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I honestly don't get the beef. I'm not lying - I don't get it. I mean...I get it, but I don't get WHY there is a beef to begin with.
My trust did not come from me. He gave it to me when He opened my eyes to see that He was. My obedience of trust is something He has worked to build in me. He is the one who has grown it. He was the author of my trust and He has been the grower of my trust and He will be the finisher of my trust. When I see how He has gotten me securely in the obedience of trust, and see how He has brought me through my struggles in it, the verses everyone fights so strenuously over become assurances and comforts that He is certainly doing all good in me.
I am just too dumb to understand.
It's a race of trust and remaining in trust for longer and longer periods of time without stumbling and stopping my trusting. The verses in the op are assurances to me. They don't tell me any work I must do but instead show me all HE has been doing for me and in me and so they make me happy.
My trust did not come from me. He gave it to me when He opened my eyes to see that He was. My obedience of trust is something He has worked to build in me. He is the one who has grown it. He was the author of my trust and He has been the grower of my trust and He will be the finisher of my trust. When I see how He has gotten me securely in the obedience of trust, and see how He has brought me through my struggles in it, the verses everyone fights so strenuously over become assurances and comforts that He is certainly doing all good in me.
I am just too dumb to understand.
It's a race of trust and remaining in trust for longer and longer periods of time without stumbling and stopping my trusting. The verses in the op are assurances to me. They don't tell me any work I must do but instead show me all HE has been doing for me and in me and so they make me happy.
I went forward at an alter call at a Billy Graham crusade when I was 5 at Angel stadium.
I distinctly remember deciding to go forward, and distinctly remember making the long walk down the stairs to the field. I had no idea at the time that I was not under my own power, that I was being forced to do that. That God, He is a sneaky dictator isn't He?
Makes me wonder what else I've been forced to do that I thought was my own participation.
I suppose that means when I decide not to go to church on a certain day, God is forcing me to (not) do that as well.
Ima gonna call Him the Holy Armtwister from now on!
I distinctly remember deciding to go forward, and distinctly remember making the long walk down the stairs to the field. I had no idea at the time that I was not under my own power, that I was being forced to do that. That God, He is a sneaky dictator isn't He?
Makes me wonder what else I've been forced to do that I thought was my own participation.
I suppose that means when I decide not to go to church on a certain day, God is forcing me to (not) do that as well.
Ima gonna call Him the Holy Armtwister from now on!
