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Deborah-Leigh:
Hello Diana
You wrote : But God has been teaching me that NOTHING is really mine, but belongs to Him who gave it. And God controls it all, so I'm thankful for the blessings and am learning not to worry about the past or the future and who's doing what to whom.
I have been going through years of training towards this lesson you crystallise. I have everything but nothing! I have blessings but no control over the blessor! ;D He has kept me and blessed me while at the same time He has shown me uncertainty and how HE is stable in volatility. HE is unchanging and that He is my anchor that He drags me towards. He shows me future possibilities that change in a snap teaching me not to attach myself to externals or to establish in my mind that my well being is externally orientated on things but is more productively in Him where my certainty and happiness is founded in the originator and maker of things and designer of my life, author and finisher of my faith.
Peace to you
Arcturus :)
hebrewroots98:
Guys,
I have a family member whom I went out on a limb FOR HIM and took him in and ended up having to pawn my stuff just to help him to get on his feet from being hooked on drugs for over 25 yrs.!) (I literally had spent well over 10 grand on him and had helped to save his life on several occassions. This last summer he calls me on his death bed and asks me to help him; no problem, anything to help family! ) I asked for nothing in return ever. And yet the ONE TIME THATI had to borrow 50 dollars from him (in order to get caught up on an electric bill) since I was behind on bills DUE TO HELPING HIM OUT!
Well, low and behold, he has written me off since I borrowed that $50.00 from him.
hebrewroots98:
I meant to add to my post that scripture (JOHN 18) that speaks of a person whom was given alot of help from others whom had asked for nothing in return, and then when someone owed a small minute amount to him, (compared to how much he had been given for all of that time..._ well, he had NO mercy and NO forgiveness on the debtor and yet look at all of the mercy that he had been given for so many years!!!
Amazing, truly amazing!!! :-\ :'(
Jennie:
It seems that a great deal of this thread shows just how the world works. People get upset over money, things, etc. Please don't take that as a criticism as I am right there too. When my Daddy died he left me with about $80,000.00 worth of medical bills to try to figure out how to get paid.I gave him my word that I would make sure the bills were paid off. Back in my Daddy's wild days, he had a son with another woman. This son has fathered 8 kids of his own with 5 different women, been to prison 3 times and is hooked on meth. He called me up after the funeral demanding his part of his inheritance! I told him he was welcome to his part of getting Daddy's bills paid ... the inheritance was the bills! He told me if I didn't get him some money he would break into my home and steal everything. It's not too Christ-like, but I told him to bring it because I had a 12 gauge with his name on it and that I would blow him straight to___________ without blinking an eye. Real loving of me, huh!?!
Point being if we could or maybe would conciously put others before ourselves the world would be different. If we were willing to be "Jesus with skin on" I wonder what it would be like ? Now before anybody jumps on me ... I don't mean somebody like my half-bro. who only wanted his drug money. He doesn't even have his kids( thank goodness they don't even know him) !
Redbird:
Hey Jennie,
Glad to have you back and I was wondering where you went.
Peace, Lisa
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