewed his purpose in that temple. If indeed she went back each year, would she have reminded him that he was called to a higher purpose, that God had made a way for him to come into being in the world and that wasting time away from Truth wasn't his destiny? It does make one wonder...hmm... Good post, Chris. The fact of the matter is, we will always have within us the choice. We choose to follow along; we choose to give in to the direction that others are going. Samuel was an amazing guy, and we’re going to read more tomorrow regarding the plans that God had laid before his feet.

I do wonder though, regarding the specific matter of peer pressure and devotion to God’s path over the path of our own choosing (or in this case, the path of others), whether or not his mom’s devotion to God-her understanding of stewardship and her commitment to the words she spoke to the LORD regarding that…if they had any sway over the way Samuel viewed his purpose in that temple. If indeed she went back each year, would she have reminded him that he was called to a higher purpose, that God had made a way for him to come into being in the world and that wasting time away from Truth wasn’t his destiny?

It does make one wonder…hmm… Good post, Chris.

]]>