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1 | Comfort Zone? | Num 28:11 | VerticalRelationship | 98940 | ||
Is it so wrong to have an awareness of being hurt when things are said or done that you know hurt the one you love? What hurts God? Conscience: The faculty of recognizing the distinction between right and wrong in regard to one's conduct coupled with a sense that one should act accordingly. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct. In all truth and fairness. To know wrong. Perhaps you are right I need to have professional Christian help but perhaps I needed to realize that the hurt I feel may be I am sensitive to error. And when error shows up and is expressed I hurt. I get a twinge (a sharp, sudden physical pain, a mental or emotional pain). Perhaps having a twinge of conscience is not to be looked upon as a bad thing but as a gift given by the one I love the most. A gift I needed to understand. I do not want to lose my consciousness of error. Even if it hurts I still want to be able to see. Because I know that if I have the capacity to be hurt by sin then I have the capacity to confess and be forgiven for sin and to avoid it. Just as I would never want to give up being able to feel physical hurt because to do so would leave me unprotected to avoid situations of pain I do not want to give up being able to feel spiritual hurt for with it brings a protection to avoid situations of spiritual pain. And I do love and live in compassion with my family. All that is wrong is I cannot live in like 'thoughts and action' with them. I do not need counseling to realize that I am to follow, keep my mind and actions, on Jesus or to feel hurt when my loved ones do not seek this. I am a sinner saved by grace. The same grace that saved me is extended to them. I walk knowing my hope is in another, not in my flesh or in the world or in anything else but in the blood of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This walk means I will have feelings that get hurt because how can I not be hurt when people fail to see what a great gift we've been given? How easy it is to fall short of the plan and purpose of his salvation. And I am glad I opened up here because it gave me the opportunity to figure out why it is I grieve and how to live with this grief. |
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2 | Comfort Zone? | Num 28:11 | VerticalRelationship | 98937 | ||
Christians without a conscience. I've found believers don't wish to think on Jesus either. |
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3 | Comfort Zone? | Num 28:11 | VerticalRelationship | 98894 | ||
In answer to the comment about living in a God-given system of laws to protect our citizens from beatings and rapes, I am NOT being physically abused! The rape I feel is a rape of my soul and a battering of my conscience. My husband by the world's standards is a kindhearted, patient man. By the worlds's standards I am the one with the problem. Why because if you watch most T.V. shows or movies you are going to see what makes me feel raped. I am very very sensitive to crude comments and sexual talk. For example: This afternoon my husband, two of our sons and I had a talking time. We sat around and just talked. But when my husband makes a reference to sex in front of my boys I feel inside a hurt. I feel hurt when he made a comment with the sound of pride in his voice that "us (insert family name) are horney people". I cringed. I see this kind of comment and he makes them all the time as an evil influence and I see it as the reason our 3 oldest did not see a reason to be pure. To be ridiculed for my concerns concerning these type of comments is common. But the person making them is overall a good person. Which I feel makes things even worse. |
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4 | The Sacred Romance | Num 28:11 | VerticalRelationship | 98857 | ||
I had to learn first of all that this scripture applied to my circumstance. I didn't realize at first that a confessing believer could be in action an unbeliever so I had to process my broken heart and accept the type of relationship I found myself in-- Unequally yoked. Then in first applying these scriptures I had to come to a point of comprehending these verses didn't mean being a doormat. When I realized all I was was a doormat, I had to process and relook at what the verses meant not by my eyes of how to apply them but from what I knew of God. I had to learn what submissiveness means. I had to deal with attitude sins that were natural from my human nature especially when you see your precious children make bad choices from an ungodly influence and receive permanent consequences from these choices. Then I came to understand that sin no matter how it comes even if it is a bitter reaction and a natural response brings consequences too. Chaste, respectful, quiet and gentle. The qualities being spoken of here are not from the natural man. It is fruit from the Holy Spirit's work within the heart. Fruit takes time to grow and develop. And it truely does come from choosing to ABIDE in the Living Lord. He processes it. I believe the most important instruction here is not the results seen but in what is needed to receive the results. The holy women also, WHO HOPED IN GOD. The work is not mine. It is the Lords. My responsibility is to hope in him, adorn myself with him, and obey him. |
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5 | Comfort Zone? | Num 28:11 | VerticalRelationship | 98849 | ||
I am fighting. Some times I feel like a failure but I am fighting. I've changed over the years on what is most effective. And plugged into what patience is all about. I have learned Spiritual Armor is something you put on EVERY morning and leave on throughout the day. IF not the fire from the arrows gets real hot. But it is a fight. It is a race. It is difficult. There is no "comfort zone" about it except during refueling. And it takes strength. And courage. I read somewhere that true VALOR is asking God to show you where you need to change. I agree. I have not completed the Journey but am doing my best to stay on the Path. |
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6 | The Sacred Romance | Num 28:11 | VerticalRelationship | 98848 | ||
Thank you for the book recommendations. I will check them out. My husband has told me his faith is stronger than mine because he NEVER doubts it. He does believe in Jesus as Savior. Guess it is a "Got my ticket I'm going" type of faith. Awareness of the need for a lifestyle change is missing. Awareness of separation from the world is missing. Awareness of the struggle between flesh vs. spirit is missing. Here are some more NEVERS: Never prayed with me, Never read the Bible that I know he has, never spoken to our kids about the gospel, never attended church on a regular basis though there are a handful of times he has gone, never discussed the difference between God's Ways and Man's Ways, never acknowledged a need for Repentance. Things done: He always tells me how much he loves me! He is generous, praises often and by the world standards a good man. But I hunger for more. I hunger for a husband who will influence towards God not alway from him. And I feel caught up in a tug of war. For I think that he critizes my faith, my Bible reading, my church attendance, etc. because it is uncomfortable for him just as much as his lifestyle choices are uncomfortable for me. So yes he feels he is a believer. He knows his past before our marriage. He was a youth director for his church for their region. But as an adult he has chosen not to be involved in acknowledging any authority other than his own fleshly desires. I've learned that a church Christian is not always a Christian according to God's Word but a Christian based on Man's Viewpoint. It was a pretty hard thing to figure out. I expected differently. And I can't fix it. Only God can. All I can do is be who God calls me to be and let him work in me to be a living example of HIMSELF. Which is why I called myself "Vertical Relationship". |
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7 | The Sacred Romance | Num 28:11 | VerticalRelationship | 98830 | ||
I am wife. I would love to have my husband fold me under his Spiritual Leadership wing. I find it hard living trying to figure things out by myself under his ridicule of me. Asking questions here and at church are the only places I will receive male godly leadership. Pondering God's Words and prayers to him my hope my life will be in Christ as it should be lived. |
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8 | Which version is the right version? | Ezek 34:29 | VerticalRelationship | 91581 | ||
I would recommend making a new folder called "Basic Training" in your email account. Then as you get the answers to questions in your search to better understand you can place the answers in this folder to refer to as a reference. | ||||||
9 | Which version is the right version? | Ezek 34:29 | VerticalRelationship | 91577 | ||
I agree. The summary does not contain an argumentative attitude. It is concise and helps get a clearer view of the translations. Another link is: http://www.how-to-pick-a-bible.com/ This link is to a web site that goes through detail in explaining how to pick a Bible most useful for your own study. When I asked the original question I sent the question to several Christian friends. I've received several answers. The links were useful in formulating depth to my own, the answer for me. |
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