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What are your foreign gods?
Sorin:
--- Quote from: prarrydog on July 07, 2006, 10:04:44 PM ---
Hi all4love,
It is very hard to admit these things. I am so glad that I started this thread however because it really put one thing in perspective for me. Nobody here is better than me and I am no better than anyone else. We are all in the same boat. We fight with the flesh......and we lose.....over and over and over again. I just cannot put into words how much I appreciate everyone's honesty. This is amazing. When I first started this thread I was very nervous. I figured a few might write in and say "Ya we'll pray for you prarrydog" and then I would be totally exposed to all my "perfect" brothers and sisters. I truly did not expect this kind of honesty. Thank you all for not hanging me out to dry ;D.
with love
Scott
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...Yeah, we'll pray for that miserable wretch over there...
;)
prarrydog:
;D ;D
orion77:
Bobby, you are doing great in keeping this thread alive. Wow, honesty and truth, a beautiful sight. Truth is Light and Light is Truth.
I, too have many thngs going on as of now. I had a good job at Ford Motor Co., worked night shift and fell asleep in my truck during lunch, this is the second time, and run them out of stock, being a forklift driver. This stopped the line for 20 mins., and they fired me. I worked there for 11 years. Never been fired from a job, and this being the highest paying job ever.
I, too smoke, and drink a few beers, but lately too many. My wife of 26 years is now ready to leave, so needless to say serious distress now, yet the strange thing is through all these hardships, I feel God even closer, stronger and truer. Know what I mean? Strange thing this life.
God bless all of you,
Gary
gmik:
Gary, you are in my prayers. Thanks for sharing.
MG:
Thank you for directing me here gmik. This thread is so refreshing.
One of the first things that happened to me when God started bringing me out of deception is that I looked at myself and saw my sinful nature. "Oh wretched man that I am" is very frightening at first. God was teaching me to rest in him and that the work in me was his work and not mine. I used to talk in my sleep about resting and struggled against trying to fix my sinful nature. I wanted to make myself good so I could be sure God would accept me. I came to realize that there is no good thing in me and I couldn't fix that.
I am guilty of grumbling and unbelief. My heart has waxed cold and where I should have so much gratitude I have grumbling. I walk in fear and worry instead of faith. God has never failed me, but it seems like a life time that I have been in this desert place. I fear that God has left me here to die. My false god would be symbolic Egypt I guess. At least there I had the hope of a promised land. I am wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I am dull of hearing. I do believe. God help me with my unbelief.
I smoke too, but that just doesn't seem real important right now with everything else that's going on, lol.
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