Moving & Heroes

The great thing about being the last person to move out is that you get all these new toys (i.e. items left behind) from the other roommates. The obvious con to all this is that you have to clean up their mess too.

If you're in a need for a hero or a role-model in your life, what better place than the Old Testament of the Bible? Sure, many were flawed, none perfect... But perhaps it's their foibles that allows us to connect with them. In that vein, perhaps that's why the Incarnation of Christ is such a vital aspect of the Christian faith, that Jesus was both fully God and fully human: "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin" (Hebrews 4:15). Desiring God expounds on this a bit more.

Anyway... I just had a random thought today about Joseph and how he resisted Potiphar's wife's seduction. I assume since Potiphar was a captain of the guard, he probably had a really physically attractive wife (successful men usually do). To resist that temptation to have an affair with her, Joseph had to have had a ton of self-discipline (as well as the overlying protection by God throughout Joseph's whole life). While thinking about that story, I had to ask myself, would I have had the will to stop myself from caving into that temptation? The Lord was with Joseph, and I sure hope He is with me as well as I continue on this road that He has set before me in career & singledom (at least for the time being).