When the Cat's Away Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: When the Cat's Away-------------------------------- Date: 3/17/2001 Keywords: "cares" "father" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Malachi 2:10* Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our fathers by breaking faith with one another? Questions 1. Who is the one Father mentioned in today's verse?   2. How can knowing this help you face temptation?   Practical help One of the things we learn rather early in life is that when the cat's (Dad or Mom) away we, as mice, can play. Sadly, though, we also learn that some things look like fun but aren't worth playing with. Things like pornography. For some of us, when Dad's not around we act "fatherless" and start thinking no one really cares whether I resist this next temptation. Maybe we say to ourselves, "I've failed to resist enough times to see that even I don't care." It might be easy to think yourself "orphaned" when your earthly father (or mother) isn't physically around, but do you know that your heavenly Father is always there? He's one cat that's never away. That's not to say he doesn't want you to have any fun. That's to say he's there caring about what you choose to have fun with. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2001 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.