Question about leaving God
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if it was His will for you to be inanimate, it would be so.
therefore it is His way, that you should be sentient.
people think of Him as if He were human, and judge Him by the human ways that they think He should act - but His ways are not our ways, and He is not a man, concerned with short term goals and physical rewards. He is God, and the whole of time and space cannot contain Him. billions of years and trillions of stars are a small thing for Him, yet your own heart, He has given personal attention to!
why?
it is a mystery, and it is His love. but given God, and man, why should man be able to comprehend God? and nothing is known unless He reveals it to us. it's even written, that we cannot fully know -
He isn't understood by supposing He is you, and then asking 'what would i do if i were god?'
He is understood through humility - that is what He says, and He says it in order to communicate it to us:
therefore it is His way, that you should be sentient.
people think of Him as if He were human, and judge Him by the human ways that they think He should act - but His ways are not our ways, and He is not a man, concerned with short term goals and physical rewards. He is God, and the whole of time and space cannot contain Him. billions of years and trillions of stars are a small thing for Him, yet your own heart, He has given personal attention to!
why?
it is a mystery, and it is His love. but given God, and man, why should man be able to comprehend God? and nothing is known unless He reveals it to us. it's even written, that we cannot fully know -
He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.
(Ecclesiastes 3:11)
so here we are, wholly dependent on Him, with so many of us thinking behind the veil that we are independent and He is 'optional' . . . . !(Ecclesiastes 3:11)
He isn't understood by supposing He is you, and then asking 'what would i do if i were god?'
He is understood through humility - that is what He says, and He says it in order to communicate it to us:
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
(Isaiah 57:15)
(Isaiah 57:15)
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i kinda think my whole existence has been Him speaking.
why should He use human speech? a lot of people say things to me, that go in one ear and out the other, and i don't comprehend them, and later i don't remember them. there are more effective ways of communicating, and some of them take a long time before they've been completely "spoken" -- maybe even longer before it sinks in to my mind and i get it.
this life is all less confusing to me when i stop thinking of God as if He is a human, doing things in human ways, using human methods, satisfying human expectations. & maybe even more importantly, when i stop placing human expectations on Him, and eradicate all human judgement of Him in myself -- instead of approaching Him with a presumption of how He should react to me, my questions, my 'demands' and requests, approaching as though i am nothing, deserving of nothing, knowing nothing, having nothing -- and with the thought in my heart that i am utterly, completely dependent and needful of Him, for everything, even my own comprehension
why should He use human speech? a lot of people say things to me, that go in one ear and out the other, and i don't comprehend them, and later i don't remember them. there are more effective ways of communicating, and some of them take a long time before they've been completely "spoken" -- maybe even longer before it sinks in to my mind and i get it.
this life is all less confusing to me when i stop thinking of God as if He is a human, doing things in human ways, using human methods, satisfying human expectations. & maybe even more importantly, when i stop placing human expectations on Him, and eradicate all human judgement of Him in myself -- instead of approaching Him with a presumption of how He should react to me, my questions, my 'demands' and requests, approaching as though i am nothing, deserving of nothing, knowing nothing, having nothing -- and with the thought in my heart that i am utterly, completely dependent and needful of Him, for everything, even my own comprehension
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see, i figure,
when i sit down with God to hash things out, i don't bring anything whatsoever to the table.
it's His table.
it's His room, His house, His everything -- even me, i'm His, to do as He will
seems like this is a more productive approach, because it praises Him, and humbles me
((not saying i have any of this figured out -- just that i found some pennies in parking lots recently, so i figure i'll throw my 2 cents in
))
Animosity
If God appeared and spoke, what would you say? Probably everything inappropriate and in
confusion. And in this confusion would rebellion show, anger, hatred, rejection?
We have a chance to get things in order and not have God speak to us just yet.
People cry out, God speak to me, but often they are saying the opposite, I want an excuse
to not do what I need to do, and if you spoke I would have no choice at all.
Ever see a young child get frustrated and fed up, or the great statement "I am bored"
What this really means is I want something simple that will satisfy and entertain me.
So in this mess we need to be sure we really want to engage with the creator because
the problem with the Lord, there are no comebacks, He is the real deal, and His propositions
cannot be argued with. His challenge is "learn of me"
If God appeared and spoke, what would you say? Probably everything inappropriate and in
confusion. And in this confusion would rebellion show, anger, hatred, rejection?
We have a chance to get things in order and not have God speak to us just yet.
People cry out, God speak to me, but often they are saying the opposite, I want an excuse
to not do what I need to do, and if you spoke I would have no choice at all.
Ever see a young child get frustrated and fed up, or the great statement "I am bored"
What this really means is I want something simple that will satisfy and entertain me.
So in this mess we need to be sure we really want to engage with the creator because
the problem with the Lord, there are no comebacks, He is the real deal, and His propositions
cannot be argued with. His challenge is "learn of me"
see, i figure,
when i sit down with God to hash things out, i don't bring anything whatsoever to the table.
it's His table.
it's His room, His house, His everything -- even me, i'm His, to do as He will
seems like this is a more productive approach, because it praises Him, and humbles me
((not saying i have any of this figured out -- just that i found some pennies in parking lots recently, so i figure i'll throw my 2 cents in))
when i sit down with God to hash things out, i don't bring anything whatsoever to the table.
it's His table.
it's His room, His house, His everything -- even me, i'm His, to do as He will
seems like this is a more productive approach, because it praises Him, and humbles me
((not saying i have any of this figured out -- just that i found some pennies in parking lots recently, so i figure i'll throw my 2 cents in
))
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If you stop following God, you will chose hell on earth and would have already spiritually died.
However, Jesus can raise people from the dead.
God seeks people to worship Him in spirit and truth, not because of fear but love.
If you stop following Jesus will you be thrown in hell?
Yes.
Does your following Jesus get you into heaven?
No.
Only faith in Jesus sacrifice on the cross and being born again of His Holy Spirit can do that.
So the question is: have you been born again?
Does the Holy Spirit empower you or you striving to follow by your own efforts?
However, Jesus can raise people from the dead.
God seeks people to worship Him in spirit and truth, not because of fear but love.
If you stop following Jesus will you be thrown in hell?
Yes.
Does your following Jesus get you into heaven?
No.
Only faith in Jesus sacrifice on the cross and being born again of His Holy Spirit can do that.
So the question is: have you been born again?
Does the Holy Spirit empower you or you striving to follow by your own efforts?
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People often complain about God not answering prayers, but in truth they just don't like God's answers.
People pray for patience and get trials. Not recognizing that is the way God teaches us patience by testing our faith.
People pray for healing and forgot how long many in the Bible waited for healing. How many years did the blind man suffer before Jesus healed him or the woman with the blood issue or the man possessed by a legion of demons?
This human bodies are going to die. we are but strangers walking home to our father who will give us New bodies at the final day of judgement.
No where in the Bible does it promise people that these bodies will not suffer and eventually die.
God can heal and do miracles but not our will but His should be done. He does it for a purpose. He is into saving immortal souls, not performing parlor tricks to amuse the spoiled children of this world.
People pray for patience and get trials. Not recognizing that is the way God teaches us patience by testing our faith.
People pray for healing and forgot how long many in the Bible waited for healing. How many years did the blind man suffer before Jesus healed him or the woman with the blood issue or the man possessed by a legion of demons?
This human bodies are going to die. we are but strangers walking home to our father who will give us New bodies at the final day of judgement.
No where in the Bible does it promise people that these bodies will not suffer and eventually die.
God can heal and do miracles but not our will but His should be done. He does it for a purpose. He is into saving immortal souls, not performing parlor tricks to amuse the spoiled children of this world.
Send me your pennies, Post. I'm broke.. lol
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see, i figure,
when i sit down with God to hash things out, i don't bring anything whatsoever to the table.
it's His table.
it's His room, His house, His everything -- even me, i'm His, to do as He will
seems like this is a more productive approach, because it praises Him, and humbles me
((not saying i have any of this figured out -- just that i found some pennies in parking lots recently, so i figure i'll throw my 2 cents in))
when i sit down with God to hash things out, i don't bring anything whatsoever to the table.
it's His table.
it's His room, His house, His everything -- even me, i'm His, to do as He will
seems like this is a more productive approach, because it praises Him, and humbles me
((not saying i have any of this figured out -- just that i found some pennies in parking lots recently, so i figure i'll throw my 2 cents in
))