It's not really that I'm a "negative person"... I'm really not the miserable type. I enjoy a lot of interests in life, try to make the most out of it, try to stay forward thinking, try to move past rough experiences and on to the better.
Yes I do look at problems a lot, but I don't see that as a "negative" thing as some might. I don't believe it's psychological either, think it's partly due to whatever gifting from God- and focus comes out of that. Like my little one told me the other day
I guess since I've had kids I've been the one they've looked to, like bring it to mom, she can fix it. So that's how my mind works and applies to many things. So yes I enjoy problems, with the hope that they can (and should be) "fixed".
Part is the prophetic thing, problems are to be made aware for the hope of change, growth & betterment. Its why I like psychology- esp. abnormal psych. Ha one could mistakenly say it's something in my childhood- like I had to or wanted to fix my family or bad situatioins...
ah but God is good- it's also why I came to like and be good at fixing computers hardware & software problems (like help desk etc...) lol now I don't think one could connect that to a bad childhood.
It's just about how God made my mind to see things and work.
The mind sees the problem and then dissects it, pick it apart in order to find the answer why the problem is- before a solution can be chosen.
Then a solution can be prescribed- lol however the implemantation of that is a total other thing (and possibly gift).
People often complain about those who "see problems". Oh but do these people want answers? This is how many answers and solutions to problems come about- though backwards dismantling way.
I'm certainly not a gloomy one. Yes there are problems- but there is hope! With the existance of God & Jesus His Way, there is always hope.
I used to believe in "where there's a will there is a way". I don't beleive that anymore, but with God there is a way.
Some of my affliction is by choice, for as the Bible mentions in Ecc.- "laughter is in the house of fools, but the mind of the wise is in the house of mourning
." NASB
Being "simple", foolish, shallow, & self-centered comes easy to my flesh nature. The opposite I have to choose, I need to reach for, to remind myself, to break my attention from my distractions and turn myself to look at- to confront reality.
So i dunno I hope all these years through my writings I hope I haven't made it seem, hope it hasn't come across as if I am miserable and my life is only problems lol.
I write much more about these things, as a type of purging from my mind, a kind of working out on paper (lol screen) kind of like one would work out a division problem.
I've kept quieter about my happy, joyful, peaceful times, experiences. moments: 1. as in a way protecting them and 2. they don't need to be "worked out"...
I think if I tried not to be this way but to ignore the things "I see" (in the natural and in the spirtual)... I would cease to be "me" which is the me God created me to be.
I suppose if I went back to my unregenerate self some others might feel more confortable (at least around me) in one way but I think the "good" would be lost because of other things in me which would take over. And certainly I wouldn't be a "responsible productive member of society".
My mind would go back to (as Proverb describes) being a "mischevious person"- one who devises evil.
Oh thank God, now, I plan for good instead of evil.
However it sounds, experience & the Bible show this world\earth generally is an evil wretched place- but yet with good in it.
We cannot deny the evil that would be foolish & a lie... but we promote and encourage the good.
Within us the two cannot occupy the same space. We need to get rid of the evil and as we do there is more room for good.
I have learned though we cannnot do this on our own- we need Gods help. Not only His help to change, but also His help to get the truth to hear the truth to understand it as well as to apply it. We need Him because maybe we can forgive ourselves- but we need God's forgiveness & cleansing. We need Gods supernatural power-grace to go beyond ourselves, beyond our limitations.
Jesus said our righteousness has to exceed that of the Pharasees & Scribes. That is 1. His indwelling Holy Spirit gives us power to deny the flesh and yeild to obeying\keeping His commandments (which aren't just "the 10") and 2. it also includes the righteousness imputed to us through Jesus blood.
If one actualy looks at what Jesus & Paul said...it wasn't all warm, fuzzy and "peaceful". Some people want to turn the Bible, & or Jesus into their own remake. Ha there are two deceptions right there- those who claim the Bible isn't really saying what it says, and those who acknowledge what it says (or for the most part) but say it's bad that it says that.
Yes I do look at problems a lot, but I don't see that as a "negative" thing as some might. I don't believe it's psychological either, think it's partly due to whatever gifting from God- and focus comes out of that. Like my little one told me the other day
I guess since I've had kids I've been the one they've looked to, like bring it to mom, she can fix it. So that's how my mind works and applies to many things. So yes I enjoy problems, with the hope that they can (and should be) "fixed".
Part is the prophetic thing, problems are to be made aware for the hope of change, growth & betterment. Its why I like psychology- esp. abnormal psych. Ha one could mistakenly say it's something in my childhood- like I had to or wanted to fix my family or bad situatioins...
ah but God is good- it's also why I came to like and be good at fixing computers hardware & software problems (like help desk etc...) lol now I don't think one could connect that to a bad childhood.
It's just about how God made my mind to see things and work.
The mind sees the problem and then dissects it, pick it apart in order to find the answer why the problem is- before a solution can be chosen.
Then a solution can be prescribed- lol however the implemantation of that is a total other thing (and possibly gift).
People often complain about those who "see problems". Oh but do these people want answers? This is how many answers and solutions to problems come about- though backwards dismantling way.
I'm certainly not a gloomy one. Yes there are problems- but there is hope! With the existance of God & Jesus His Way, there is always hope.
I used to believe in "where there's a will there is a way". I don't beleive that anymore, but with God there is a way.
Some of my affliction is by choice, for as the Bible mentions in Ecc.- "laughter is in the house of fools, but the mind of the wise is in the house of mourning
." NASB
Being "simple", foolish, shallow, & self-centered comes easy to my flesh nature. The opposite I have to choose, I need to reach for, to remind myself, to break my attention from my distractions and turn myself to look at- to confront reality.
So i dunno I hope all these years through my writings I hope I haven't made it seem, hope it hasn't come across as if I am miserable and my life is only problems lol.
I write much more about these things, as a type of purging from my mind, a kind of working out on paper (lol screen) kind of like one would work out a division problem.
I've kept quieter about my happy, joyful, peaceful times, experiences. moments: 1. as in a way protecting them and 2. they don't need to be "worked out"...
I think if I tried not to be this way but to ignore the things "I see" (in the natural and in the spirtual)... I would cease to be "me" which is the me God created me to be.
I suppose if I went back to my unregenerate self some others might feel more confortable (at least around me) in one way but I think the "good" would be lost because of other things in me which would take over. And certainly I wouldn't be a "responsible productive member of society".
My mind would go back to (as Proverb describes) being a "mischevious person"- one who devises evil.
Oh thank God, now, I plan for good instead of evil.
However it sounds, experience & the Bible show this world\earth generally is an evil wretched place- but yet with good in it.
We cannot deny the evil that would be foolish & a lie... but we promote and encourage the good.
Within us the two cannot occupy the same space. We need to get rid of the evil and as we do there is more room for good.
I have learned though we cannnot do this on our own- we need Gods help. Not only His help to change, but also His help to get the truth to hear the truth to understand it as well as to apply it. We need Him because maybe we can forgive ourselves- but we need God's forgiveness & cleansing. We need Gods supernatural power-grace to go beyond ourselves, beyond our limitations.
Jesus said our righteousness has to exceed that of the Pharasees & Scribes. That is 1. His indwelling Holy Spirit gives us power to deny the flesh and yeild to obeying\keeping His commandments (which aren't just "the 10") and 2. it also includes the righteousness imputed to us through Jesus blood.
If one actualy looks at what Jesus & Paul said...it wasn't all warm, fuzzy and "peaceful". Some people want to turn the Bible, & or Jesus into their own remake. Ha there are two deceptions right there- those who claim the Bible isn't really saying what it says, and those who acknowledge what it says (or for the most part) but say it's bad that it says that.