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rick:
Its amazing to me how everything I learned here is quite the opposite from everything I learned from Christendom.

In Christendom I was lead to believe that everything is up to me as far as salvation, I was told God sends no one to hell but we send ourselves there by rejecting Christ or simply by sinning.

In Christendom I always felt like a failure, I was always pretending to be ok hoping I would somehow be able to stop sinning but lacked the ability. For years I was devastated inwardly and full of  fear at the thought of the after life because of a false belief system I was taught.

Today my understanding has been enlighten to more truth than my entire life through B.T. however there are many things I don’t know or understand. I learned to look at people differently as a result of God’s truth that I’ve learned and have been totally blessed with.

I don’t believe the things in my life have change as a result of a more accurate knowledge of God’s truths in my life but I understand how I was made, why I sin and what God’s plans are for His creation.

My understanding today has taken me from a scary God to a loving God, perhaps in the end I’ll discover that being a failure is the very thing God wanted me to see and understand.

Surely God rules in the affairs of man and women alike and no one directs their own footsteps in this life, everything is by the grace of God.

Learning complete dependency most likely takes a lifetime, maybe another age. Trying to live a righteous life is impossible , I have failed most utterly and that is what God wants me to know an so I tarry on in this life knowing God is the only good thing in this universe and everything else is simply a failure.

I know the time will come when the goodness of God will see that His entire creation will live in perfect harmony and righteousness and until then the entire creation moans in expectation of that Grand and beautiful day when all things are made new.

And like the thief on the cross, all I can say is remember me when I enter your kingdom Lord.  :)

lilitalienboi16:
Preach it brotha rick! Joyful news to this hungry soul!

Mike Gagne:
Hi Rick! I just thought I could add that none of what we see in the natural is a failure! Gods plan for his family is a perfect plan that will be completed perfectly! We are not failures but rather works in progress! Nothing is out of order even though it looks like that! Anyhow thanks for letting me share!.... Mike :)

rick:
Hi mike,

The failure I’m referring to is the belief we human being think we can control, modify or change our lives and this is not so, your right when you say God’s plan is perfect and that we are a work in progress.

If there is anything in my life I cannot change agreeing that I want to change whatever it may be then I have failed myself in that respect.

The only change possible is the change God brings not the changes I want to bring or see. I only have the idea of what is righteous and good and the longing for such things.

The thing to see here is that the only good things that we have comes from above and the rest is our carnal nature and it’s this carnal nature we cannot control at will except by the grace of God or we remain the same.

In God’s plan there is no potential for failure and all is going accordingly as He dictates and the only things that can be are those things which God declares from the beginning to the end.

Once I thought I had the ability of free will and choice only to discover my will is subjected to God’s will and when God says to stop whatever it is then and only then will one stop.

I’m referring to the complete sovereignty of God and my complete failure as man. God rules with complete authority, there is no authority greater than that of our heavenly Father.

God’s will trumps all and for this fact I’m most thankful for as there is no way in heaven or earth I can screw it up and neither can anyone else, it’s impossible.  :)

theophilus:
Hello Rick,

the state of total failure that you speak of might be that state spoken of in Jeremiah 18:4

4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

This is how we start out in life, right? As a vessel marred in the Potter's hand. So, He makes us again another vessel as He sees fit, not as WE see fit. His making again another vessel out of each one of us is our lifetime experiences, both good and evil. We are being molded each day of our lives. Our failures in life are temporary shapes the Potter is giving us. He will keep working the clay until it takes the shape of the Holy Son of God. So I think.  :)

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