A Need To Process Our Experiences

[dallasapple]

TW,

Thank you.


I think I get glimpses of this. Its a feeling of fullness.In your mind ,body,and heart. And so it spills out of you.You arent rooting around.Its the opposite.The opposite of hunger.

For me it only last a micro-second.But I understand.I think.

Blessings

Dallas



OOPS I meant to quote this.


And that's my point... he did it so that he could be what God called him to be. First things first... his first priority was to submit to God's will in ALL things. If he had been doing it from the flesh, and his motivations had been self-centered, he would have been sinning. Our jobs are not a means to an end... for the one who wants to follow God intimately and daily, they are only our current assignment. God is the one who provides for us. Jesus made it perfectly clear not to worry about tomorrow... or be concerned with material gain. As his disciples, he wants us to walk in faith, trusting him to open doors when and where he leads us. If we are following him and working in service to him without undue concern for our own gain, then we will grow into all that he has called us to be. As Paul said, "I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want." - and - "Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." I think too often we lose sight of that and make the focus of much of our lives about taking care of ourselves

 

[Joyandpeace]

Let me say it differently.
Anything with an eternal purpose (Him) is good.
Anything else will be burned up.
But not because it is sin (necessarily).
But because it was useless for eternal gain and purpose.
So is it pointless to do/think things that are not about Him?
Yes, probably so - but I don't think that makes it sin necessarily.

 

[dallasapple]

And that's my point... he did it so that he could be what God called him to be. First things first... his first priority was to submit to God's will in ALL things. If he had been doing it from the flesh, and his motivations had been self-centered, he would have been sinning. Our jobs are not a means to an end... for the one who wants to follow God intimately and daily, they are only our current assignment. God is the one who provides for us. Jesus made it perfectly clear not to worry about tomorrow... or be concerned with material gain. As his disciples, he wants us to walk in faith, trusting him to open doors when and where he leads us. If we are following him and working in service to him without undue concern for our own gain, then we will grow into all that he has called us to be. As Paul said, "I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want." - and - "Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." I think too often we lose sight of that and make the focus of much of our lives about taking care of ourselves.

Let me say it differently.
Anything with an eternal purpose (Him) is good.
Anything else will be burned up.
But not because it is sin (necessarily).
But because it was useless for eternal gain and purpose.
So is it pointless to do/think things that are not about Him?
Yes, probably so - but I don't think that makes it sin necessarily.

I see..

Kind a like extra calories! LOL!

Like we dont need chocolate pie? But its good and its not a sin?

Hello can you say blueberry delight!????


May I have a bowl please?


Blessings

Dallas

 

[dallasapple]

Also I think that plays into our uniqueness.

We are not perfect. We are not drones.(I have repeatedly asked for a labotomy they wont give it).

So we have spice! If we can make that nice then hey you know the rest.......


Blessings

Dallas

 

[TenderWarrior1]

Let me say it differently.
Anything with an eternal purpose (Him) is good.
Anything else will be burned up.
But not because it is sin (necessarily).
But because it was useless for eternal gain and purpose.
So is it pointless to do/think things that are not about Him?
Yes, probably so - but I don't think that makes it sin necessarily.

I believe there are plenty of examples in the Word that show how God is a jealous God and is not pleased when we allow anything to become more important to us than Him or His desire for us. It's called idolatry.

But honestly, the sin wasn't really the focus of the my earlier statement - God's desire for us to become everything He designed us to be was. I'm not into sin management. I'm into pursuing the heart of God. I believe we stand covered by the blood of Christ and our sins are forgiven... even those sins we may or may not be aware of.

What is more important to me is that while I am still in this realm, my greatest desire be to submit to my Father - beyond all self-interest. All this world has to offer are substitutes intended to steal our hearts and distract us from walking in the spirit and being one with our Father.

 

[TenderWarrior1]

TW,

Thank you.


I think I get glimpses of this. Its a feeling of fullness.In your mind ,body,and heart. And so it spills out of you.You arent rooting around.Its the opposite.The opposite of hunger.

For me it only last a micro-second.But I understand.I think.

Blessings

Dallas

One micro-second at a time. It's a journey Dallas.

 

[Starr SDA Living Word]

Hello all, How's everyone here tonight?

 

[Starr SDA Living Word]

Yeah it looks like the whole family is here. Praise God.

 

[HappyArmyWife]

Yeah it looks like the whole family is here. Praise God.

Hello Starr

How are you and your family doing?

 

[Starr SDA Living Word]

Hello Starr

How are you and your family doing?

We all doing alot better, Praise God. We had a really hard 2 and half weeks. JOn is fully healed, my daughter I thought the same, but yesterday some symptoms have returned, so praying again for her, she isn't as bad as be4 though, Praise God. Not eating again.

I am doing awesome A week with out pain, I had a headache for a couple of days, but nothing to write about, pain I could bare. Praise God. He took it from me, I believe.

 

[Starr SDA Living Word]

Now I am comfy.

 

[blessedwoman]

Just had about a 3 hour nap on the sofa....how's everyone doing??

 

[blessedwoman]

Awfully quiet for all of you all to be hangin' out here!

Headed to bed to sleep this time! Good night!

 

[Joyandpeace]

But honestly, the sin wasn't really the focus of the my earlier statement - God's desire for us to become everything He designed us to be was.

Oh! - well I'm in agreement with this part of your statement. It is the sin part of your statement that I questioned!

 

[Joyandpeace]

My neighbor's fence line comes up very close to my bedroom window. I don't know my neighbors except to say hi. In the past five years I've left a couple of notes on the door the day AFTER their dog barked all night. I was polite - just asking them to please not let that happen again. They have tried to curtail his barking at night by keeping him inside.

It is 3:00 am and their huge boxer has been barking and barking - in my ear (or so it feels). I just put my robe on and walked over and rang their doorbell. No one home. I did reverse address look up and left a voicemail.

GOOD GRIEF! And I so wanted a good night's rest tonight. Going to go sleep on the couch now.

 

[ChrisCountryGirl]

Good Morning everyone!!!

 

[JC4Dude]

To me this sounds like if I am not consciously pursuing who God made me to be then I am sinning.

I am here and work and just doing what I need to do to get the job done - I'm not thinking of pursuing who God made me to be as I do this day to day stuff - is that sinning?

J&P I agree there are time of just doing and being which aren't 100% for eternal purposes.

 

[TenderWarrior1]

Oh! - well I'm in agreement with this part of your statement. It is the sin part of your statement that I questioned!

Consider the following:

Haggai 1:1-11

1 In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest:

2 "The Lord of Hosts says this: These people say: The time has not come for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt."

3 The word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet:

4 "Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?"

5 Now, the Lord of Hosts says this: "Think carefully about your ways:

6 You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough to be satisfied. You drink but never have enough to become drunk. You put on clothes but never have enough to get warm. The wage earner [puts his] wages into a bag with a hole in it."

7 The Lord of Hosts says this: "Think carefully about your ways.

8 Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house. Then I will be pleased with it and be glorified," says the Lord.

9 "You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought [the harvest] to your house, I ruined it. Why?" [This is] the declaration of the Lord of Hosts. "Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

10 So on your account, the skies have withheld the dew and the land its crops.

11 I have summoned a drought on the fields and the hills, on the grain, new wine, olive oil, and whatever the ground yields, on the people and animals, and on all that your hands produce."

For twelve years the people of Israel had neglected building God’s temple while they focused on their own needs. Here’s the question to us today... where do we personally put God and His work in our life? Is it central or a sidebar? It’s about priorities.

It’s interesting in the passage above that the people had been discouraged, disinterested and disappointed. They had pulled back from doing what God had said... and you know what? They were real spiritual about it. They had good doctrine and they blamed it on the Lord. They said... “Well the time hasn’t come yet to build the temple.” Isn’t that interesting? Doesn’t that sound spiritual? It’s all in the Lords time… the Lord has that in His hands... the Lord has that all under control.

They had taken a self-serving choice and didn’t have the guts and integrity to acknowledge that it WAS a self serving choice. They “theologized” their lack of progress in the spiritual realm and said it’s not God’s time yet.

How ‘bout if God comes and sits down and has a talk with us and asks us about our spiritual life... about what He’s building in us. What would our answer be? What if God asks us about our priorities and where we are putting our energy and what we’re investing in the Kingdom? What would our answer be?

“Well, you know, I pray, but it just doesn’t seem to be working so it must not be the Lord’s time. Revival would be nice... and it sure would be cool to see God moving, but, a guys got to live you know... the interest rates are low... it’s time to fix up the house.”

Are we neglecting God’s house? God’s place... God’s worship... God’s honor in our life and shoving it down on our priority list. You know what? God will not be a number on our priority list... even if it’s number one. He IS the list. There’s only one item on the list and it’s HIM. We don’t get just a “little bit of God” on our list. God isn’t something we get to try out... He’s the God of the universe! We surrender our life to Him and we build our life around Him. So our relationship with God is not a part of our life... it’s everything! And within that context our relationship with our family has meaning and takes it’s place. Our work takes it’s place. The things that we do take their place. Ministry takes it’s place. Everything falls into place because He’s everything. And so, when we’re arranging our lives they are to be built around and in and for Him. He is to permeate everything that we do.

“In Him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17:28)

Here’s an important point. The process of figuring out how God permeates our lives is called discipleship. We learn to live in this process and grow. And this concept and process is so vital because it keeps us from the tendency we have to compartmentalize our lives. Home life. Spiritual life. Work life. Recreational life. And for each of these we have a different face. Church face. Work Face. Home Face. Etc. Of course different things are required of us at different places in our life, but we are to be the same person everywhere... at all times.

God WEAVING us with Him to live our lives to the full.

 

[JPPT1974]

The biggest revival will take place
Once Jesus comes and gets us all
When He takes us up to heaven
On that very special day!

 

[dallasapple]

You know what has been helping me a lot.If I can remember to simply ask myself would I be acting this way,saying such things,doing or not doing what I am if Jesus was standing in front of me looking straigh at me?

Then I remember He is.

Blessings

Dallas