Re: Are you sure?
Submitted by Nate on 2002-09-20 01:00:21, Friday
In reply to Re: Are you sure? submitted by JohnDoe420 on 2002-09-19 14:59:34, Thursday
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;) Do you not - as each being, I believe - will for yourself that which you would wish for yourself? And, is not the whole of the law fulfilled, that one love one's fellow being as one's self? The list is there - human goodness. Why add to it? Giving humans precise lists leads to the whole 'love your neighbor, but hate your enemy...' ...which I believe was commented upon. Yes, but ...this requires that I take such responsibility upon myself. I know myself, and my motivations are not to be trusted. St. Paul spoke well when he said, "There is nothing good in me - that is, in my flesh." I know that my every motivation is to please myself. And yet, since I have come to know Him, I admit, that it does please me to see others fulfilled. Is this enough? I am reminded of a time when I implored, no begged, the Lord to confirm to me that it was indeed He who had spoken some instruction to me. At long last came the Still, Small Voice, "You were expecting someone else?" It has forever changed my prayer life. ...a pedophile God! Ha ha! How true! He made it perfectly clear how much he loves the little ones. And that He would be happier with the rest of us if we could be more like them. ;) Some of us were blessed with a head start, in such areas. ;) I know this much - with this have I been blessed. It is with a world which hates and hurts to cover its own crimes that I am burdened... I like the perspective of that. For so long I have felt like the outsider, the one who did not fit in to God's plan. But when I look at the fruit of the gift, there is no denying that I am blessed. Thank you for your encouragement, Nate |
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