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Amrhrasach:

--- Quote from: EKnight on April 02, 2009, 10:21:50 PM ---My job has become a stumbling block to my spiritual growth. 

I can't seem to be the spiritual person I would like to be while I am at work.  I enter that world and it take over me.  I don't know how to handle this anymore. 

Eileen

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Eileen,

I hope you take no offense in my reply because I certainly don't mean any.   Let's see if we can look at it from a different point of view.     

Perhaps, just perhaps, your job has NOT become a "stumbling block" to your spiritual growth.  It just seems that way to you now.    If ALL is in the plan of God (and I'm certain you believe that part), then, could it also be your job is a catalyst for greater spiritual growth?  Now maybe you haven't seen or experienced the growth as yet, but what do you know of tomorrow?  Tomorrow you may be on a different level and experience the challenge from a different perspective.  Possible?  So if it is that very plan that he has for you then you are becoming, and will be, the spiritual person you wish for and also what he has planned.   YOU don't know how to handle it but HE does.  From where do you wish your strength?  From you?...or from him?  Of course from him.  Rely on his strength for you and the part "I don't know how to handle this anymore" becomes obsolete.   He will give you the strength.

Maybe you are experiencing the spiritual growth right now.   ;)

Gary

Deborah-Leigh:

We can not do anything to escape our trials and tribulations. They are appointed to us by God.

There is no quick short list of do's and don'ts to get out of our difficulties.

Babylon is in the business of do's and don'ts making merchandise of suffering humanity. There are 1,050 commands in the NT. Here in BT Ray points out it is all ONE. God is ONE and to try to follow after perky Scripture pick me ups often leads us further into the deception that we have free will and further away from the recognition that we don't.

We all need His Spirit to overcome our trials. We need His Spirit to recognise our attitudes within our trials.  Gods gift is at work to show how weak we are and how much we need Him and depend on His presence for our comfort in overcoming our temptations. 

Our conditions are set before us to make us into His image.

We can do nothing without Him and finding this out is something we all have to experience in our struggle that will fail in our attempts to survive our circumstances  as we are brought by our failures to recognise that it is God who is working all things together for good.

May God bless you in your needs as you continue to endure the painful conditions God has appointed you to overcome through His Spirit Eileen. May you feel the comfort of His Presence.

Arc

EKnight:
Terry,

Thanks for putting my problems in perspective.  You are right.  There are people out there who would love to have just any job at this point.  I am not offended in the least, but I am ashamed for having the nerve to complain at all.

Gary,

I see your point.  And of course it is God whom I want to rectify this situation inside me.  If I could do it myself, it would have already been done.  ;)

George,

Thanks for the encouraging scripture.  I wish those sentiments came to me naturally.  It's always a struggle for me to be cognizant of God's plan for the other people whose paths cross with mine.

Arc,

You are so right, God is working in us all for the good.  Sometimes I have a problem with the time it takes.  Patience---not a virtue for me.


To all of you,  I never meant to imply that I see this as a trial.  Oh no, this is just a small struggle that is happening between the spirit in me and my carnal mind.  It is just that it is a five day a week struggle and it just didn't seem to be getting better.  Perhaps Gary is right and Eileen is trying to hard to do it without calling on the Lord for help and thereby not recognizing His sovereignty. 

Thanks again,
Eileen

Deborah-Leigh:
Just a thought.

We know non of us have free will to be or to become who we would imagine we would be happy being or becoming. The carnal mind knows nothing of God who knows the hearts of those we are among in our work or life situations. They too might be having a silent struggle with their conditions that they too can not escape. They may despise it that we appear (to them) to be on top of things  because it is not revealed to them that you too suffer within. ~Appearances can be so deceptive!

Some people haven't the words to explain what they are feeling or why. We are blessed to have BT to open to us the wisdom of Gods Plan that brings us to the knowledge that we depend on God. That is a great gift we can not see or do not know that God may be sharing with others too albeit  in their early stages of seeing themselves as wretched and unable to change.

Your colleagues are doing and being what God has appointed to them. 

 I think God is blessing you to have the greater gift to know and experience your dependence on God that God may or may not have begun to reveal to your colleagues yet!

There is no shame in going through trials. It is the way through which we enter the Kingdom of God.

Arc

Roy Coates:
I think your growing as we speak. You are being shown some weaknesses and your are dealing with them. Just like we read in (Jas 5:16)  Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Be still and know He is God. He is training you. I will pray for your peace and understanding. And the courage and strength you need to endure.

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