Monday, April 22, 2013

Ha! And like I've said before - The greatest mysteries in life to discover are those things human logic will never understand!

Love this analogy of both LIFE and God! 


--In a mother's womb were two babies. One asked the other: "Do you believe in life after delivery?" The other replies, "why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later. "Nonsense," says the other. "There is no life after delivery. What would that life be?" "I don't know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths." The other says "This is absurd! Walking is impossible. And eat with our mouths? Ridiculous. The umbilical cord supplies nutrition. Life after delivery is to be excluded. The umbilical cord is too short." "I think there is something and maybe it's different than it is here." the other replies, "No one has ever come back from there. Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery it is nothing but darkness and anxiety and it takes us nowhere." "Well, I don't know," says the other, "but certainly we will see mother and she will take care of us." "Mother??" You believe in mother? Where is she now? "She is all around us. It is in her that we live. Without her there would not be this world." "I don't see her, so it's only logical that she doesn't exist." To which the other replied, "sometimes when you're in silence you can hear her, you can perceive her." I believe there is a reality after delivery and we are here to prepare ourselves for that reality....--

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Bible Verse: 1 Corinthians 13: 1-3


If I can speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy
But I don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate
If I speak God's word with power, revealing all His mysteries
And making everything as plain as day
And if I say to a mountain jump and it jumps
But I don't love, I'm nothing
If i give all I own to the poor
Or if I even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr
But I don't have love, I've gotten nowhere
So, no matter what we say, no matter what we believe, no matter what we do
We're bankrupt without love

[Love this verse! So much truth to it and honestly allowing God to free us from hate is truly liberating, liberating to oneself. My... in my past I never thought a person could be w/o hate, but it isn't so. Disliking someone doesn't mean we hate or need to hate them. I hate only what is evil, but I've certainly learned not to hate the evil doer, even they have the chance of redemption. A person isn't evil (may sound nuts) as the likeness of God we can't be and 'though we see all these manifestations of evil at the end its all the enemy of our souls who is evil. So while I can be tempted to hate evil doers {as we've all been at some point of our lives} I'll remember what hate feels like and the meaning of it, so NO room for hate!] :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-2dKOfbC9c

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

I love and do not judge the people from the world for it is God's job to judge them. I teach, love, and am tolerant. Like Lecrae says "I'm in no position to condemn anyone, but I won't condone the actions of everyone." So while I'm on this earth representing Christ I will stay away from judging unbelievers but rather teach how can I judge someone who does not know the Truth? (don't confuse judging or conviction for condemnation - that debt has been cleared looooong long ago) But I will not allow a fellow believer claim their faith while PURPOSELY disregarding who they claim to be while not being the example of one. One argument that ticks me: when people expect Christians to be perfect yet when they don’t meet their expectations than “all hope is lost.” Christians are not perfect, well not on this side of heaven; we are only working on perfection. Yes, Christians slip and fall so we will do a lot of wrongs but what sets apart we get back up and repent ask for guidance. Point is growing in Christ & if you're the type that says “I try” but really don't improve then all u are doing is the talking and not the walking. The Key point is growth and like children we grew, learned not to repeat our mistakes, so is this Christian journey mistakes/sins will happen but it’s how we get through them and not how we choose to "rollover on them"
Where I am trying to get to- is while someone calls themselves brother, believer, Christian, and does not display any growth in Christ I will not call them my brothers, period!
One of my very favorite verses that really speak to me on how not to judge the world for it is God’s and how to act around false Christians. Like I once heard Believing in Christ DOES NOT make u a Christian if that were so Satan would be one too cuz he too believes in Christ but he is way far from ever being a Christian!

1 Corinthians 5:9-13 (NLT)
9 When I wrote to you before, I told you not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin. 10 But I wasn’t talking about unbelievers who indulge in sexual sin, or are greedy, or cheat people, or worship idols. You would have to leave this world to avoid people like that. 11 I meant that you are not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believer yet indulges in sexual sin, or is greedy, or worships idols, or is abusive, or is a drunkard, or cheats people. Don’t even eat with such people.
12 It isn’t my responsibility to judge outsiders, but it certainly is your responsibility to judge those inside the church who are sinning. 13 God will judge those on the outside; but as the Scriptures say, “You must remove the evil person from among you.”