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1 | Why does God impart familial bitterness? | Ruth 1:20 | DocTrinsograce | 131050 | ||
You may never find this in this present world. I don't mean to be unsympathetic. It is hard to know the real circumstances of people who post on the forum. Their history, mind-set, and specific choices would need to be understood before any real semblence of Godly advice could be offered. This, however, is not the purpose of this forum. The word of God tells us to focus on accumulating treasure in heaven, rather than on the earth. Heaven is your destination. (My grandfather used to say, "A hundred years from now we'll all be bald.") All that you see, hear, feel, and experience will pass away. Jesus assured us that God knows everything that we need, so He told us to "seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you." (Matthew 6:33) As you pursue holiness, God will either see to it that you have the family care that you need, or He will give you the grace to go without it. |
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2 | Why does God impart familial bitterness? | Ruth 1:20 | Reighnskye | 131163 | ||
Doc, Actually, I've about given up on attempting to find anything resembling the care of a family unit offered by the church. Not that it doesn't exist, but people have their own families to be concerned about with first. As far as having a mindset of accumulating treasures in heaven, although that may be a result that believer's experience, I do not view it as a primary goal so much. I've tried to depart from living by the rewards/penalty system that I was raised up with, and which is performed in the corporate realm. Dangling carrots or issuing threats to get people to perform. I guess I view the rewards/penalty system (which I was taught in corporate management classes) as a manipulation tactic intended to coax lesser minds into a set of performance requirements. If you do bad, you'll be punished (you'll go to hell) but if you do good, you'll be rewarded (you'll go to heaven). Although I sincerely believe in heaven and hell, I nonetheless view that the reality of their existence should never be used to manipulate people according to a performance-based system. We ought do good works despite the rewards, whether or not we recieve a reward. And those who seek after purely reward will surely come short of it, when dealing with eternal matters. "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. "But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matthew 6:19-21 NAS95) Reighnskye |
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