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Is Reading Romance Novels, Watching Romance or Listening to Romantic Songs Good for us as Christian Teenagers and Youths?


 π‘π¨π¦πšπ§πœπž 𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐨?

Is reading romance novels, watching romance or listening to romantic songs good for us as Christian teenagers and youths?
Hm.

I had the opportunity to ask some people this question yesterday and their answers blew my mind. Hence the need to address it here. We might end up shaking some tables but I beg you to read til the end.

We all know what these things are; romance novels, romance movies and all. So I won't be giving definitions.
Let's go straight to the truth of the matter.

Read this slowly πŸ‘‡
The eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is CLEAR [spiritually perceptive, focused on God], your whole body also is full of LIGHT [benefiting from God’s precepts].
But when it is bad [spiritually blind], your body also is full of darkness [devoid of God’s word].
BE CAREFUL, therefore, that the light that is in you is not darkness. So if your whole body is illuminated, with no dark part, it will be entirely bright [with light], as when the lamp gives you light with its bright rays.”
Luke 11:34‭-‬36 AMP

The word of GodπŸ‘†. Not my words.

God's word says That Our eyes is the light of our whole body. When we read, watch, even when we listen, we use our eyes one way or the other. And the Bible reference above makes us understand that whatever our eyes takes in determines whether our whole body will Be In light or abrupt darkness.

So I'll ask us?
Is romance novel, movies, edifying in any way?
Is it a light? Or a stain? Or a mental pollutant?

I laughed when I heard someone mention specially to me that "if we don't read romance how do we then know how to do it when we get married?"

Please let me ask us; the knowledge of romance you feel like you need to acquire now, when does all the imaginations and unholy emotions that results from it starts?
Immediately you finish reading it I tell you!

I'm not here as a saint because I've read and written and published two romance novels. I had friends then that would read romance novels with over a thousand chapters and it was always like competition between us. Little did we know that we were filling the lamp of our life with uttermost darkness.

No wonder, we were always found being depressed about one thing or the other, no form of happiness. Then mental fornication, masturbation and unholy cravings for pre marital relationship sets in.
Hm.

𝑩𝑬 π‘ͺ𝑨𝑹𝑬𝑭𝑼𝑳, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 π’π’Šπ’ˆπ’‰π’• 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 π’Šπ’” π’Šπ’ π’šπ’π’– π’Šπ’” 𝒏𝒐𝒕 π’…π’‚π’“π’Œπ’π’†π’”π’”. (Luke 11:35)

Truly, it's so easy to watch series and series of romance movies without even noticing that time exists. It's so easy to read chapters and chapters of romance novels without getting bored out. But now we know the truth.

I ask you again. Please ask yourself. The romance you are reading, has it so far helped you to build strength against sin and temptations or it's even the tempter that reside in your thoughts?
Is romance novel, movies, edifying in any way?
Is it a light? Or a stain? Or a mental pollutant?

Truly, the eyes is the light of the whole body. And more to lose than to actually get by getting ourselves involved in romance.

I've got good news tho'.
No matter how far you've gone in romance and its nemesis. If God could save me from this pollutant, I know He can save you too.
Our God owns Mercy and forgiveness. He came for you who is sick of darkness. He died that you can access the Light, the Light in Christ Jesus.

The Holy Spirit can still dwell in you if you ask God to cleanse you. God will give you a pure mind and pure spirit if you ask for it.
Then, take a bold decision to change what you consume into your body. What you give your eyes; the lamp of your body.
You might ask me;
What then is the Light that I can consume to make my life full of His light?

John 1:1-5 tells us that The Word of God is God Himself. And Him is the real Light. The light that shine and evaporates every darkness. The Word of God is the Light we need to daily consume to fill our souls with the light of Christ.

So next time you encounter that romance novel, my friend, consider going for the Word of God, or any other book or movie that speak these words. The Word of God.

© Ofomola Sarah, 2023
Prayer:
Satanic enticement fashioned to put my glory in the dustbin, be frustrated, in the name of Jesus.
A loud AMEN!

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