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Whether we like it or not, what we really need, is relatively what God had also designed for us - a meaningful, a purposeful and a wonderful life with Him. And without Him consider it a Lie.
It's funny how God had placed some kinda wonderful highlights and intensities on special places, people and circumstances that keep us in a thaumaturgic dream to desire for more. This can be seen in our parent's eyes, in someone's pure laughter, in a baby's smile, in wonderful desires and goals, in anticipation for something good, in every true relationship and a lot more beautiful things in this Life to it's detail like the art of blade of grass...That's what Phil. 4:8 is all about... These are all but hints about heaven and the nature of God...One of His nature is Love..
Simply because He is Love.
Ever wonder why Love was profoundly established and abstrusely pre-existed on us? So that by His' standards we would eventually and ultimately follow and seek to have a relationship with Him. Well that's his idea in the first place and still the best remedy when sin had corrupted us. If the enemy has his own deceitful strategies to kill, to steal and to destroy, then God Himself the lover of our souls and the author of all good & perfect things definitely has always the most genius plan since the beginning.
He already made the solution before the problem. He knew that He will going to lose us when He foresaw what's going to happen. That's why Jesus came not only to redeem us but to be with us all the way. If only we realize, His spirit is within us continually guiding, helping,healing , convicting and changing us we will know how God shares and taste the tears and glories we are also experiencing. That's why we suffer pain,guilt and consequences whenever we take for granted what we knew what's right, since our spirit is from an all good God and we need to be molded into His purpose. It's not about taking our rights, it's about helping us understand how serious things will going to happen if we are separated from our loving God.It's like living eternity without someone that you truly love. :-( or more painful than that.
One of the most commonly confused reasons are the circumstances beyond our control such as death, congenital disorders, consequences, differences, feelings,etc. these can be a tunnel source to a dumping site in our lives when we interpret these things as God's wrath on us without seeking what's really its real purpose... When A lie take its toll in us because we allowed it on the first place, it's where dreams turn to obsession, a possession becomes an idol or when love is confused to lust, etc.; which unknowingly & slowly hooks us up if we are incautious & unhealed. Eventually we will be misled. But He said do not be deceived every good and perfect gift comes from Him (James 1:16-17) and obviously if its the contrary,it's from the opposite dominion, who's doing everything to divert our focus to God.
That's why we have his words and truths as warning signs that we need to know, like driving a car that we need to familiarize signals to run in the traffic smoothly the way it should be. So we don't need to go straight to the dumping site which is hell when we already have the love radar to guide us the right way.
If God is indeed Love so why He allows pain?
In spite of all the trials that God allows on us, pain might be the most lingering but the most refining as well. God allows pain because it's the only way He can reach deeply to us, but the pain we always give Him is tremendous and unreasonable only because of our selfish pursuits and tendencies toward sin w/c is as if we have more rights for ourselves, & w/c is as if we were not purchased. We however shouldn't view our lives centering only in our feelings because I believe that we are living more than what we feel but to become like Christ. This is really difficult, impossible and even sometimes illogical that's why God had created a strategy,because he wants us to become the person that He planned us to be,since the beginning. Until we realize that we're all created to be loved and to love in truth & righteousness with Him first then we'll just keep on ending in why all of these things are happening to me? than getting the thought of it....
This is the reason why there's an ongoing battle, why we struggle, why we become empty, and needy people because we simply just need Him to go on each day. He knows we will face many troubles,hardships & tribulations but with Him we know we can live. He said take heart I have overcome the world (John 16:33) . We know that life is hard whether we choose to live for Him or not but I believe that it's quite harder for Him too to keep up with us come to think of it that He never really needs us in the first place, but because of His Love,He never let go of us. He understands what we are going through and has the unlimited resource to help us (Psalm 107). However If we base our circumstances on what the world tells us it'll be a great turmoil and agony to live each day that even if one will survive he'll be different yet odd person . If we look up to God for the answers, all what we are going through definitely has a purpose and it will be much lighter to think and understand that way which is the truth than believe in whatever unfamiliar sources, which can be another enemy's strategy. Because this life is described as an uncivil war; We are at war with our thoughts, our emotions our struggles, our hatred with people who caused us pain or just anything else we think that goes against our will, but this perception is totally wrong we are always with God's side even if we were separated from Him because of our sins. That's why He needs to reach out to us again through Jesus (Romans 5:1-5).
So what's really causing the war in us from the very start is our deceptive heartsn corrupted by the enemy the devil who had brought his many forms of deception, distracting our main purpose in this Life from the very beginning (Matthew 22:37)- Finding our true Love who's our God who don't give up on us.
So why Love, because that's the greatest and the strongest of all.Experience also tells us that Life's trials are inevitable because for some reasons it was designed for us for our future purposes and for His glory. Remember Christ is the King of kings & Lord of lords (Rev. 19:16), so who are the other kings & other lords? We are, that's why God is developing the worthy leader in us through our trials though it's enough sometimes to lose our minds, hearts and faith; but take the love God has given you to overcome it all. His Love is like a compass you need in this life if you wanted to start again, charge up, change course, or just simply keep going, make it your glass of water that is always enough for every thirst. We really need to digest, remember, experience and do whatever it takes to keep it.
What I'm saying is that, we should not lose our hearts for Him, because this is only the sane reason to what we are fighting for as we struggle to keep pace the meaning of everything that's happening around us... Just like one of my favorites Martina's song: Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world.It's a powerful transformer, overcoming evil into good.
So, the strategy of living in this life is living in His love (John 3:16). ;-)
It's funny how God had placed some kinda wonderful highlights and intensities on special places, people and circumstances that keep us in a thaumaturgic dream to desire for more. This can be seen in our parent's eyes, in someone's pure laughter, in a baby's smile, in wonderful desires and goals, in anticipation for something good, in every true relationship and a lot more beautiful things in this Life to it's detail like the art of blade of grass...That's what Phil. 4:8 is all about... These are all but hints about heaven and the nature of God...One of His nature is Love..
Simply because He is Love.
Ever wonder why Love was profoundly established and abstrusely pre-existed on us? So that by His' standards we would eventually and ultimately follow and seek to have a relationship with Him. Well that's his idea in the first place and still the best remedy when sin had corrupted us. If the enemy has his own deceitful strategies to kill, to steal and to destroy, then God Himself the lover of our souls and the author of all good & perfect things definitely has always the most genius plan since the beginning.
He already made the solution before the problem. He knew that He will going to lose us when He foresaw what's going to happen. That's why Jesus came not only to redeem us but to be with us all the way. If only we realize, His spirit is within us continually guiding, helping,healing , convicting and changing us we will know how God shares and taste the tears and glories we are also experiencing. That's why we suffer pain,guilt and consequences whenever we take for granted what we knew what's right, since our spirit is from an all good God and we need to be molded into His purpose. It's not about taking our rights, it's about helping us understand how serious things will going to happen if we are separated from our loving God.It's like living eternity without someone that you truly love. :-( or more painful than that.
One of the most commonly confused reasons are the circumstances beyond our control such as death, congenital disorders, consequences, differences, feelings,etc. these can be a tunnel source to a dumping site in our lives when we interpret these things as God's wrath on us without seeking what's really its real purpose... When A lie take its toll in us because we allowed it on the first place, it's where dreams turn to obsession, a possession becomes an idol or when love is confused to lust, etc.; which unknowingly & slowly hooks us up if we are incautious & unhealed. Eventually we will be misled. But He said do not be deceived every good and perfect gift comes from Him (James 1:16-17) and obviously if its the contrary,it's from the opposite dominion, who's doing everything to divert our focus to God.
That's why we have his words and truths as warning signs that we need to know, like driving a car that we need to familiarize signals to run in the traffic smoothly the way it should be. So we don't need to go straight to the dumping site which is hell when we already have the love radar to guide us the right way.
If God is indeed Love so why He allows pain?
In spite of all the trials that God allows on us, pain might be the most lingering but the most refining as well. God allows pain because it's the only way He can reach deeply to us, but the pain we always give Him is tremendous and unreasonable only because of our selfish pursuits and tendencies toward sin w/c is as if we have more rights for ourselves, & w/c is as if we were not purchased. We however shouldn't view our lives centering only in our feelings because I believe that we are living more than what we feel but to become like Christ. This is really difficult, impossible and even sometimes illogical that's why God had created a strategy,because he wants us to become the person that He planned us to be,since the beginning. Until we realize that we're all created to be loved and to love in truth & righteousness with Him first then we'll just keep on ending in why all of these things are happening to me? than getting the thought of it....
This is the reason why there's an ongoing battle, why we struggle, why we become empty, and needy people because we simply just need Him to go on each day. He knows we will face many troubles,hardships & tribulations but with Him we know we can live. He said take heart I have overcome the world (John 16:33) . We know that life is hard whether we choose to live for Him or not but I believe that it's quite harder for Him too to keep up with us come to think of it that He never really needs us in the first place, but because of His Love,He never let go of us. He understands what we are going through and has the unlimited resource to help us (Psalm 107). However If we base our circumstances on what the world tells us it'll be a great turmoil and agony to live each day that even if one will survive he'll be different yet odd person . If we look up to God for the answers, all what we are going through definitely has a purpose and it will be much lighter to think and understand that way which is the truth than believe in whatever unfamiliar sources, which can be another enemy's strategy. Because this life is described as an uncivil war; We are at war with our thoughts, our emotions our struggles, our hatred with people who caused us pain or just anything else we think that goes against our will, but this perception is totally wrong we are always with God's side even if we were separated from Him because of our sins. That's why He needs to reach out to us again through Jesus (Romans 5:1-5).
So what's really causing the war in us from the very start is our deceptive heartsn corrupted by the enemy the devil who had brought his many forms of deception, distracting our main purpose in this Life from the very beginning (Matthew 22:37)- Finding our true Love who's our God who don't give up on us.
So why Love, because that's the greatest and the strongest of all.Experience also tells us that Life's trials are inevitable because for some reasons it was designed for us for our future purposes and for His glory. Remember Christ is the King of kings & Lord of lords (Rev. 19:16), so who are the other kings & other lords? We are, that's why God is developing the worthy leader in us through our trials though it's enough sometimes to lose our minds, hearts and faith; but take the love God has given you to overcome it all. His Love is like a compass you need in this life if you wanted to start again, charge up, change course, or just simply keep going, make it your glass of water that is always enough for every thirst. We really need to digest, remember, experience and do whatever it takes to keep it.
What I'm saying is that, we should not lose our hearts for Him, because this is only the sane reason to what we are fighting for as we struggle to keep pace the meaning of everything that's happening around us... Just like one of my favorites Martina's song: Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world.It's a powerful transformer, overcoming evil into good.
So, the strategy of living in this life is living in His love (John 3:16). ;-)
let me know if there is something you still wanted to add..Actually the title can bring about thoughts that can be piled up to a book