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Aligning my will with God's will.
TimothyVI:
I have cried like a baby when any of my pets have died.
It does feel like a member of your family is gone.
I think that God, in His infinite wisdom has allowed us to have this bond with animals that live only a fraction
of the time that we live, so that we can learn how to survive the death of another.
Many of us have indured the death of multiple pets before we experience
the death of a human loved one.
Tim
hillsbororiver:
--- Quote from: longhorn on September 12, 2006, 01:53:03 AM ---Animals are a part of God's creation, I think God has some GREAT Surprises in store for all his children. I think we will see them again, maybe not in the way we think, but he would not have put them in our lives if it wasn't meant to be. Just a country boy's opinion.
Love in Christ
Longhorn
--- End quote ---
Amen Brother,
A sparrow doesn't fall without the knowledge of the Father.............
Yes, I can see ALL His creation being reconciled,
Great thought Longhorn,
Joe
gmik:
I was listening to Ray's tape #2 from the conference and he was talking about his cats with love and pride. He said you can't look at that beautiful tabby's face and not see God. It was nice to hear him talk about them!
gena
dcfreedom:
as a child i watched my puppy run out in the road and get hit by a car and i had to burry him shotly after. last year the day before my birthday i lost my older brother to a motorcycle accident. this year i am about to lose my father because his body is shutting down. i do know how you feel my friend, more than you know. what i have learned is this. it is not so much aligning your will with God's because you are already doing God's will no matter what is going on in your life. what has the pot have to say to the potter, why have you made me this way, or what right do we have to question anything God does. as i watch my family through all of this all i hear is we need to make peace with my dad and nothing mentioned about making peace with God. as jesus said to the young man let the dead burry the dead. yea i cried like a little baby when my puppy died and i have my moments now and then when i think of my brother and my dad. through all of this i am sure of one thing my hope, peace, and life are in christ. if my thoughts stay with my brother or my dad there will i die. i do not want to die i want to live. the things of this earth will soon pass away but the love of God will last forever. it is there my treasure lies.
i do not mean to be gloomy but sometimes there are things we do not understand why they happen. sometimes we need the absticles taken from in front of our eyes so that we can focus on christ. as you can see i have thought about this a long time. i too have asked my questions. the answer i got was christ is all i need. the closer we get to God the more removed from the world we feel. also the more love we feel. sorry about the long post but i could talk about this for hours. so my friend not to worry God is in control and he loves you very much. he wants you for himself.
your friend in christ, dave
MG:
Thank you for your kind words Dave and God bless you.
I lost my father in 1998 and it was very hard. My prayers go out to you.
My mother is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's and she is losing her memory. She knows she can't remember things and she is afraid and it hurts to see her like that.
I think what God is teaching me now through this is that his will and his purpose does not make me a victim. If I believe that God is good then I should agree that all that God causes is good according to his plan and purpose. I think God is moving me away from feeling victimized by his plan and moving me into believing that all is a part of the plan and his plan is good.
The scripture you used "what has the pot have to say to the potter, why have you made me this way, or what right do we have to question anything God does" even makes it clearer to me.
Each pot is created to fulfill the purpose and plan of God. Every circumstance is designed to fulfill God's will and purpose and plan. I went through a time when I questioned how God can choose to call some out and not others when we are all equally loved and all equally sinners. He doesn't choose us for who we are. He made us who we are and raised us up for the very purpose we serve in his plan. He created us to be called out in this age.
This is the very thing that shows me there is no hell. How can it be just to choose who goes to heaven and who goes to hell when we are all made exactly who we are to fulfill his purpose? If we have broken the least of the commandments we are guilty of breaking all of them. That puts us all on equal ground as far as law breakers and the penalty is death. God called us out to be saved (being saved) in this age. It is not our choice and we can't make that choice.
John 15:16
Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide:
Romans 9:16-18
16So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Matthew 4
18And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
19And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
20And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
21And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
22And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
Matthew 9:9
And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Ephesians 1:8-10
8Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
9Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
2 Timothy 1
10That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
7For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
8Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began
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