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I have always been a voracious reader from a young age - sometimes reading
3 books at once when I got older...
a few years ago, The Holy Spirit convicted me and told me to fill my head and heart up
with His Holy Words - this is something that I would never have dreamed could happen to me,
(ditching my favorite authors and my own personal reading interests)....
seems like the more I read the Bible, the more I love Him and His Word....I have also discovered
that with His Words inside of me, filling me up, that my old worldly thoughts and imaginations
began to lose their power over me...
not easy at first to do, it did take a while.....
3 books at once when I got older...
a few years ago, The Holy Spirit convicted me and told me to fill my head and heart up
with His Holy Words - this is something that I would never have dreamed could happen to me,
(ditching my favorite authors and my own personal reading interests)....
seems like the more I read the Bible, the more I love Him and His Word....I have also discovered
that with His Words inside of me, filling me up, that my old worldly thoughts and imaginations
began to lose their power over me...
not easy at first to do, it did take a while.....
D
Most people who read a lot, read novels. "What's your favorite kind of novel" really doesn't say much about a person and very little about what other things they're interested in are, so I'm not asking that.
But reading non-fiction when it's not proving a belief or improving self does tell something about other pursuits people have. I've learned some are into helping their kids, someone likes horse racing in a different kind of way, someone is seriously into math, and someone is thinking about planes.
If God wanted us completely focused on him only, then he wouldn't have placed us on this huge planet with so much we can explore. He wouldn't have given us the minds that think, "How does that work?"
I do believe that one of your joys is to learn about God. I don't believe that's your only joy. That's why I asked. I wanted to learn what others are thinking about. I admit it. Math?
So not my area of interest. But I love that someone is so deeply into it, because I do see God in the numbers too.
Interest doesn't void us from time with God. I like marketing stuff because it helps me understand people's minds a bit. God comes in that and he comes in teaching me how to use the info for his glory and how to avoid doing stuff against his will.
Writing emotions works for me because I'm writing a story for children and don't want to fill their minds with even more hogwash. I still want to give them an adventure that can never happen in real life, but it does also teach not to go along with everyone without first thinning out the consequences. Guess who gave me that life-long message.
I've never written this much fiction before, so I like how I have to gain new skills in my old age. God gave us that ability too.
But reading non-fiction when it's not proving a belief or improving self does tell something about other pursuits people have. I've learned some are into helping their kids, someone likes horse racing in a different kind of way, someone is seriously into math, and someone is thinking about planes.
If God wanted us completely focused on him only, then he wouldn't have placed us on this huge planet with so much we can explore. He wouldn't have given us the minds that think, "How does that work?"
I do believe that one of your joys is to learn about God. I don't believe that's your only joy. That's why I asked. I wanted to learn what others are thinking about. I admit it. Math?
So not my area of interest. But I love that someone is so deeply into it, because I do see God in the numbers too.
Interest doesn't void us from time with God. I like marketing stuff because it helps me understand people's minds a bit. God comes in that and he comes in teaching me how to use the info for his glory and how to avoid doing stuff against his will.
Writing emotions works for me because I'm writing a story for children and don't want to fill their minds with even more hogwash. I still want to give them an adventure that can never happen in real life, but it does also teach not to go along with everyone without first thinning out the consequences. Guess who gave me that life-long message.
I've never written this much fiction before, so I like how I have to gain new skills in my old age. God gave us that ability too.
T
Sister Lynn,
I am not anti-book or anti-literature, or anti-free-base-reading
this is just where I've been put,
right-now, because for me, at one time it was my primary refuge, kinda like a 'drug'....
hubby reads a lot - music, fiction, Bible Commentary, how-to-books, and he did the dreaded MATH,
as a Tutor, Hebrew languages, history, etc....he has no conviction in this as he has no problem...
but, he will tell you, that if anything gets between him and his relationship with Jesus, then it has to go...
this was just a personal sharing, as the THREAD has reminded me....
I am not anti-book or anti-literature, or anti-free-base-reading
this is just where I've been put,right-now, because for me, at one time it was my primary refuge, kinda like a 'drug'....
hubby reads a lot - music, fiction, Bible Commentary, how-to-books, and he did the dreaded MATH,
as a Tutor, Hebrew languages, history, etc....he has no conviction in this as he has no problem...
but, he will tell you, that if anything gets between him and his relationship with Jesus, then it has to go...
this was just a personal sharing, as the THREAD has reminded me....