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A Weak Man
aqrinc:
Antaiwan,
I want to say things in my own words, but no, let The Scriptures below show you and me and everyone else. What Is, and Why It Is So; in the world today.
Isa 53: 3-7 (CLV)
3 Despised is He, and shunned by men, a man of pains and knowing illness. And, as One concealing His face from us, despised is He, and we judge Him of no account."
4 Surely our illnesses has He borne, and our pains--He was burdened with them. Yet we account Him touched, smitten by the Elohim and humbled."
5 Yet He was wounded because of our transgressions, and crushed because of our depravities. The discipline for our welfare was on Him, and by His welts there is healing for us."
6 All of us, as a flockling, have strayed; each man to his own way, we face, yet Yahweh, in Him, intercedes because of all our depravity."
7 Hard pressed is He and being humbled, yet He is not opening His mouth. As a flockling to slaughter is He fetched, and as a ewe before her shearers is mute, so He is not opening His mouth."
2Co 10:7 (CLV)
Are you looking at that on the surface? If anyone is presuming to have confidence in himself to be Christ's, let him be reckoning this again with himself, that, according as he is Christ's, thus also are we. "
1Jn 4:17 (CLV)
In this is love perfected with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judging, seeing that, according as He is, so are we also in this world."
george. :)
mharrell08:
FYI: http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,8686.0.html
Marques
aqrinc:
--- Quote from: mharrell08 on June 09, 2009, 03:51:55 PM ---FYI: http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,8686.0.html
Marques
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Very good catch Marques.
george ;D.
Ninny:
I remember that discussion..beautiful thread guys!
Kathy :)
rockrdude:
Antaiwan,
I am another weak man. My life feels like one long series of trials, and the more God teaches me and leads me where He wants me to go, the worse life seems to get.
And yet.. I wouldn't go back for anything. I know this is just part of the purging and cleansing all will go through.. now.. or later. I'd rather get this done now.
I see so many sins that used to take me out no longer do. In many areas of life, I am so much stronger. And yet, I am constantly made weak. There is apparently strength in this weakness. Sometimes I am too weak to notice it, but I know it is there.
My problem is finding joy in my trials. When my eyes can barely stay open from exhaustion and sleep evades me, when I can do nothing right in the eyes of my family, when my friends keep their distance, when my relatives have little or nothing to do with me, when I don't have any money for the things I need for my family, when unemployment rears its ugly head, when the weight doesn't come off even when I eat right, when my children are embarrassed of my appearance or the way I raised them, when my relatives ignore my children while lauding praise and gifts on other relatives, I always have to remind myself that Jesus said it would be this way. He wasn't kidding. We really will be hated, He really did come with a sword to divide, but He really is with us in the fire.
I am the biggest screw-up I know. I do not know how long these trials will last. I must learn to find the joy and delight in them, but this flesh suit I'm wearing seems to have other plans.
At least there is comfort in knowing that someday, these trials will come to an end. It will all be worth it! It will be this way for you as well. You'll see!
The words "Well done, thou good and faithful servant" do give me MUCH hope. I hope to hear them someday. My goal is to be an overcomer, and apparently I have much to overcome.
This time on God's potter's wheel is no fun, and it is filled with so much pressure. But, God is creating something beautiful in His image. He is doing this with me, and He is doing this with you.
For sure.. You are not alone. To quote Red Green, "We're all in this together". :)
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