There is only one golden rule for spiritual discernment, and that is obedience. We learn more by five minutes obedience than by ten years study.
Oswald Chambers
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we dont give up. Galatians 6:9 NIV
If we dont give up. These words are key to accomplishing anything we set out to do. When I was young I remember myself as being very impatient. I still have some impatience in my life but not like it was in my younger days. I can remember dreaming up great plans of doing something and actually getting started on the project, but a short time into it losing interest and quitting. One example of this was when in 1964 after graduating from High School I decided to take a couple of college courses at night. How boring it was to me, and it took from my freedom of enjoying the evenings with my friends. After no more than a month, I quit. Four years later after my time in the Army and my experiences in Vietnam I went back to college, this time I had a little more stick to it and managed to get one year in. The next three years were spent sowing seed of youth in many self-centered ways, and then I returned to college for two years and received an Associates Degree. My intentions were to continue my education and get my Bachelors after a short time working. I never mad it back. Instead I became entangled in the grips of a progressive illness called alcoholism. I always set my goals way out ahead of myself so far, that what I did today would have no obvious affect on them, or so I thought. How wrong I was, quitting was never a decision I made upfront, it was a gradual process of changing my values a little each day. Today I have a different attitude in the recovery of my alcoholism than I did with the many goals that I set that I never accomplished. All I have to do is not give up today. Regardless of what happens on a daily basis, if I love and trust God and reach out in love to those that I may be of some service, than my day is successful. If I dont give up at the proper time I will reap a harvest. I might not be able to put what I harvest in my pocket, but it sure fits well into my heart. Thanks for letting me share, God is still doing for me what I could not do for myself ..JRE
And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:37-39 NASB
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The person who has the abundance of life Christ came to bring us can spend virtue lavishly because his resources are plentiful. He can care for people unreservedly, the people near him and all over the earth, people of his own creed, color, and nationality and those of other faiths, races, and nations, because his resources of care are attached to the limitless reservoirs of gods care.
He can afford to be slighted, shunned, hurt, because he has enough forgiveness in his heart for any crisis that comes his way. He can squander love upon the undeserving and the unresponsive because he knows there will always be more love where the last love came from. Harold E. Kohn
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Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now .the dark past is ..the key to life and happiness for others. Alcoholics Anonymous page 124
Oswald Chambers
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we dont give up. Galatians 6:9 NIV
If we dont give up. These words are key to accomplishing anything we set out to do. When I was young I remember myself as being very impatient. I still have some impatience in my life but not like it was in my younger days. I can remember dreaming up great plans of doing something and actually getting started on the project, but a short time into it losing interest and quitting. One example of this was when in 1964 after graduating from High School I decided to take a couple of college courses at night. How boring it was to me, and it took from my freedom of enjoying the evenings with my friends. After no more than a month, I quit. Four years later after my time in the Army and my experiences in Vietnam I went back to college, this time I had a little more stick to it and managed to get one year in. The next three years were spent sowing seed of youth in many self-centered ways, and then I returned to college for two years and received an Associates Degree. My intentions were to continue my education and get my Bachelors after a short time working. I never mad it back. Instead I became entangled in the grips of a progressive illness called alcoholism. I always set my goals way out ahead of myself so far, that what I did today would have no obvious affect on them, or so I thought. How wrong I was, quitting was never a decision I made upfront, it was a gradual process of changing my values a little each day. Today I have a different attitude in the recovery of my alcoholism than I did with the many goals that I set that I never accomplished. All I have to do is not give up today. Regardless of what happens on a daily basis, if I love and trust God and reach out in love to those that I may be of some service, than my day is successful. If I dont give up at the proper time I will reap a harvest. I might not be able to put what I harvest in my pocket, but it sure fits well into my heart. Thanks for letting me share, God is still doing for me what I could not do for myself ..JRE
And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:37-39 NASB
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The person who has the abundance of life Christ came to bring us can spend virtue lavishly because his resources are plentiful. He can care for people unreservedly, the people near him and all over the earth, people of his own creed, color, and nationality and those of other faiths, races, and nations, because his resources of care are attached to the limitless reservoirs of gods care.
He can afford to be slighted, shunned, hurt, because he has enough forgiveness in his heart for any crisis that comes his way. He can squander love upon the undeserving and the unresponsive because he knows there will always be more love where the last love came from. Harold E. Kohn
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Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now .the dark past is ..the key to life and happiness for others. Alcoholics Anonymous page 124
