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EKnight:
My husband and I watched this movie last night.  While I thought it was a moving documentary and Desmond Doss was true to the ways of Jesus Christ, I felt like the most hypocritical person on the face of the earth.  I sat there thinking to myself that there is no way I could ever pass through that fiery trial unscathed.  No, not a chance. 

I thought I might come here and tell you all that I have given up the fight because I realized how far I would need to go and know I shall never get there.  I am surely not chosen and therefore it seems I am wasting my time trying. I know unbelievers that are closer to living Christ-like lives and I am unfit to tie their shoes. 

I think about Desmond Doss and that is what I want to be and I have always wanted to be better than what I am long before I came to BT.  I'm not sure there are enough years in my life to attain that stature. 

I'm not going to leave here but I am not too hopeful.

Sorry, I didn't mean to turn the goodness of Desmond into my private hell.

Eileen

Ninny:
Eileen,
We can look at everyone around us who seems to live better than we do, but guess what someone is looking at US wishing they could be more like us! I once knew a woman that I admired very much she had 3 kids and her life seemed so great. She lived by faith, she depended on God for everything she had. She taught her children so diligently. One day we were eating lunch at church and she sat down next to me and said something that left me completely speechless! She said, "Kathy, I wish I were more like you! You are so humble. Just look at your plate, you have taken only a little of each thing and I eat like a pig!" So funny to me you see, because even though I wasn't a large woman she was just the perfect size!! She never had to be careful of what she ate like I always have! She was a former Tahitian dancer!!

So you know we are where we are by God's design. Who knows when we will be called upon to step up and only God can order our lives. Don't be intimidated by what other people may appear to be just be who you are and let God work out all the rest!
Love you!
Kathy :D

Marlene:
Eileen , Our hope is not in ourself. Our hope is in what Jesus has done for us. Also, it is him who enables us to accomplish what is needed to qualify. It is good, when we see ourself for who we are. But, God sees who we will be. He knows, when we wish to be better. Could it be that he is trying to teach you patience. I know, he is working on patience with me.

I often want to ask what, spirit is talking to me. Is it the spirit of God or the Devil. I know, since learning truths and having some victories in my life, a Spirit I do not like often comes to me to try and make me feel defeated. I know, that it  is not of God. We are putting our eyes on self and not on what God can achieve in us. This is just how I look at it.  We are where God has decided for us to be in our walk. But, I look at anything I do for Christ as not a waste of my time cause he is doing it through me. That, gives me hope.

Right, before coming in here I felt I had lost all hope. That, is when God led me into Ray's website.

In His Love,
Marlene

EKnight:
Kathy and Marlene,

You are both so very right.  I just have the hardest time ever seeing these things and keeping them in my heart.

Eileen

Ninny:
Eileen,
That's because we are all as Peter was when he stepped out of the boat in the storm to meet Jesus. We go along fine, (knowing what and who we are) then we take our eyes off the Lord for just a moment and we begin to sink! Our mind plays trick on us! The enemy steps in when our mind wanders off into self-doubt, we start thinking about what WE can do and not what God says HE can do in us! As Marlene said God sees in us who we WILL be. Keep your eyes on Jesus our only hope is in Him!! ;D
Kathy :)

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