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Deborah-Leigh:
8) Roy
This one comes to mind for me ....Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow! :D I prefer your one though!
Peace to you
Arcturus :)
vanityandvexation:
--- Quote from: Samson on April 28, 2008, 07:55:42 AM ---
I meditated on this personally for an example and recalled the time where I dove off a cliff into the water to impress my girlfriend in 1989 and hit a ledge below that I didn't see, by all accounts I should have died, at least be unconscious, but only cut my forehead and received a broken nose and many sutures, I think back on that day, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, I wasn't paralized or anything like that(IT WAS A VERY FOOLISH ACT), all for vanities sake.
Sorry for going off the topic track, but I was responding to VANITY & VEXATION (FORUM MEMBER).
Your Brother in Christ, Samson.
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Hello Samson,
Thank you for your comments. I have not yet heard or seen the Nashville DVD, but I think I understand the point being made.
I do have a question though:
Would you respond as well, if their had been a different outcome of that day on the cliff -- where BY THE GRACE OF GOD you were paralyzed for the remainder of your life...?
"...for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content."
"...verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity."
Samson:
For Vanity & Vexation,
I Don't Know, in answer to your question, as to how my reaction would have been, if I was left paralyzed. That was a long time ago, however, I brought that point across because Ray had said that sometimes when we going looking for trouble, we don't receive it, by Gods Grace. I applied that point to my experience. Many times in our lives, bad things happen and we might say to ourselves, poor me; but if we look back into our past experiences, we could come up with situations where things could have been alot worse and they didn't.
In my personal experiences, most of my hardships were related to a CAUSE that was emotional in origin. I don't know what God has in store for me, but least now I'm better equipped to accept whatever he WILLS for me. I pray to him for the desire to have control over my emotions and to accept and cope with what will befall me.
May God's Grace abound with you, Samson.
ez2u:
samson well said. there is a balance to all things peggy
Bradigans:
--- Quote from: hillsbororiver on April 23, 2008, 06:29:50 PM ---It is all too easy to get caught up in the frenzied hand wringing that the media joyfully promotes, perhaps I have become jaded from all the failed predictions of doom and gloom that have swirled about the past 50 something years of my life.
Air raid drills, getting under my desk or into a school basement as sirens blared, a bunch of young kids herded like sheep being prepared for that fateful day when the Soviet Union was going to blast Holy Redeemer Parochial School and Samuel A. Lattimore Public School # 11.....
Global Cooling, along with food shortages, impending world starvation as we return to another ice age, oh and those pesky Soviets and their ever growing army and munitions. The "Doomsday Clock" ticking away, 1 minute to Midnight and counting...
Double digit inflation, double digit interest rates and climbing! Gas rationing, sky rocketing prices, long lines at the gas station, the world is running out of oil! Unemployment over 8% and who knows where it will end.....
Bank failures, Savings and Loan Companies dropping like flies, Global Warming first rears it's ugly head, and of course don't forget the impending Y2K disasters on the horizon, you remember the Utility Company computers forgetting how to run the valves, gates and damns of our water supplies, the power grids of the electric suppliers shutting down, credit card, banking, traffic control systems all wiped out....
You remember that, or at least reading about it in history class? Oh, that's right we don't bother much with the dim realities people before us have dealt with, lived through and even eventually prospered in, that would take some of the edge off of the oh so dire circumstances of the present.
Yes we have had some problems to deal with but the predictions of doom did not come to pass but it sure did not slow down the authority with which the prophets of disaster spoke with, or the media's obsession with spreading this message.
Did our Lord have anything to say about this phenomena?
Mat 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Mat 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mat 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil (worry) thereof.
Luk 12:22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
I will close with this;
Joh 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Amen!
Joe
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AMEN, and alleluia!!!
IN HIS LOVE
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