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LittleBear:
Good post Samson!
Phazel, I would agree, if your friends still want to be friends, it's a good thing. No one will take what you have away from you, and you can be a friend and a light to those you want to be with. They may not see the truth now, but one day they will.
Sorin:
Hi Phazel,
It's not easy to come out of the Error Place...but it must be done. As Craig has said: "Whenever you play in the mud, the only thing that happens is you get dirty"
If they no longer want to talk to you, then they weren't really your friends in the first place.
That's my opinion,
Sorin
Samson:
Good Point Sorin,
We don't want to get back in the mud with the Pigs(2Peter.2:21,22). Also it says at 1 Peter. 3:17: " For it is better to suffer because you are doing good, if the will of God wishes it, than because you are doing bad." I concur Sorin, than they really weren't your friends after all, thats' probably why I don't have many or any. Besides so many people are friends of this World(kosmos). (James. 4:4 ).
Your Brother, Samson.
Sorin:
Thanks Samson,
I was reading through some old emails of Ray, and came upon this one which I thought would be fitting here.
"I just want to thank you. I e-mailed you in the past and told you I was going back to church because I was lonely. I went for a year and did not make one relationship. Every where I turned, there was a wall. I knew God was dealing with me, and I have finally left for good. I feel a peace for my family since we left. I use your papers for our family Bible studies. I read about one paper a week, and I have read several more than once to get it to stick in the old nogin.
I am amazed at your insight into Gods word and I get a kick out of your humor you weave into your papers.
Thank you, and I hope my children will have access to this site when they get to adult hood.
God bless you,
Jennifer"
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,5933.0.html
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I guess when God calls you out, He means it! ;D
Take care,
Sorin
phazel:
Thanks everyone for your replies. Today I feel a lot more understanding of how God works, and feel willing to endure the emotion of this transition if it brings me to greater truth.
Just yesterday I came upon someone and my initial thought was very judgmental. And I found myself realizing that while "I" did think that, it was not in my control that the thought manifested itself. Then I found myself telling God. "God, I do not want to be that way, I want my first thought to be of love and care"
Then I realized that the church I am in and any other church I have been in would have been telling me that somehow I had to figure out how to change due to my free will. So in an instant I knew that God is drawing me to a greater truth. Because the church asks the impossible, it is impossible for me to change on my own, impossible, it cannot be done. There is nothing to figure out because the answer for ourselves can never be found in a power that does not exist.
Only God can draw me to change and the undeniably intriguing thing is that he will draw me to understand it willingly.
Utterly amazing.
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