Daytime Living Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Daytime Living -------------------------------------------- Date: 8/31/2000 Keywords: "integrity" "punishment" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Romans 13:13* Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. Questions 1. How open are you about your struggles with pornography?   2. What behavior does this passage commend?   Practical help Lightning caused the New York City blackout of 1977. Human depravity caused the looting that followed. While the NYPD primarily policed crimes against persons, Gotham residents robbed at will, typically preferring appliances to food. How we act when the threat of punishment is lifted shows who we really are. That's why our stand against pornography matters most when no one can monitor our successes or failures. Paul calls this behaving decently, "as in the daytime." We might simply call it integrity. Put another way, we should behave as if God watches over us at every moment. Not only because it shows character, but also because he actually does. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2000 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.