In one of my classes, At the begginging of the year, We're asked to write down what the Lords telling us, And for the past three years, the same people say the same thing,
Deception, Comeing darkness, Evil, i mean i know that stuff is all out there, and that we can fall for it or into it, But i don’t think that’s all God has for this year.
i mean, Yes that is COMEING, but i don’t believe at all that’s what this year is ABOUT, i mean that’s sorta missing the point i think, YOU SEE a storm cloud coming and decide to base your month on that cloud, Forget just grabbing and umbrella and boots,
no, you decide to build a bunker, deep underground, with no contact to the outside world , No checking to see if THEY can prepare for storm, and there the ones who have no idea its even comeing. you completely miss the beauty of the storm, The calm BEFORE the storm, And the Awe inspiring aftermath of the storm
By being so afraid of what it COULD do, you wont be able to see what it DID do, ive seem to have gotten side tracked but who reads these anyways?? WHO CARES
I read all these things, here all these different views on who and what God is. But i just don’t know what is truth anymore..
For so long i was told you had to do this and that, and not this, If you think this way, Your no longer saved. But then i heard the message of Grace, and for a season everything clicked, it made sense, People say That the message of Grace is letting Christians get away with All sorts
of bad, But the message didn’t make them do it, its nothing they wouldn’t have done before, Grace gives you the ABILITY to not sin, To not focus on ourselves, But on Him, What he did for Us, Through him We have the ability to NOT sin, But to accept the righteousness That he gave his only son for.
People can so eagerly Believe, that Jesus took all our sins on the cross, So wouldn’t it make sense that WE took his righteousness?, He didn’t die for just our past sin..because WE WERN'T even around at the time, So he must have died for sins PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE, so we must be covered from those we will do and have done, but that doesn’t mean we go and SIN, that’s totally missing the point, WE NOW HAVE THE
ability to no longer sin. That’s the beauty its no longer in our own strength BUT in his, Because if Jesus, Holy spirit, TRUELY live inside of us then Sin should be no more , it is no more
Wouldn’t the whole point of him dying for ALL OUR SINS be so we don’t have to keep feeling sorry and pitiful, i mean how stupid is this? "Man I feel so good today, I haven’t lied in a week, No porn for
month, I’ve really cut back on cussing, I’m being so nice I’m sure God in all his pure awsomeness can use me for his benefit now!" – Isn’t that works?? trying to make it to heaven by works? And you know what else is a prevailing and repeated word through that statement, “I” “I” “I”.
Doesn’t the bible say our good deeds are as filthy rags before God??
SO WHY would things such as that matter, they lead to THIS
"Man.. I was doing so well, but.. I lied about stupid things, STUPID things that don’t even matter. I Started cussing with other people at work SO I don’t look prude, I really thought some nasty things about
that girl.... God could never use me...(two weeks later)
MAN oh man, I’ve been doing great I’ve totally cleaned up my act, IM so clean and sparkly now!! I bet God just cant WAIT for ME to get to church, I even took notes. IM SUCH A GOOD PERSON
NOT!!!
i know those are pretty lame examples, but its close to, at least for me, what my thought process used to be concerning me and God, But if Our righteousness and standing with God, Was based on works. i’m LONG GONE!!, But its not..i think. God forgives us and uses us REGARDLESS, he helps us overcome He needs Us to be willing, he helps us change and get the bad out, and him in, If you spend enough time with him he Will wash away all that needs to be washed away.
i’m not saying we throw caution to the wind and just do a bunch of of
stupid stuff, Its not a get of jail free card, we should live as examples of Jesus were not crazy people.(ehhh haha) But im saying idk im working on bettering my writing or expressing skills, Yes we fear God, Yes we obey him, But its through HIM and through HIS GRACE we do it, we dont have the power on our own, The old testament proves that, The law in the old testament did nothing but further bind, and push people away from God, ,
say, there were these people, and unless they stayed wet, they would die, So some people carried around water and just splashed themselves enough to get by, hour by hour ,day by day, Some people decided they would only leave their home when it was raining, So they could Enjoy the other world, but still stay comfortable, But other people didnt even want to feel dry,They just lived in the ocean,
or hmm
let me try again, that didn’t get my point across, God IS the water we live in to survive, To keep the dry off of us, its not like we get our fix and then struggle struggle struggle, then get our fix again, We should STAY in him, totally drowned.
Maybe this one will be a little better
There were these people who had to Stay wet to survive, But they must bath in this One certain lake to Be clean, Healthy, Happy, And fresh.
Not only did this lake keep them wet for a whole day, But it also Kept them healthy, Happy, And care free(just to really drive home the lake is GREAT)
Now some people, would just carry lake water around in jugs, and splash themselves on the parts that would start to hurt after awhile, Just enough to keep patching their way through life. Now Some people Felt compelled To try and stay totally clean Before Getting in the Lake water, They'd scrub themselves clean with their tap and bottled water, Before they'd even go near the lake, They had to be perfect in THEIR own eyes, Before they Felt , That they could truely be cleaned by the lake,(works, And law.) But Other people, Stayed totally immersed in the lake the never even got out of the lake. Never worried about drying out, or getting sick, Sure they could just have easily jumped out of the lake, Just as everyone else did, they could have gone and seen the world, But why? they have everything they could EVER want, and dont hafta worry about all the bad, Its not even a concern for them any more, There not clean by anything they've done, EXCEPT stay in the lake.
Idk if that really got my point across but im trying
Is God
The lion, The lamb, The baby, The warrior, The sacrafice, The king, The savior, The lover, The comforter,
Or all of them at once??
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