What I've Learned From GOD Sunday ~ Questions

Sometimes all you hear from GOD...are...your...own...questions.  Often, HE leads you to the edge; to your breaking point, so that you can reflect and quiet yourself so you can hear HIS voice.  I

I've felt like this many times, most time actually.  It can be hard to decipher between what GOD is telling us and what others are telling us. 

However, when we are trying to hear what GOD is telling us, it is important for us to remember that GOD is talking to others too.

Sometimes, what GOD is trying to tell us doesn't sync up with what GOD it telling someone else.

People say I can be very influenceable and I probaly am;  I want to be liked, I want to be comforting to others.  That's who I want to be...

But, that's not who I am...

I'm ulgy and selfish and I hurt the ones Im supposed to love and care for the most.

In Romans 7: 15-20 (NIV), Paul tells us:

"I do not understand what I do.  For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate I do.  And if I do what I do not want to do , I agree that the law is good.  As it is, it is no longer I myelf who do it, but it is sin living in me.  For I know good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.  For I have the desire to do what is good but I cannot carry it out.  For I do not want to do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do-this I keep doing.  Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me who does it."

Is it a tounge twister if you type it???

Side note here, I do not think Pau is telling us it OK to sin or that we won't be held accountable for our sins.  Because I do not believe this all!

Sin destroys every thing it touches; especially our relationships.  Many of these can't be repaired; no matter how hard we try.

So all we are left with is...our questions>

What GOD Has Taught Me Sunday: I Am who HE Says I Am

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So, today after class I had a chocolate doughnut.  Then Barrett had a deacon's meeting and I had a cookie n cream milkshake from Steak n Shake. Well, needless to say I got stuff all over my shirt.  As I sat there watching people watch me get stuff all over myself, my first instinct was to be embarrassed.  Then I started thinking about a song that we had sung that morning.  I want to say it went like this "I am because the I AM says I am."  

Being disabled, I've spent most of my life feeling like I was inadequate.  No matter how often my parents, teachers or friends told me how special, smart, or loved I am/was, I never thought I was good enough.  {it is only been since I was in my forties that I've realized most people feel  EXACTLY the same way!}  However, people have felt this way since the beginning of time.  Cain did kill his own brother because God said his sacrifice didn't equal Able's.  

Truth is, none of us measure up...We can't...Once Adam and Eve sinned and lost their footing with GOD,  we did too.  It's only the blood of CHRIST that can save us from sin so that we can be reunited with GOD and spend eternity with HIM in HEAVEN.  We don't have to try to be someone we are not.HE meets and accepts us where we are.  We can't be good enough; we can't wash a stained shirt and have it come out quite as white as it was when we first go it.  I find it uncanny that one of the elements that cause the worst stains; blood, is the same element that Jesus used to save us from our sins.  

 Better than Oxy Clean!