Actions Have Consequences

Imagine you are a very good athlete and someone offers you a bribe if you will not play up to your best and thereby throw the game. Would you do it? Think about it, there is a result. Doing so you will have a life-time of emotions ranging in sadness, grief, loss, guilt, shame, anger, and lifelong regrets.

Would you do it?

Suppose you are in finance and a friend has devised a scheme whereby you can skim big money and get away with it. Would you do it? Oh, by the way though you won’t get caught you will have a life-time of emotions ranging in sadness, grief, loss, guilt, shame, anger, and lifelong regrets.

Would you do it?

Imagine you are in a business that deals with food products. You have just discovered a way you can dilute certain products that would reduce their quality and make you a large profit. It’s easy and not likely to ever be detected. It will enable you to get out of debt and make money. Would you do it? There is one thing you need to know. You will have a life-time of emotions ranging in sadness, grief, loss, guilt, shame, anger, and lifelong regrets. 

Would you do it?

Suppose you are a lovely young unwed adult female. Here is where the plot thickens. You are pregnant. You can get a abortion and no one will know. Would you do it? Before deciding, be aware you will have a lifetime of emotions ranging in sadness, grief, loss, guilt, shame, anger, and lifelong regrets.

If you could avoid giving birth while single, would you do it? I don’t mean an abortion. Here is how.

A lovely highschool teenage girl visited me in my office. It was her senior year and she had garnered almost every award and title there was. She sobbed out her story of being pregnant and then said, “I don’t know why I did it.” In conciliatory tones I said, “I know why.” 

Abruptly in sharp tones she snapped back a harsh, “Why?” I said, “Because of the things you read, the movies you watched, the stories you listened to, the social media you viewed, and the people you hung-out with, you made up the decision to do it before you did it and subconsciously you have just been looking for the right opportunity to do it.”

With tones of regret she said, “You are right.”

Avoid those things and you are highly unlikely to live with a lifetime of emotions ranging in sadness, grief, loss, guilt, shame, anger, and lifelong regrets.

“All these evil things come from within and defile a person.” (Mark 7: 23 CSB)

The process is defined by the computer axiom GIGO. What “Goes in Goes Out.” Stop it before it starts by programming the mind with virtuous thoughts. Virtue, now there is a thought for you.

Whatever became of the “True Love Waits” concept. It reduced pregnancies. Critics still write of it negatively, but when not taken to extremes it worked. Try it individually in all of life, males, and females.