Will i ever be matured enough?


it all started with this question during dinner : "Mummy will you allow us to read harry potter again?"


at that..my mom luanched into a whole verbose about how she would not allow that book into her house. the reasons that she gave included things like its not good for christians to read such books thus she does not feel comfortable with us reading it..


i see the perspective that she is coming from and i do understand it in a sense. yet i still feel a tinge of indignance at it..in that she totally did not give a valid reason for continuing in her ban of harry potter books [yep..she stopped us from reading a few years back] i do not question the core reason on which she bases her arguement on - cos the material focuses alot on witchcraft and soccery. i know that it is wrong to dabble in such things and i do reject them..


"honour you father and mother..." Exodus 20:12a


argh..its really hard to do it! thus far..i have indeed honoured her wishes/orders in not touching those books. even when the 5th book was out about 2 years back and pple brought it to school. i just dun understand why doesn't she think that we are old enough to handle the material of the book? as my sister said " we are already 17 and 18 years old.."to be honest..i think that we are intellectually able to read the book and not get swayed by it. after all i have read all of the 4 dan brown books..what could be worst than that?


yet..can i be 100% sure that spiritually speaking i am able to withstand the material? these influences come in subtle and 'beautifully packaged' ways that we may not be able to detect yet they get a hold on us [thats wat my mom claims that she is so worried about]. i cannot guarantee that i will be unaffected by these books..neither can i assure myself and everyone around that i am grounded strongly enough in God's word.
perhaps it is wiser not to try?


will i even be matured enough?


"Everything is permissible—but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible—but not everything is constructive."
1 Corinthians 10:23