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Is what it's really all about. No begrudgingly clapping hands here...J
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| The amount of faith it takes to trust in God that He'll be there for
you to answer your prayers... how much faith does that take? I mean, if
we were to put it to scale. Now I know that it'd be different for each
person, because we all trust on different levels, but would there be a
range that would be considered, "FAITH". How would it be measured? How
would it be controlled? The Bible talks about having Faith the size of
a mustard seed.
So if it were to ride on such a small amount of Faith, then why do we,
as Christians, have such a hard time doing so? Is it that we've had
pressed into us so much the need to be, "independent" or "self-sufficient" or "Free"
even? How about we call it what it truly is for the majority of us...
"self-serving" or "selfish". Doesn't God call us to be messengers for
Him? To do HIS works, not ours. We're so screwed up on being self
reliant that we've forgotten what it's all about, HIM. GOD... No wonder
we can't trust Him most of the time. We don't even trust ourselves with
some things in our lives. I'm reminded of the story of the Isrealites
being in the wilderness and hungry. So God provided for them by raining manna from Heaven, gave them
all that they would need every day. But there were those that wouldn't
trust God, wouldn't believe that He would consistantly provide for His
children. So they gathered more then they needed for that day, stored
it away, hoarded it. And what did they find when they returned to their
spoils? MAGGOTS
Now answer me this? What do you think we'd be like if God rained money down every day? And we were to only take what we needed for that day alone. No more. Do you think you'd trust God to provide you every day with what you need? To take care of the things that we can't see, but he can? Or would we gather more than what we needed? Hoard it away? I'm certain that there are things far worse than maggots that would infest our stash then.
I'm not really sure where I'm going with this other than this one simple statement...
I want to trust God completely.
I don't want to question Him the way I do, especially after asking Him to help me and provide for me. I don't want to look to Him and call upon Him, then once I've finished my prayers go to the bank and take out a loan, or ask a friend for some money, or sell myself for cash or whatever. I want to KNOW that God's there. Taking care of me. Helping me along the way, providing for His child and guiding me as I walk the path that He's set before me. I don't want to waste the time He's given me to do his work, to work hard for money that won't follow me to Heaven when I die. How foolish men like Pharaoh must have been to think that all the riches he was buried with would be with him in the afterlife. If you believe in the spiritual as I do, do you really see material possessions coming along for the ride when we die? Ya, didn't think so. Like we'd need them in Heaven... Hmm... Like we need them on earth...J
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This is for Andrew. Now we know... Solid Snake, is the father of John Conner...J
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