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My aunt came over this morning. 
She was there almost an hour before I woke up, lol. I have been needing extra sleep, unfortunately, and it's been hard to wake up in the morning. I need to get better though. I think my parents understand that since they haven't been getting upset with me for sleeping in. It's either that or they're just letting me do since I'm 17, and this year I turn 18 and I'll have to sort out my priorities sooner or later.
She was there almost an hour before I woke up, lol. I have been needing extra sleep, unfortunately, and it's been hard to wake up in the morning. I need to get better though. I think my parents understand that since they haven't been getting upset with me for sleeping in. It's either that or they're just letting me do since I'm 17, and this year I turn 18 and I'll have to sort out my priorities sooner or later.
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@ rachelsedge and MH818:
Please read 1 Corinthians 10:13 as I'll go straight to explaining it here. The verse is clearly saying that we will not be tempted beyond our abilities. Our limitations are NOT defined by us, but rather by God. Meaning, we might think we can handle a tribulation up to a certain limit, but God knows that we can actually go farther than that, it's just that WE don't know that we can. And the fact that we will have a hard time going through the tribulation, this hard time makes us scared and unwilling to go through this specific tribulation thinking it is already bigger than us. When we go through a tribulation that is allowed by God to be for us, IF we come out of this tribulation with a new lesson or message that made us grow in life n' learned something bigger, then this tribulation was NOT bigger than us. We have to realize that in order to grow, we will pay the price. N' the bigger the lesson is, the bigger its price. God will never allow us to go through a tribulation to destroy us, but rather for us to grow. YES, we will go through a HUGE hardship till we come out of our tribulation, BUT we will come out as new people. Those tribulations you've mentioned that YOU think it's bigger than you, ask yourself this simple question: Did we grow n' progressed after the tribulation Yes or No? IF Yes, then the tribulation was NOT bigger than you. However, if you are still in the tribulation, then know that you will come out of it by the grace of God as new people. We run to God to help us going through the hardship we face during our tribulations because we cannot deal with this hardship when we are forced to deal with it. God helps us to deal with this hardship as per His promise because He wants us to grow. If you go through a tribulation and you get destroyed after it, then know it is NOT from God because God does not test us to destroy us, but rather to grow or restore us.
Please read 1 Corinthians 10:13 as I'll go straight to explaining it here. The verse is clearly saying that we will not be tempted beyond our abilities. Our limitations are NOT defined by us, but rather by God. Meaning, we might think we can handle a tribulation up to a certain limit, but God knows that we can actually go farther than that, it's just that WE don't know that we can. And the fact that we will have a hard time going through the tribulation, this hard time makes us scared and unwilling to go through this specific tribulation thinking it is already bigger than us. When we go through a tribulation that is allowed by God to be for us, IF we come out of this tribulation with a new lesson or message that made us grow in life n' learned something bigger, then this tribulation was NOT bigger than us. We have to realize that in order to grow, we will pay the price. N' the bigger the lesson is, the bigger its price. God will never allow us to go through a tribulation to destroy us, but rather for us to grow. YES, we will go through a HUGE hardship till we come out of our tribulation, BUT we will come out as new people. Those tribulations you've mentioned that YOU think it's bigger than you, ask yourself this simple question: Did we grow n' progressed after the tribulation Yes or No? IF Yes, then the tribulation was NOT bigger than you. However, if you are still in the tribulation, then know that you will come out of it by the grace of God as new people. We run to God to help us going through the hardship we face during our tribulations because we cannot deal with this hardship when we are forced to deal with it. God helps us to deal with this hardship as per His promise because He wants us to grow. If you go through a tribulation and you get destroyed after it, then know it is NOT from God because God does not test us to destroy us, but rather to grow or restore us.
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Yes, that's what I'm saying that we will go through the tribulation by God's grace and help only, definitely not by ourselves. And that actually still proves the trial was not bigger than us because at the end we came out of it as grown up new people. However, IF the trial destroyed us, then it wasn't from God n' He was not in it with us. The verse I mentioned deals only with trials that are allowed by God.
I think I may be house hunting this weekend. I'm excited!
I'm also thinking of disassembling my desk upstairs, since I won't be taking it with me to the new house. It's a very cheap and very unstable desk, and it's been that way from the start. It doesn't provide a whole lot of storage, and the little it does, I need to pack some things up anyways. SO might as well.
I'm also thinking of disassembling my desk upstairs, since I won't be taking it with me to the new house. It's a very cheap and very unstable desk, and it's been that way from the start. It doesn't provide a whole lot of storage, and the little it does, I need to pack some things up anyways. SO might as well.
Technology will only be as smart as man is. It will never be smarter. Even then, I can't say it's smart. It's technically not even alive. Technology might be able to do things we can't do (though it will never have more knowledge than a human being), but the thing is, behind every piece of great technology is a greater human.
NOTHING is more frustrating than sitting on hold for 9 or 10 minutes waiting to get through and then you hear a message that says:
due to call volume, we cannot take your call at this time. please call back another time. *CLICK*
especially when you really needed to reach someone.
grrrrr. i should probably use this rage to go work out.
due to call volume, we cannot take your call at this time. please call back another time. *CLICK*
especially when you really needed to reach someone.
grrrrr. i should probably use this rage to go work out.
My talk with my pastor went really well. I was freaking out last night, remembering a previous experience of talking with authority that went very badly.
But a few hours before, God gave me new words to say, I completely changed my approach and attitude, and I felt very much at peace. It went very well and my pastor and I are on the same page. I will be going to my parents' church Sunday mornings and Thursday nights to the other church's study. This doesn't mean I like or am happy that I had to make such a decision, but I feel this is the right thing to do and my pastor backs me on it. So, all is well.
But a few hours before, God gave me new words to say, I completely changed my approach and attitude, and I felt very much at peace. It went very well and my pastor and I are on the same page. I will be going to my parents' church Sunday mornings and Thursday nights to the other church's study. This doesn't mean I like or am happy that I had to make such a decision, but I feel this is the right thing to do and my pastor backs me on it. So, all is well.