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For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:8
When we begin to form a habit we are conscious of it. There are times when we are conscious of becoming virtuous and patient and godly, but it is only a stage; if we stop there we shall get the strut of the spiritual prig (a prig is a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others). The right thing to do with habits is to lose them in the life of the Lord, until every habit is so practiced that there is no conscious habit at all. Our spiritual life continually resolves into introspection because there are some qualities we have not added as yet. Ultimately the relationship is to be a completely simple one.
Your god may be your little Christian habit, the habit of prayer at stated times, or the habit of Bible reading. Watch how your Father will upset those times if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes - I can't do that just now, I am praying; it is my hour with God. No, it is your hour with your habit. There is a quality that is lacking in you. Recognize the defect and then look for the opportunity of exercising yourself along the line of the quality to be added.
Love means that there is no habit visible, you have come to the place where the habit is lost, and by practice you do the thing unconsciously. If you are consciously holy, (then) there are certain things you imagine you cannot do, certain relationships in which you are far from simple; that means there is something to be added. The only supernatural life is the life the Lord Jesus lived, and He was at home with God anywhere. Is there anywhere where you are not at home with God? Let God press through in that particular circumstance until you gain Him, and life becomes the simple life of a child.
By Oswald Chambers
Are you referring to Rev.19:14?
If so, there are theories...Angels...the raptured church...all the saints and angels, too?
I don't know enough about this, and where the bible seems unclear to me, I try not to make a definitive statement, but I tend to lean towards it being pretty much all of the above. Good question, though.
If so, there are theories...Angels...the raptured church...all the saints and angels, too?
I don't know enough about this, and where the bible seems unclear to me, I try not to make a definitive statement, but I tend to lean towards it being pretty much all of the above. Good question, though.
Good morning.............it's Thursday isn't it? Hmm...........Friday? Guess I better check
Anyway
Job 1:20) Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
21 .) And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
22 .) In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Today's thought is; Let us not foolishly charge God (blame God) when things just don't go as we desired them to..........
God bless and keep you and yours
Anyway
Job 1:20) Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
21 .) And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
22 .) In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Today's thought is; Let us not foolishly charge God (blame God) when things just don't go as we desired them to..........
God bless and keep you and yours