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hillsbororiver:
I have found that when my patience begins to fail (usually due to focusing on self, even subconsciously) that it begins a spiritual (sometimes physical as well) downward spiral where I get progressively more miserable, stubborn and dissatisfied with everything.
Before I started on what I believe to be a spiritual journey, well at least since I have become aware that this life is a spiritual journey experienced in the flesh, I was not one to be mired in anxiety over much of anything, my attitude often could be summed up in two words;
"Screw it."
Sometimes exclaimed more profanely...... Then I would move on and forget about it, at least until I was forced to deal with the situation (or ramifications) at some future point in time, now that "luxury" has been taken away, when selfish or impatient thoughts (even only thoughts) begin to occupy my mind and I do not immediately beg for His Spirit to strengthen me a lot of old temptations also begin to spring back to life, guilt and confusion reign, it is a horrible place to be.
I was reading James Chapter 3 when a few verses popped up and grabbed my attention, it seemed that James was speaking of this very thing.
James 3
13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (Every evil work!)
17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Which brought this to mind;
Luk 11:24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
Luk 11:25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
Luk 11:26 Then goeth he and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Ever notice this in your own walk?
Peace,
Joe
aqrinc:
Joe,
Why are you accusing me of such evil behavior; :o . You are so right and those scriptures are like sharp
daggers that reach the heart of our beastly nature. Every day i learn more about how little i know or do
that is right, (unless It come from God).
I am on the road right now but must come in to get my charge for the day. Thank you for those Scriptures; they are Life and Spirit and True.
Love and Peace Brother,
george. ;D
Dave in Tenn:
This life of the called-out can be crazy-making
Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am mere flesh, sold as a slave to sin.15 I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't do what I want to do, but instead do what I hate.
16 Now if I do what I don't want to do, I agree that the law is good.
17 As it is, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me. 18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do.
20 But if I do what I don't want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me. 21 So I find this to be a law: when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being, 23 but I see in my body a different law waging war with the law in my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin that exists in my body. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25 Thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
It seems no matter what we desire, we first have to be shown it is not in us. To think we can walk in the Spirit in the flesh is preposterous, and is the root of all religion, now matter what form it takes. No matter WHAT form it takes.
Forget about asking Alice. Both pills make us larger, and there is no pill that makes us small.
Beloved:
Thanks Joe, you have put a nice morcel on the board...the more Christ works in you the faster the recognition in these little things...like developing patience
It is like a 3 yr old wanting to help you make a cake, you have to let her make a mess and be willing to clean it up. You have to love both of these the mess and the cleaning . That part that is screaming inside is the selfish beast...the yelling or ranting that you do only discourages the little cake maker.
On the physical side it raises your blood pressure, causes your adrenal glands to put out stree hormones and this starts a cascade of things to happen to your immune system and your heart.
I mentioned it before, but the things that we write here are as much for ourselves as they are for others...
(Rom 5:3) And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;(Rom 5:4) And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
(Rom 5:5) And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
beloved
Richard D:
Joe.
Excellent topic, I see myself in a constant state of sin as a result of matching myself with the fruits of the spirit.
Some day’s I’m very patient and other day’s I’m not. Sometimes I see such wonderful qualities of God in me but as soon as I see this, it’s taken away.
I often wonder if this is God keeping me humble or am I self deceived. I even see certain sins that’s been apart of my entire life that are so difficult to let go of and wonder again do these things just take time to overcome? Or does God leave these things in my life to keep me humble?
Have you ever heard the old saying once you think your humble you no longer are? I see this operating in my life, once I see myself as forgiving or loving or giving I find myself being knocked down and back at the drawing board again…….LOL
God knows how to keep me humble.
Hope this helps Joe. In God’s Love. Richard.
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