Grass Seed (Photo credit: public-sector-lists.com | gov audience delivery)

I remember how I was so easily manipulated into sin when I was young.  I knew a man who was encased in every form of evil a man might think of.  And I remember how I was shamed into participating by simple words.  He would refer to me as  “hay seed”.  And I was ashamed that I didn’t have the “man-up” to do what he did.  So I chased after the same things for years.

You might think of me as a lesser man for doing such things.  And I would readily agree.  But there is a sort of “man-up” happening all day long that never gets any notice.  It doesn’t have much to do with drugs, sexual immorality, or theft and such.  It has much more to do with ignorance regarding the things of God.  Are you being threatened with words like “man-up” and “hay seed”?  Are you threatened because you don’t revel in the same flood of dissipation as the world around you?