Society says as young people we are lazy, naive, rebellious, and followers not leaders. The world does not expect much from us as young people and that has transferred over to the church. We are told we need to follow other's examples not be the examples. The bible has very different things to say, and I'm hoping as a young christian myself at 22 years old I can help other young Christians strive to be leaders not followers, to be servants not those who are served, to find worth in God's eyes not the world's eyes. 1 Timothy 4: 12 says, "Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity."
About me: My name is Caleb I am 22 years old and I recently graduated from Pepperdine University. I am not a young person who has been rejected by society so I am lashing out, quite the opposite. I found myself in college to be a part of the world, I drank, I partied, I went on spring break trips to Mexico, I was in a fraternity, I even modeled professionally in LA for a while. What I realized is that some where along the way I had succumbed to the World's expectations of what a college student should be and put God on the back burner. My mind set was that I had time to be a good Christian and an example when I was older, I realize now that there's no better time to serve God and be an example then the now. I have rededicated my life to Christ and helping young people do the same. I am a pseudo college intern at my church and can't wait to see the way God will challenge me.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Okay I will preface this by saying I asked myself the same question in college, owned a hookah, and smoked it a lot. I will ask you this, do you honestly think you are bringing glory to God by doing it?
In 1 Corinthians 10 Paul says, “Looking at it one way, you could say, “Anything goes. Because of God’s immense generosity and grace, we don’t have to dissect and scrutinize every action to see if it will pass muster.” But the point is not to just get by. We want to live well, but our foremost efforts should be to help others live well.”
I would have to say hookah is one of those things that’s not beneficial in anyway. From experience the environment alone is not conducive to a Christian lifestyle, and it’s definitely not good for health, I legit researched it on medical websites and it’s been proven to be worse than cigarettes. Another point I’d bring up is that it’s one of those issues that if a Christian saw you doing it, it would probably cause them to stumble. Paul says eating meat sacrificed to idols is okay, but if it causes someone to stumble we shouldn’t do it, basically the same situation here.
I am not telling you it’s a sin but I definitely wouldn’t recommend it or says it is of any benefit to you.
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so-surreality said:
Beautiful answer! Stay blessed!
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