My salvation does not depend on whether or not I agree with you, and your salvation thankfully will never depend upon my own regretfully limited wisdom....
And this is why we need the grace of God…
A thought from today's meditations…
There is all the difference in the world between rejecting God, and still seeking God.
Do not be quick to challenge the righteousness of another, if he or she has yet to arrive to a place with God. Rather rejoice that such a one is chasing after Him. Trust that God will answer such a person in His time, and to His satisfaction… and that it is not dependent upon our own....
Hauntings and hopes
I can’t understand why it is so…
Why it is that some people, can choose to get drunk, or get high on some kind of drug, and the substance abuse causes them to veer out of control and to do horrible things to the ones closest to them. And yet if they want it, more often than not they do find forgiveness and reconciliation and restoration if they hit rock bottom and come to their senses and acknowledge that they have to stop and take responsibility for their actions.
I’ve known lots of people who have been in that kind of situation, and I have seen God bring them back to the ones they love.
And then, there are those who have a mental illness… like bipolar… and it leads to actions that are just as destructive, because the person is just as uncontrollable. But as in my own case, ...
It would be easier if I were NOT following Christ…
Well, that’s what it feels like at times.
In the most recent installment of Being Bipolar I shared how I lost my faith in God because of some things that should never happen to anyone. And then over the course of many years how I found God again and came to have a relationship with Christ. That has been almost fifteen years ago and I am thankful that more times than not, I do appreciate that I have done my best to seek after Christ with all my heart, with all my soul and with all of my strength and, yes, with all of my mind.
Two nights ago I opened up and shared the hurt that I was feeling about a person who had been close to me telling me that I had to “pay the consequences” because of bipolar disorder: a mental illness and medical condition that I ...
Light musings on a universal conflict
I most want to do what God would have me to do.
I also want to be happy, and I know that true happiness is only found in whatever it is that God requires of us.
So why doesn’t He tell us in no uncertain terms what it is that He does require of us?
But then, if He did, then there would be no such conflict between the spirit and the flesh that each of us possess.
And then, life would become extraordinarily boring.
Could it be that God doesn’t lay it all out for us perfectly clear, because He not only wants us to grow spiritually (which can’t happen without times of trial and tribulation) but also because He does want us to live fully and vicariously as we grow in our relationship with Him?
Just something that I found myself contemplating since this afternoon. I’ve been ...
A thought on a Saturday evening
We are to worship God. We are not supposed to worship our understanding of God....
A thought on Christ and knowledge
Salvation is not achieved by the pursuit and acquisition of knowledge. Salvation is achieved by the desire for and pursuit of Christ.
Only then can we find the renewing of our minds that comes with the knowledge of Christ. For sake of God, and not our selves....
“Selah”
That is all, for the time being....
Thought on a Thursday morning
It is better to be a liberator than it is to be a conqueror....
What a night
In the six hours or so since that previous post…
…I feel like I have grown more as a person than, I probably have in, well… a very long time. Emphasis on “very”.
And with the sun rising on this new day…
…I am finding myself thankful to God, that however He allowed my mind to be, that He did bless me with a wonderful mind.
And now I am going to keep on doing what I have always done: doing my best to make the most of it.
To put it in some perspective: it’s been, ohhh… about twenty years since I’ve had a moment like this.
(And no, the previous post has nothing to do with it…)...