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Judgement In This Age?

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octoberose:
I have spent a lot of time - a lot of useless time - supposing how things could have been different in my life or the lives of my children .  I’ll  day dream and get caught up in a fantasy land of the turn I took or didn’t take, the decisions I made I wish I could take back, the words I wish I could take back. It’s taken a long time for me to stop myself and say ,” Stop trying to second guess God! Stop arguing with Him over the darkness and head into the light ! Ask forgiveness when needed and go on !     This for me is God’s judgements now in this life .

Prune Soleiado:
Ray said that, by the Grace of God, we know Something that dead people can't know. This secret that is Christ in us:
"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I HAVE LEARNED the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want."(Philippians 4:12)
"The glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." (Colossians 1:27)
It helps us Walking in the vissicitudes of this present life of apprenticeship. We have to accept Walking on the narrow way, in the heart of the earth, in the darkness, as hard as it is, we have this secret, this hope in our hearts. Because we beg for wisdom and love and holiness, even though we remain bogged down in a tortuous world.
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." (Matt 7:7) We know and Believe this Word of God.
"And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:19)
So we keep on Walking in the darkness, but guided by Christ, our Light, our life, our Lord, our Love. Wishing to be alone with Him, no one around to separate us from Him. But are we not to testify to the same tortuous world about the depth and the width of God's Love? It makes me think of Paul in Philippians 1:"19 for I know that through your prayers and God’s provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance. 20 I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. 21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. 22 If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! 23 I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; 24 but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body. 25 Convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and I will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith, 26 so that through my being with you again your boasting in Christ Jesus will abound on account of me."
Romans 7:13"in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become UTTERLY sinful." And right before this Paul says in Romans 7:9 "when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died." We learn. We grow up in spirit in the middle of the night.

Heidi:
In John  8:12 we read, "When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

I believe that we used to walk in darkness, but no more because we now have the light of life.  Darkness stops for us, those who are in Christ.

Heidi

Prune Soleiado:
We wouldn't need a light if we were not surrounded by the darkness of this world, we would know in advance and see all the obstacles that await us on our way.
The difference is that we Don't belong no more to this darkness, we belong to Our Father of Light. We Don't want to hide in this darkness, we want to be revealed in Christ.
My eyes are opened for God allows me by His Grace to keep on Learning about His Love for all of us. But I still can't uncover all the shadows that remain about the future, about my true self as God's child, I Don't have this certainty to walk in a total full Light, for my heart yet darkens a big part of those truths. The race is not finished, I have this feeling I am really far from its end.
But I want to feel and realize every step of the processing if it can help others around me to question and Wonder about my God and Father. Like: "How come she smiles when I would cry out loud and give up if I was in her position?". Like Job's wife couseling him to give up his faith rather than keep on glorifying God. Who do I want to please?
God be gloryfied, whatever happens. Because what's important is not what is happening to me but how I react to the bad and even the good circumstances. Humility, Patience, Love...sometimes I miss it completely and panic on board of my small boat, or I sometimes almost go short of swellin of pride for knowing so little about God's Plan.
Jesus is hope, this Light is hope, because even though we Don't how we can keep on Walking, as by God's Grace our feet are "fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace" (Ephesians 6;15), we know for sure how the Journey will end: God will be all in all, and this enlighten the darkest nights in which from time to time my heart can be tempted to plunge. I Don't want to fall asleep, anyway, if possible, I couldn't, because the light of Jesus dazzles me, illuminates the night around me, then changes me entirely, no point of return, by God's Grace and God's omnipotence. He keeps on saving us. Amen.

Heidi:
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Re: Judgement In This Age?
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We wouldn't need a light if we were not surrounded by the darkness of this world, we would know in advance and see all the obstacles that await us on our way.
The difference is that we Don't belong no more to this darkness, we belong to Our Father of Light. We Don't want to hide in this darkness, we want to be revealed in Christ

Although we are still in this world we are not part of this world.

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