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Make me a puppet
Deborah-Leigh:
Hello Alex
You are not being too merciful towards your liability to temptations, weakness and failings. We are all in bondage to vanity, slavery to corruption and no one is yet perfect. Jesus shares with you/us our feelings of our weakness and failings not to enslave you/us but liberate you and us. There is a purpose in suffering through all this I assure you friend.
Perhaps the best to do is forget about how you feel and leave God to do the changes He sees are fit for you. So far you have seen, experienced and are suffering the fact that you are not God, you can not change and you have no free will. What an awesome privilege and discovery!
Peace be to you and may God comfort you in your needs.
Arcturus :)
pylady:
Hi Alex,
Your post fits in so well with the book I've been led to study recently. The inspired writer of Ecclesiastes felt very much like you that man's efforts on this earth are "vanity and striving after wind". Eccl 1:14. I've been reading this book because while rereading the Ray's LOF series, the part on free will, he talks about Eccl 3. "There is an appointed time for everything." Ray said that the point of this chapter is to show that God Himself causes all these events in our life at the time He appoints for us. The chapter is a look at the tree of good and evil from which God makes us eat.
One thing I noticed, Alex, our Father wants us to experience good and evil. Notice these verses:
Eccl2 :24 "There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen, that it is from the hand of God. 25. For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him?:
3:12,13,22 a ""I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one's lifetime; moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor - it is the gift of God. And I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be happy in his activities, for that is his lot."
5:18 "Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one's labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward."
8:15 "So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him uner the sun."
9:7 "Go then, eat your bread in happiness, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works. (God has appointed these works to us in our lives.)
11:9 "Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heartbe pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the inpulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. YET, know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.
11:10 "So, remove vexation from your heart and put away pain from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.
What God is telling me when I read this book is yes He puts evil and adversity in our lives to teach us, but He also puts good in our lives. And He wants us (commands us, for His desires are our commands) to enjoy, rejoice, be merry, have a cheerful heart, be happy, etc.
Alex, I am not trivializing the trials you are going thru. But, please, also find the pleasure and joy of the good things He has put into your life. Sometimes when we are young we can be too serious.
Peace and joy to you,
Cindy :)
lilitalienboi16:
Thank you moises for those words and thank you cindy for the scripture and post.
I honostly don't think i'm being to hard on myself, there is absolutely NO EXCUSE for what i do. I can't stand doing it, and yet i can't stop. This has been going on for atleast 2 years now and i'm just sick and tired of it.
Guess i really can't say much else... i wanna be a puppet.
God bless,
Alex
Kat:
Hi Alex,
Something that just struck me, is you are wanting the easy way out ;)
Are you saying you want to be a puppet, so you don't have to be accountable for what you are doing :o
We all have to go through the these experiences of this life. Just as soon as you think you are doing something right, then bang you do something incredible dumb. That's just the way it is for all of us, this trying to do things right and messing things up again and again. Obviously God wants us to learn this lesson very well, that of ourself we can do nothing good.
I know you really do want to be a puppet, but you are going to have to go the same route that the rest of us went, the hard way. Because what you are striving for, the kingdom, will be so wonderful for a human being to obtain. But the first resurrection is by far the greatest thing any human being can ever hope to obtain and it won't come easy for those who do.
Hang in there Alex, you don't know how close it is, it may be just around the corner :)
mercy, peace and love
Kat
lilitalienboi16:
--- Quote from: Kat on December 07, 2007, 07:01:38 PM ---
Hi Alex,
Something that just struck me, is you are wanting the easy way out ;)
Are you saying you want to be a puppet, so you don't have to be accountable for what you are doing :o
We all have to go through the these experiences of this life. Just as soon as you think you are doing something right, then bang you do something incredible dumb. That's just the way it is for all of us, this trying to do things right and messing things up again and again. Obviously God wants us to learn this lesson very well, that of ourself we can do nothing good.
I know you really do want to be a puppet, but you are going to have to go the same route that the rest of us went, the hard way. Because what you are striving for, the kingdom, will be so wonderful for a human being to obtain. But the first resurrection is by far the greatest thing any human being can ever hope to obtain and it won't come easy for those who do.
Hang in there Alex, you don't know how close it is, it may be just around the corner :)
mercy, peace and love
Kat
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I don't know if i want the easy way out kat... all i know is im tired of hearting my Lord, i'm tired of hearting others around me, i'm tired of doing whats wrong. To be honost it never crossed my mind as to wether 'i don't want to be held accountable.' I know i am accountable, and i take full responsability, i'm just sick and tired of doing whats wrong all the time and it just hurts me to know i'm hurting others, and most importantly my Lord.
You said; Just as soon as you think you are doing something right, then bang you do something incredible dumb.
I give you an amen to that one... :/
Thanks for your words of comfort kat, i guess that's really what i need... to know their is hope. Sometimes things can seem so hopefless, though you know the truth is they aren't. It's hard to remember that though.
Thanks again for your comforting words.
God bless,
Alex
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