I was talking with my Dad the other day. We have great talks! About jobs and God and family and religion and politics and well...any and everything.
He reminded me of a verse I've held near and dear to my heart for many years now. I think it's in Luke somewhere or other. "We live and move and have our being in God." or words to that effect.
We live in God, he lives in us as well. We are not separate in anyway. This is how he knows your mind and your heart. Scary huh? God knows what I'm thinking...you mean like...all the time? Oh crap! I'm sorry for this God and I'm sorry for that and...Oh! Damn. I'm really sorry for That one. Oh and for the "Damn".
No worries! While he does know your heart and mind he also knows why you think the way you do. He's the ultimate psychologist or psychiatrist (please excuse spelling errors) you could ever find. So you can in peace bring all of your worries to him with out fear of any retribution.
God will judge all in the end. But hey! We are in training here. This is not The Judgment! This is the warm up period. The training area, the classroom. We're in 5th grade here. Not College.
Good thing as I never graduated from College. :)
I guess what I'm trying to say with all this is that God understands. He understands our fears, our hates, our loves, our lusts, our hurts our pains, our triumphs and our failures. But as any proud parent. He forgets our failures and remembers our triumphs. So should we.
We are charged to live as Christ did. Are we not? So, you forgive yourself and others for "sins". Sin is in small type for a reason. God does not see sin. He sees YOU as a whole. A single perfect being which He has created. And as any father. He sees his kids fall down when they are learning to walk. Then he helps them up.
And he most assuredly does not give them stones instead of bread DAD! Though, at times he might want to throw stones at them. :)
And God helps. Always! We don't always see it, or when we do we often see it in the darkness and fear it. But soon or late, if we are looking. We see the connections the Lord has already created in our paths.
God is unlike anything that we see in this world. We can't know His mind, but he surely knows ours.
So always expect the best to HA! to "Just happen" in your life. There are No coincidences. We are always being prepared for the next thing.
Be well all.
jmcowart1@gmail.com
He reminded me of a verse I've held near and dear to my heart for many years now. I think it's in Luke somewhere or other. "We live and move and have our being in God." or words to that effect.
We live in God, he lives in us as well. We are not separate in anyway. This is how he knows your mind and your heart. Scary huh? God knows what I'm thinking...you mean like...all the time? Oh crap! I'm sorry for this God and I'm sorry for that and...Oh! Damn. I'm really sorry for That one. Oh and for the "Damn".
No worries! While he does know your heart and mind he also knows why you think the way you do. He's the ultimate psychologist or psychiatrist (please excuse spelling errors) you could ever find. So you can in peace bring all of your worries to him with out fear of any retribution.
God will judge all in the end. But hey! We are in training here. This is not The Judgment! This is the warm up period. The training area, the classroom. We're in 5th grade here. Not College.
Good thing as I never graduated from College. :)
I guess what I'm trying to say with all this is that God understands. He understands our fears, our hates, our loves, our lusts, our hurts our pains, our triumphs and our failures. But as any proud parent. He forgets our failures and remembers our triumphs. So should we.
We are charged to live as Christ did. Are we not? So, you forgive yourself and others for "sins". Sin is in small type for a reason. God does not see sin. He sees YOU as a whole. A single perfect being which He has created. And as any father. He sees his kids fall down when they are learning to walk. Then he helps them up.
And he most assuredly does not give them stones instead of bread DAD! Though, at times he might want to throw stones at them. :)
And God helps. Always! We don't always see it, or when we do we often see it in the darkness and fear it. But soon or late, if we are looking. We see the connections the Lord has already created in our paths.
God is unlike anything that we see in this world. We can't know His mind, but he surely knows ours.
So always expect the best to HA! to "Just happen" in your life. There are No coincidences. We are always being prepared for the next thing.
Be well all.
jmcowart1@gmail.com
