When Chatting Becomes Sexting; Christians Beware!

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SEXTING is sending and receiving sexually explicit messages, primarily between mobile phones. (Source: Wikipedia).

This is twenty first century (I know you know), and chatting is just like drinking coffee. I mean chatting is an integral part of almost everyone now, you know, you get to talk with someone at about the rate of the speed of light, if I'm not mistaken (Pardon me, my Physics was quite poor). You know what I'm saying? It is so integral that my mom in her late forties chats like two-four-seven, as in, only God knows!

I guess I have established a point now right? We all chat, could be via Whatsapp, BBM, 2go, Eskimi, Facebook, Twitter, hey! the list is endless, and so on please, thank you.

Now to "SEXTING". Actually, I used to chat with different categories of people when I was in high school and I had no idea what sexting was all about. Then, after I got into college, I quit the serious chats for a while due to some academic and ethical reasons. However, I got back into chatting with people again, and I started to receive questions like "So, what are you wearing right now?" "What's the color of the panty you have on?" "Can you do this and that for me?"

Seriously!

Initially, I felt those guys were just perverse, but to my shock actually, I realized it had already become a norm. So I'm wondering, where did things go wrong, especially for "Christian" chatters? At some point, I started to block many of my contacts whom I couldn't just deal with. The internet has gone so gross, I know that, but should we as Christians become as gross too? Of course, no! The Bible says we are in the world but not of the world.

Colosians 4:6 NIV "Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone."
Ephesians 4:29 NIV "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen."
Philipians 1:27 KJV “Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel”.

So, my advice, let go of all those whom are likely to or who would engage you in a sex chat before it becomes too late for you. Let's be honest, those perverse people would only make you do something you are really gonna regret, and that would not in any way make God pleased with you either.

1 Corinthians 15:33 King James Bible "Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners."
1 Thessalonians 5:17 "Flee every appearances of evil".

And I do hope I have raised a really serious issue in the mind of somebody, Shalom.

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