through the course of the time ive spent here,
i've grown and matured some.
the way i think now and the way i thought before has changed.
the way i deal with things now is different from the way i dealt with things before.
the way my walk with God has changed, and I'm glad.
though i'm moving blogs again, and it may not seem very different-
but i look on changing blogs as chapters in my life.
if anyone is looking for me
I will be at http://alivinghope.livejournal.com
because i have been born again to a living hope through the death of Christ Jesus.
Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly
Fly abandonedly into the sun
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Graciousness, God is good
Thank God, for His graciousness and His great love.
FYP meeting and lab today went smoothly, and instead of the trial I was expecting, I enjoyed today. God has been gracious by allowing the time spent with FYP teammates, with fellow sisters, with friends. God is good.
And I'm beginning to think. more
and differently
FYP meeting and lab today went smoothly, and instead of the trial I was expecting, I enjoyed today. God has been gracious by allowing the time spent with FYP teammates, with fellow sisters, with friends. God is good.
And I'm beginning to think. more
and differently
All glory be to God!
Though it is late now, very late, and I've to wake up tmr morning. I'm at peace as I'm typing this, and my baggage is no longer a baggage. I see now what I could not before. And all praises be to God Almighty, for making me as I am and allowing my life to be as it is; for putting the pieces in play to make me, me.
This is not meant to offend or insult or to point out, but merely something that I'm going back to the Bible to see what the Word has to say. I'm not going to assume that I know the absolute truth, because I do not- and I thank God for that, because then I would have to keep going back to the Word.
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I have tried to open up to people who cannot see, or perhaps only one person.
And yet, to people I have not opened up to, they can see me I am- Christians or not.
To a person who have no understanding of what he is speaking about, do not speak much on the topic. For you are a greenhorn, seen through the words you speak.
The experiences you have not seen/known, you imagine it to be similar to what you have encountered. But i tell you, experience gives you what imagination and instruction cannot. For what I have experienced, I give thanks, because it makes me to be the person that I am today.
You have never, and will probably never see me as I am.
And for that I rejoice, because then people will be able to see how humans are flawed- no matter how Christlike we be, we have our failing points.
Romans 5.20-21
20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
grace abounds all the more where sin has increased.
1 Peter 4.10
"As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace"
what does it mean by varied grace?
if Romans 5.20 is true, then there must be varied amounts of sin.
but where is the one who judges? who points out to destroy and not to build up?
Romans 2.1-3
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. 2 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. 3 Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?
it is not so much to think of ourselves, as it is to know how sinful we are, and how we can never truly glorify God by the effort of our works but by grace through faith. Faith that
Romans 12.3
3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
And if you do think highly of yourself, because you seemingly go back to the Word. Then remember, works of faith please God, but your salvation and the glorification of God is not on the basis of works. It is by grace, through faith that the Lord is glorified, not by efforts of Man.
Romans 4.4
4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 5 And to the one who does not work but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Romans 11.6
6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
I love how incredible and merciful God is that He makes known His love to us through His grace and mercy, because we are so sinful so only by His righteous grace can we be forgiven.
i see the difference: i am willing to step down and admit that I will never truly know entirely what is best, but if i do not step down and admit it (even if I knew the whole Bible from cover-to-cover) then I would have sinned- because that is haughtiness; that is pride, self-righteousness.
This is not meant to offend or insult or to point out, but merely something that I'm going back to the Bible to see what the Word has to say. I'm not going to assume that I know the absolute truth, because I do not- and I thank God for that, because then I would have to keep going back to the Word.
-----
I have tried to open up to people who cannot see, or perhaps only one person.
And yet, to people I have not opened up to, they can see me I am- Christians or not.
To a person who have no understanding of what he is speaking about, do not speak much on the topic. For you are a greenhorn, seen through the words you speak.
The experiences you have not seen/known, you imagine it to be similar to what you have encountered. But i tell you, experience gives you what imagination and instruction cannot. For what I have experienced, I give thanks, because it makes me to be the person that I am today.
You have never, and will probably never see me as I am.
And for that I rejoice, because then people will be able to see how humans are flawed- no matter how Christlike we be, we have our failing points.
Romans 5.20-21
20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
grace abounds all the more where sin has increased.
1 Peter 4.10
"As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace"
what does it mean by varied grace?
if Romans 5.20 is true, then there must be varied amounts of sin.
but where is the one who judges? who points out to destroy and not to build up?
James 4.11-12
11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Romans 2.1-3
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. 2 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. 3 Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?
it is not so much to think of ourselves, as it is to know how sinful we are, and how we can never truly glorify God by the effort of our works but by grace through faith. Faith that
Romans 12.3
3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
And if you do think highly of yourself, because you seemingly go back to the Word. Then remember, works of faith please God, but your salvation and the glorification of God is not on the basis of works. It is by grace, through faith that the Lord is glorified, not by efforts of Man.
Romans 4.4
4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 5 And to the one who does not work but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Romans 11.6
6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
I love how incredible and merciful God is that He makes known His love to us through His grace and mercy, because we are so sinful so only by His righteous grace can we be forgiven.
Romans12.16
16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
i see the difference: i am willing to step down and admit that I will never truly know entirely what is best, but if i do not step down and admit it (even if I knew the whole Bible from cover-to-cover) then I would have sinned- because that is haughtiness; that is pride, self-righteousness.
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