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The Limit

By Ryan, March 17, 2008

I turned 18 two days ago. Now that I’m 18, there’s a lot more I can get away with legally. On the way home from a weekend in Oklahoma, I asked my mom if we could stop at the gas stations so I could buy cigarettes. I asked if we could stop at the casinos... because I can legally gamble now. You don’t want to know what I asked when we passed the adult video store. Now, being a Christian, I know that just because I’m legally allowed to smoke, gamble, and watch certain movies doesn’t mean it’s okay. Even though I was just pretending to “see what I could get away with,” there are many times that we really do push the limit.

Because I am a math geek, I feel compelled to illustrate with the graph of y=x^-1. Calculus nerds automatically look at this graph and see that there is a limit of 0 as x approaches ±∞. In other words, the line gets closer and closer to the x-axis and the y-axis, although it technically never touches. It gets infinitely close the farther you stretch the graph, but it will never intersect the lines x=0 or y=0.

This is sort of what we do. We get pretty close to all kinds of sin. I’ve seen people pretend to flip people off with their ring fingers. Some people make the word “shoot” sound like something else. And, in the halls before school one day, I even saw a guy touching his girlfriend really close to her “no-no square.” We can say that flipping the bird is only obscene if we use our middle fingers. We can tell people that we’ve never used the actual b-word after calling someone a “beeyotch.” And that guy I saw at school can say he’s never groped his girlfriend... or at least not while I was watching. But the truth is, when we do so much as flirt with the line between what’s accepted and what’s frowned upon, we’re still dishonoring God.

{ Posted 8:47 PM | E-Mail Post | Edit Post }

 Ryan:

So I found out today while watching TV that I was wrong about 18-year-olds being able to gamble. I guess that’s a pleasure I still have to wait 3 more years to enjoy.
And anyone who doesn’t quite understand the concept of tongue-in-cheek needs to lay off and not respond to this comment.

 Kristin P:

lol, Patience is a virtue... I have to learn all about that.

 Kristin P:

I admit yes, I have NO patience which is why I will never be a teacher, also cause I can't spell nor have grammer skills worth poo.

Justin I have a present for you, I think you might get a kick outta it. You have to think back to Mission Arlington XP XD hehehe

 Justin:

Thanks for bigbird Kristin, and awesome post Ryan. I know I left you no choice but to post when you got back, but man you really stepped up and showed "Christianity through teenagers eyes"!

 Kristin P:

I was going to give you bigbird for your b-day present as a joke, the same Bigbird as at Arlington, I told Kyndra and she and I bursted up laughing! *sigh* good times!!!

I agree with Justin! Dude, you totally rocked no joke!

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