sounds like an amazing road trip
I give all glory to God, and, thanks, it was fun, so much was learned, so much, chrissee, I hope and pray that I showed mizzmiladykayEM, as He showed me, through that last post (not to mention, the OP) that God WANTS us to step back, sometimes, and, just SEE what He wants us to see, to GIVE that guy or girl a chance, and, NOT just any chance to IMPRESS us on that FIRST DATE, but His chance. This requires MUCH faith in Christ, and, I've been on FIRST DATES and probably WAS already canceling OUT the girl before I even realized it, hadn't given God a chance, that's ZERO % chance, for those wondering what 'a chance' meant. So.....
Am I speaking of YOu and NOT me, doing this kind of "race-fast dancing" on our own that doesn't give God a chance to show us His perfect way to do steps to see that person as a specific pardner' (like cowboy talk) who COULD, indeed, become our partner (marriage)? Oh, NO ! As I said, I'm chief sinner of this sin.
Sin? Wanting to have fun MY way, green, is sin ? Yes, the spirit in you, His, will lead ALL the sons and daughters of God , (Romans 8:14) we are to follow Him, take His good, and, His seeming bad, which is really GOOD for us
God tests us, Satan tempts us. God's tests for us are for our own good, while Satan tempts us to destroy us
Not losing you all too much, back to the 'sin' word, isn't the word 'sin' mean seperating ourselves from God? Don't we sin when He leads us to do something and we don't do it, when we know to do right and don't do it, isn't Scripture tell us, via God speaking to Cain regarding 'sacrifice' jealousy' of his brother, Abel's better offering, or, right offering.
God told Abel after Cain gave some fruit offering while Abel gave first of his flock offering, "Why are you downcast, Cain, don't you know that when you do wrong, that SIN is crouching at your door.' Or, something like that, hmmm, let's just list that verse, for the 'fun' of it
And, itsn't it like us, to REBEL after God's talked to us, scolded us, some of us, don't listen, do we, we go off and 'kill' something, usually, hopefully, not a human, but, we go and do something cuz we just wanna have fun and continue in our ways, that are not God's ways, that do, indeed, invite that sin that is crouching at our 'door.'
So, yes, after Cain did wrong and hadn't given God his best , God realized that fact and asked Cain, 'why....crouching at your door,' and what happened next. I kind of gave it away in the previous paragraph, but did Cain STOP being downcast and start to be accountable to God for not giving God his best sacrifice offering of fruit?
Genesis 4:
Adam[SUP]a[/SUP] made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.[SUP]b[/SUP] She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth[SUP]c[/SUP] a man.” 2Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. 4And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
6Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
8Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”[SUP]d[/SUP] While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
9Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”
“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
We humans are so stubborn, that even after God speaks to us, just like Cain, we STILL want to go do our own thing. God WARNS us and we continue in our sin, going deeper and deeper and here, miladies and dudegents, is where sin becomes dangerous, hmm, not just dangerous, it becomes..........
James:
13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:
14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished,
brings forth death. …
LOL, here is a thread just talking about wanting to have fun, we wanna HAVE our own kind of fun. We want to have that date just move it, move it, move it, and, what's being said, is that by so doing this 'movement,' our way, it can lead to so much more than just the guy/gal being rejected on THAT first date. For there will be more (dates), and, you will KEEP searching for a guy/gal who can 'play' up to your speed, and, the high will continue, higher and higher, until something happens, until you find the one for you (not His 'the one,' mind you), and, then Satan finds you easy for his TEMPTATION as His angels fight you, but you choose to go higher with Satan, leaving His angels in the dust.
So, wow! The Lord leads. And, we are no longer slow dancing to His music, are we ? Someone else has the lead
You see, God wants us to NOT do our thing, I would have missed an 'amazing' trip IF I had done things my way, that trip was 30 days, and, God showed me a real blessed time that trip, and, it wasn't so much a missions trip, ha, nah, it wasn't at all, but, it was a good trip with my solid Christian roommate and God strengthed he and I through that trip in Him, though, for me, more, it was down the road I would re-commit to Him but, yeah, that's another story . Point is, the trip God wants you to take is His trip, to follow His plan (Jer. 29:11) and, we may not agree it's a good place He is taking us, but we need to SURRENDER ALL to His leading, and, realize, that WITH HIM, 'getting there will be half the fun.' In fact, though that is my post there above gist written to hopefully help kayEM understand more His way over our way
, I would add this:
Getting 'there' His way will be all fun and after we've got 'there' then it will be ALL fun all over again
