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So what's God been up to in your life lately?
Akira329:
--- Quote from: Arcturus on October 20, 2010, 01:09:58 PM ---Rom 12:19 not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord."
I wish I could do this! God has given me the desire to give place to wrath but not the accomplishment yet!! That is a huge gift to have the desire given from God, I realise yet look how tough the circumstances through which that gift is made visible!.... :'(
A Cop who fancies himself to be a Pastor and has tried to recruit my husband and I to his Cell group, got together to trap my helper in my shop. They sent a person to buy biltong who asked for an additional payment slip. My helper unwittingly gave him what he wanted. The Cop who has tried to recruit me to his Church, came to my shop to slander my helper telling me he was stealing. :o >:(
My helper had already informed me of the incident and so I called him out and told the Cop that what had happened was entrapment and slander. He said he was only trying to help me and I replied that God watches over me and that He provides. Why didn’t I just give place to wrath and smile sweetly!!!...and look right through him…God sent this experience to me and I have a hard time keeping quiet…well…as you know! I feel infuriated with the encounter of what I know God finds abominable
Pro 6:18 a heart that plots wicked plans, feet hurrying to run to evil,
Pro 6:19 a false witness who speaks lies, and he who causes fighting among brothers.
The Blessing is to endure and to make me depend even more on God……and God is giving me His Spirit to endure even as I feel the heat of God’s consuming fire in me! times can be hard right?...when we are doing our best and we don't know how....smiling when we are close to tears...and thankfully enduring the reciept of the gift from God to DESIRE to obey, believe and joy in that accomplishment only He can give!
I feel better already...poor Cop....I need to pray for him...
So what’s God been up to in your life lately?
Blessings
Arc
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A hard verse to accomplish indeed Deb!
Your not alone when it comes to struggling for its fulfillment in your life. I struggle too.
People will find it strange that when you react to situations like this according to the scriptures.
Thanks for sharing Deborah!
Antaiwan
Samson:
Hi Deborah,
Galatians. 5:22,23 " But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, LONGSUFFERING, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, SELF CONTROL, against such things there is no law." (Highlighted traits relate especially to Samson's training). By the way, where do you want me to begin, God's got plenty of Work to perform in Samson's spiritual character, ;D.
Romans. 12:(17-21) indeed, not necessarily returning "Evil for Evil," in action or words, but certainly in thoughts, the desire to take avenge, a struggle in ones thoughts, not having the patience to wait on God to right the wrong received is presently before me. Now, a current Life's example written in the next Paragraph.
Last July 2010, My Ex-Wife called to inform me that My oldest Daughter, She's almost twenty, will no longer be attending College and I should proceed to take steps to terminate the Child Support Order and have Her emancipated. I called the Family Division in order inquire about the necessary steps to be taken in order to proceed. I was told to either prepare a Consent Letter, to be signed by both parties, witnessed, sealed and signed by a Notary or File a Motion with the Court for Termination of said Order. I elected to present a consent Form, proceeded to do so and received a response that it was prepared wrong, etc. Each signature had to be notarized individually and separately. I explained that I wasn't told that and that I'm getting conflicting explanations on how to proceed. Eventually, I even took my Daughter down there with thorough identification, including Her Birth Certificate to have Her emancipate Herself, remember She's almost twenty, at eighteen a person is considered an Adult. They told me, it can't be done this way. So, they gave me a File a Motion Packet for me to fill out, etc, etc, etc. Finally, after figuring who gets copies of What, Who gets Copies Certified, the time frame, I finally filed this Motion this past Monday. Keep in mind, this Motion packet contains 12 pages, costs $30.00 to process, plus the cost of certified copies. Since July, I've actually had to take a break from this endeavor, due to the stress involved. Read, the bottom line in all of this below.
In the U.S. there's an epidemic of Men who don't pay their Child Support. They either end up in Jail, move away to States that are very lenient or move away, so as not to be found. I know of a Relative that owed over $100,000.00 in Child Support Arrears and a local jurisdiction told Him, He didn't have to pay anymore, because all the Children were over 30 years old. They told His Ex-Wife, to just get over it. Boy, do I despise Double Standards. Here I am, paying like I'm supposed all these years for Two Daughters(the others Sixteen) and I'm getting these games and all this grief from the Warren County Family Division. That's where Romans. 12:(17-21) enters the equation. To be honest, I ain't too thrilled with the instructions at Romans. 13:(1-5) either.
Now, I know that some of might respond with this: James. 1:2-4 " Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you meet with various trials, knowing as you do that this tested faith works out endurance, But let your endurance have it's work complete, that you may be complete and sound in all respects, not lacking in anything." Comment: Ain't no Joy when going through it, but only after the fact. None of us enjoy these trials while going through them, only after the fact. I guess that " A World dominated by Double Standards" is a World of learning Contrasts, the Good and the Evil. I'm a learning, but it ain't pleasant.
Great Thread Deb, Samson.
Deborah-Leigh:
I hear you! Tammy, Judy, Antaiwan (thanks for the encouragement) and Samson.
Yea, we have to go through it all. I think the goofiest things about it all is that for some stupid, pride filled error in thinking, it seems that we are the only one who is stupid, flawed and fragile when in fact everyone is. The difference is they are covering it up better than we can as we break apart and fall into that heap where there is no soul in sight to help out and Psalm 107 we cry to God….We have to go through THAT! We have to be the goliath and get our ballet right between our eyes with a name on only we can know before our own heads are cut off with our own swords! We have to be the least in the Kingdom and go through the doubts, the prison of our souls and then get our heads cut off so all our head knowledge is severed from our bodies….and then we leave earth on a pole with no arms legs nothing and we get to see the world through our dead eyes opened for the first time in jaw dropping amazement that has no voice box anymore. Our heads served up on a silver platter to a king who has given a harlot daughter her wish. It is a macabre, ghoulish, grizzly and chilling thing to be experiencing even a fraction of what Jesus Christ suffered. I don’t think there is one type of pain that is not and cannot be traced back to something our Lord endured, despised and suffered. That too is a stupid, pride filled error to think that pain is different from anything God has suffered first before us. God knows everything and you know what, it is easy to write it, but to believe it…that requires God to deliver when suffering becomes a source of rejoicing, realizing that any suffering we endure is not fit to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in those who are given to "endure to the end".
Blessings
Arc
Deborah-Leigh:
Back to you double, GodISGracious........
Blessings
Arc
grapehound:
Awesome thread Arc, and very timely. Thank you.
Totally identify with all replies, thanks guys.
Grape
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