Saturday, January 9, 2021
Troubles In The Defensive Life
Trouble in relationships is like a fever in the body. Trouble in relationships is an indicator something is wrong and needs changing, treatment, attention, diagnosis, and some kind of action on your part. Someone who lives a defensive, dependent life crumbles when threatened. A threat casts the defensive person into despair. Living a defensive and dependent life creates faulty relationships one after another. Defensive people defeat themselves with their defenses, always trying to justify themselves. This is how the darkness threatens and keeps the defensive person captive. However, when we are ultimately threatened we often let the defense rest or let the defense down. Then we can let the Light of God's redeeming love work within our hearts and lives. People grow to be defensive because they have been hurt or deprived. Even when people are hurt by an accident, the way people handle the accident, as well as how they use, build, grow, and heal from the accident is determined by whether a person chooses to live in the darkness or live in the Light after the accident happens.
Friday, January 8, 2021
Tragedy, Trauma, & Misfortune As A Test Of Faith
Are trauma, tragedy, and misfortune a test of faith and obedience? Yes, trauma, tragedy, and misfortune are a test of faith and obedience. However, this answer is almost too easy, too ready, and too superficial. This answer is too easy, for the question is not complete. The real question, the complete question is, "Is trauma, tragedy, and misfortune a test of faith and obedience FROM GOD"? Those last two words, "FROM GOD", are the keywords. These words are the stickler words. For in times of tragedy or misfortune the doubts and questions about God mount and for many people the questions remain unanswered. The short answer is "No!" for God is not in the business of hurting, killing, and maiming. Notice in the book of Job, it was Satan who delivered the blows.
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Time To Grow Up
For every person, whether Christian or not, it is time to grow up spiritually. It is always a time to mature, for all of us have room to grow. All of us have untapped spiritual potential. For all of us, it is time to get off the baby bottle. In growing spiritually, there is good news and there is bad news. The bad news is you may live your life on this earth and always be poor, sick, downtrodden, meek, humble, and a failure in the eyes of the world. The good news is that in the eyes of Christ, you can be poor, sick, downtrodden, meek, humble, and a failure in the eyes of the world and still be His most important lamb on earth. The good news is that no matter what the exterior appearances of your life might be like, God's presence changes everything in your life from the inside out. No matter how your life appears on the outside, you can still be full of the love of God. No matter how things appear to others, you can still be happy, fulfilled, and overflowing with joy. The sufferings of life may take away some of the joy for the moment, but God's eternal joy remains. The poverty of life may grind you down for the moment, but the eternal wealth of God's love remains forever and ever. The devastation put upon you by Satan may empty your heart for the moment, but the fulfilling love of Christ fills your heart for eternity.
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Three Things
3 things in life that never comes back when gone:
- Time
- Words
- Opportunity
3 things in life that should never be lost:
-Peace
- Hope
- Honesty
3 things in life that are most valuable:
- Love
- Faith
- Prayer
3 things that make a person:
- Hard work
- Sincerity
- Commitment
3 things that can destroy a person:
- Lust
- Pride
- Anger
3 things in life that are constant:
- Change
- Death
- God
3 who love you and who will never leave you alone:
- The Father
- The Son
- The Holy Spirit
I asked God for these three things:
- To bless you
- To guide you
- To ALWAYS protect you
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
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