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How do you know if you are called and chosen?
SOTW:
Anyone who trusts in Christ, will not be ashamed.
love_magnified:
Amen.
mercie:
--- Quote from: SOTW ---Anyone who trusts in Christ, will not be ashamed.
--- End quote ---
Amen
jack88:
Thank you very much everyone that replied.
Your thoughts, experiences and advice mean a great deal and have provided some food for thought.
Daniel your words bought a tear to my eye .....there's nothing quite like talking to the walls or yourself is there!
I've often felt bewildered, confounded and sort of jealous of those that you see that seem so filled with a spirit proclaiming God, etc.......it's like they have access to the hotline and I can't even find the phone let alone the number.
Indagator, thanks for sharing.
To everyone thanks .....it makes me realise I am not the only one with these thoughts.
I look forward to reading and learning more.
Finally, Pligrim, you said to surrender completely to God's will.....I can understand the part I would play, learning, praying and studying to understand and know God's will yet the bit I have trouble with is how do I surrender ....what does that mean on a day to day, minute to minute basis .....how exactly in practical everyday terms do I do that?
If say I think something that is not Godly or of love what is the next step?
I'm sorry if these questions seem simple and fundamental but I need to understand my part to be a part ....I'm not getting the surrender bit....any analogies might be helpful.
Again thanks,
Jack
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JJ:
Everyone, very good posts...... lots to think about......
Jack, In reference to surrender--how? what does it mean in everyday life? ....... As a young person, I poured my heart and life out to God,
wanting so badly to give Him my all..... surrendering all was the goal, but
as a young person, I did not have that much to surrender and had no idea what ALL would mean, so as the years passed, it became more
clear that as much as I thought I wanted to surrender, I wasn't doing a
very good job....... all about growing, all about dying - to the flesh.
I can't speak for others or say this is the only way, but for me, it seems
that our desire to surrender is compelled by circumstances that God brings to us, He lets us burn our bridges, fight our fights, have our way
until we are sick of it, until we see that "we" are nothing, that "we" are
failures and that "we" can not stomach life w/o Him, more of Him, and
our desire for Him grows and we become more inclined to surrender all.
It just happens, whether our weakness is lust or fear...... God works it
out of us, over and over, deeper and deeper, and once we realize "we"
are a wasted piece of #$%*, surrender becomes priority and natural....
in time--the flesh will always take a rip at us, but .... sin becomes quite
repulsive after many rounds of dying and failing and being sickened by
your own flesh.
To me, John 6:44 that says no man comes to Christ except the Father
drags him, applies to more than just the beginning when we first believe in Christ, but to the whole life...... I am sure that if God did not drag me,
kicking and screaming, I would NOT have ever sought Him and would not
continue to seek Him...... even though God has been the focus of my life, I see that it was NOT me, but Him that made that happen..... so
just ask Him to take you and keep you, according to His will and ask Him
to make your desires for Him and to teach you to surrender and sin less
and then hang on! For it is painful and fierce, this dying to the flesh thing-- and isn't that what surrender is?..... giving up our life to His will.
sorry so long, JJ
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