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Many of us look back on our youth and acknowledge a few regrets here and there. Toni Braxton, the award winning R&B singer, also has a few regrets from her earlier years.
But her regrets are probably very different from yours….
While promoting the release of her 10th studio album in the fall of 2020, the famed singer sat down for an interview with The Guardian, a British newspaper. Braxton was asked how her “very religious” upbringing impacted her adolescence, and the singer gave an unusual answer.
“I regret not having more sex when I was younger. I should have drank more. I should have partied more. Smoked more, even. I think my religious upbringing stopped me doing a lot of things that I should have done. It’s not a good look at the age I am now. The way it works is you do that stuff in your 20s and 30s and then in your 40s you’ve earned enough to pay for the therapy.”
I’m confused. On one hand, Ms. Braxton believes more sex, more drinking, more smoking, and more partying would have given her a better adolescence…but on the other hand, she admits that those same actions would require expensive therapy later in life.
No doubt, the celebrity can afford the price of treatment, but can her soul afford the price of her sin?
Toni Braxton has her way of dealing with sin; the Bible recommends a completely different strategy: don’t. God’s Word says to avoid sin altogether. In fact, the writer of Psalm 119 even tells us how we can keep our lives pure and holy while we’re young.
How can a young person stay pure? By obeying your word and following its rules. (Psalm 119:9)
The more we live according to God’s Word, the less we’ll live with regret.
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