One thing that I have learned is that God does not make us exempt from desires, and negatively, temptations when we start following Him. In fact, He made it clear that it would be difficult. But lately, the difficulty of wrong temptations has been replaced by something overwhelming, something outside the scope of keeping standards.
Locating and cultivating all of your good human desires for God's glory, and not being under the disgust and peril of trying to please everyone.
In I Timothy, Pal talks about things that are "to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth."
And what to make of this?
"For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer."
Posted by Kammer at May 22, 2006 07:32 PMand his cohort Barnaby.
Posted by: Brade at May 22, 2006 11:31 PMFeelings can be so difficult to harness, channel--even identify. What are your thoughts?
Posted by: Korvo at May 23, 2006 05:43 PMThere's a man going around taking names
And he decides who to free and who to blame.
Everybody won't be treated all the same.
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down
When the Man comes around.
The hairs on your arm will stand up
At the terror in each sip and in each sup.
Will you partake of that last offered cup?
Or disappear into the potter's ground
When the Man comes around.
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers.
One hundred million angels singing.
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum.
Voices calling, voices crying.
Some are born and some are dying.
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come.
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
The virgins are all trimming their wicks.
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Till Armageddon no shalam, no shalom.
Then the father hen will call his chickens home.
The wise man will bow down before the throne.
And at His feet they'll cast their golden crowns
When the Man comes around.
Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still.
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still.
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still.
Listen to the words long written down
When the Man comes around.
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers.
One hundred million angels singing.
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum.
Voices calling and voices crying.
Some are born and some are dying.
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come.
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
The virgins are all trimming their wicks.
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
In measured hundred weight and penny pound
When the Man comes around.
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