An Apology
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Jesus' followers watched Him perform numerous miracles of varying types. What did He then tell them about it?
John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Who is going to do these things? YOU are going to do them. Did Jesus say they would sit back and watch God work? No, He Said THEY would do God's work. Did Jesus say they should pray for Him to continue to do these things? No, He said YOU will do them.
Just like the verse that says we will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. Who will lay hands on the sick? WE will. Are we to pray that Jesus heal people? No He says WE are to do it.
That's the partnership I was talking about. God holds the authority but repeatedly says it is up to US to use it.
Exactly like the Sherriff and his deputies.
John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Who is going to do these things? YOU are going to do them. Did Jesus say they would sit back and watch God work? No, He Said THEY would do God's work. Did Jesus say they should pray for Him to continue to do these things? No, He said YOU will do them.
Just like the verse that says we will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. Who will lay hands on the sick? WE will. Are we to pray that Jesus heal people? No He says WE are to do it.
That's the partnership I was talking about. God holds the authority but repeatedly says it is up to US to use it.
Exactly like the Sherriff and his deputies.
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Neither do I. That's not God crapping on me. That's God layering a whole bunch of elephant-dung-wonderfully-rich-in-nutrient compost* on me to make me become the healthy plant he designed me to be. THAT is the difference. God uses crap to grow us -- if we want it or not. lol
*As far as composting goes, if you can get horse dung or cow dung for your compost, get it. It is some of the best dung for composting. BUT elephant dung truly is the best of the best. The only reason most of gardeners don't use it is because who has elephants around pooping it? (Barnum and Bailey just retired their elephants, so no chance of getting it ever again in the US.)
*As far as composting goes, if you can get horse dung or cow dung for your compost, get it. It is some of the best dung for composting. BUT elephant dung truly is the best of the best. The only reason most of gardeners don't use it is because who has elephants around pooping it? (Barnum and Bailey just retired their elephants, so no chance of getting it ever again in the US.)
Ricky there is a way to handle this situation and responding like this is not the way.
Try to imagine how she feels put your feet in her shoes for a minute. she has had it rough in life really rough maybe even worse than me, not everyone can handle that kind of pain so easily. Her heart still has open wounds and as I said before the wounds of the heart are the hardest and slowest to heal. What she needs to be able to help quicken the healing process is not debates and is not responding to her like this, she needs understanding she needs people who not only know and understand what she is going through and how she is handling it the best she can but people to help her to encourage her to be there for her.
Everyone has been through battles even ppl who had everything given to them in life who have never had to lift a finger or do anything for themselves have wounds inside that are just as important as the wounds I bear or what depleted bears. We all have a blade and a blade is a useful thing it can be used to cut down to harm to kill but it can also be used to heal it can be used and utilized to protect it can be used for anything really depending on the wielder using it.
What kind of blade does need she right now? and what kind of blade are you wielding?
Try to imagine how she feels put your feet in her shoes for a minute. she has had it rough in life really rough maybe even worse than me, not everyone can handle that kind of pain so easily. Her heart still has open wounds and as I said before the wounds of the heart are the hardest and slowest to heal. What she needs to be able to help quicken the healing process is not debates and is not responding to her like this, she needs understanding she needs people who not only know and understand what she is going through and how she is handling it the best she can but people to help her to encourage her to be there for her.
Everyone has been through battles even ppl who had everything given to them in life who have never had to lift a finger or do anything for themselves have wounds inside that are just as important as the wounds I bear or what depleted bears. We all have a blade and a blade is a useful thing it can be used to cut down to harm to kill but it can also be used to heal it can be used and utilized to protect it can be used for anything really depending on the wielder using it.
What kind of blade does need she right now? and what kind of blade are you wielding?
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Jesus' followers?
You mean like Stephen, who was killed for taking care of widows and kids because that is what Christ would have him do?
Or like Paul, (the guy who helped kill Stephen), who was blinded as the first act of the divine Christ, was put in prison more than once, was shipwrecked, lived with a thorn in his side, almost died from some illness only to regain his health to be imprisoned and killed by Rome, because he followed Christ to the end?
Peter? Who had a lot of grief as the main dude in Jerusalem, (by Paul again lol), and was ultimately killed for teaching what Christ taught him?
Every single Christian in Alexandria who were slaughtered?
These are the people you claim God himself sat back and did nothing for. It was not God who did that to them. He couldn't help it. Satan won for a while, so he hired us as deputies, and we still can't do it.
THIS is the history you'd deny to give Satan way too much glory and ability to do. That is the God you discount with excuses.
Clay is made out of dead animals, dead plants, and yes -- CRAP! And these are the words of the guy who helped kill Stephen, who drove Peter to the brink, and who had a horribly tough life with a wonderful treasure inside him. I am not ashamed of the elephant dung God has heaped me with. It has become a part of the tulip I am becoming.
2. Cor. 4:7-16
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So death is at work in us, but life in you.
13 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, 14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. 15 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
You mean like Stephen, who was killed for taking care of widows and kids because that is what Christ would have him do?
Or like Paul, (the guy who helped kill Stephen), who was blinded as the first act of the divine Christ, was put in prison more than once, was shipwrecked, lived with a thorn in his side, almost died from some illness only to regain his health to be imprisoned and killed by Rome, because he followed Christ to the end?
Peter? Who had a lot of grief as the main dude in Jerusalem, (by Paul again lol), and was ultimately killed for teaching what Christ taught him?
Every single Christian in Alexandria who were slaughtered?
These are the people you claim God himself sat back and did nothing for. It was not God who did that to them. He couldn't help it. Satan won for a while, so he hired us as deputies, and we still can't do it.
THIS is the history you'd deny to give Satan way too much glory and ability to do. That is the God you discount with excuses.
Clay is made out of dead animals, dead plants, and yes -- CRAP! And these are the words of the guy who helped kill Stephen, who drove Peter to the brink, and who had a horribly tough life with a wonderful treasure inside him. I am not ashamed of the elephant dung God has heaped me with. It has become a part of the tulip I am becoming.
2. Cor. 4:7-16
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So death is at work in us, but life in you.
13 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, 14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. 15 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
BUT SERIOUSLY, THO...
- Rabbit poop can be composted, or simply worked into the soil. It doesn't burn the way horse or cow does.
- It has more nutrients.
- It comes in convenient little pellets, as opposed to golf ball-sized turds.