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Yep I totally get this (at least I think I do, but I might have it wrong). Feeling isolated because you were always the good Christian kid, and you don't want the issues that come along with all the junk of the world and you know it would be stupid to just go plunge in so you can experience junk and relate to people who've been through similar junk, but sometimes having such a different history from "everyone" makes you feel like some kind of freak. And when the devil is really on your case you feel like being too good disqualifies you from a lot of different types of ministry because you can't relate to people going through that stuff.
If I ever figure out a coherent solution to this I'll let you know, until then I guess we just get up and keep going because we know there's no where else to go and no one else to turn to.
If I ever figure out a coherent solution to this I'll let you know, until then I guess we just get up and keep going because we know there's no where else to go and no one else to turn to.
Wondering where the line is drawn. When someone posts a new thread there are those that politely tell them this topic has been done before and they should search XYZ to find it. When someone pulls an old thread out of mothballs to continue conversation or expand on original thoughts captured some comment about the age of the thread and not wanting to comment on it. Confusion abounds....
If I don't tell people what I expect, then they get confused as to why I'm upset that those expectations aren't met. But if I tell people what I want, then I expect something to get done about it, and if it doesn't then there's more upset. There's also that part where if I tell someone what I expect, and then it happens, I feel like I was being manipulative in some way, to make it happen.
I come across as cynical a lot of the time; I think I'm just afraid to hope for something that might not happen.
I come across as cynical a lot of the time; I think I'm just afraid to hope for something that might not happen.
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Our flesh perception of Jesus is false, no matter how much scripture we rip into. Even the disciples who followed Jesus on a day-to-day basis could not grasp who he was in their own understanding. But by God’s spirit, they were shown a glimpse of the Son of the living God. God caused them to understand what their eyes could never see.
Christ within us is the reality. God gives us insight spiritually; everything else is a false reality, a shadow of things. We will only get discouraged and more confused if we try to define God’s spirit in us by what can be known by our flesh eyes, flesh ears, and flesh intellect.
We can never understand Jesus by intellectual understanding. The life of Christ within us is understood only by revelation of God. We are defined as new creations, the union of God and man through Jesus Christ. We have entered into the reality of life in Christ Jesus. We cannot understand it in the flesh, but we can know by God’s spirit.
Christ within us is the reality. God gives us insight spiritually; everything else is a false reality, a shadow of things. We will only get discouraged and more confused if we try to define God’s spirit in us by what can be known by our flesh eyes, flesh ears, and flesh intellect.
We can never understand Jesus by intellectual understanding. The life of Christ within us is understood only by revelation of God. We are defined as new creations, the union of God and man through Jesus Christ. We have entered into the reality of life in Christ Jesus. We cannot understand it in the flesh, but we can know by God’s spirit.