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http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%205:18-21;&version=9;
I'm beginning to take the phrase, "faith without works..." a little more literally. I don't think just anyone who makes an outward confession of their sinful nature and asks the Lord for forgiveness is eternally safe. I know that God is merciful. I know that God is love. But I also know that God is just, and I think justice can be an awful, awful thing for someone who has lived only to please himself. I don't know the reference for this verse, {story of my life,} but it reads "This is love, that you obey my commandments." And if you claim that you love God, yet everyday you do what he's told you is foolish...I think you need to re-evaluate your emotions, don't you???
I have no place to judge, because I was that guy, who everyday, did exactly what he wanted, and then every night laid in his bed, looked up at the ceiling, and said "I'm really sorry," and I was sometimes. Sometimes I was REALLY sorry, and sometimes I wasn't...a friend of mine said to me the other day that the first thing he does when he begins to slip, is to go before God and say, "I did it, because I liked it." That takes away all your excuses, "I didn't do it on purpose...I feel like I'm stuck...it's so hard." You may have heard this all too many times, but I'm sure it was hard for the man you call your King to hang on a cursed tree for three hours in utter darkness, forsaken by his own Father, and placed there by the ones He created in His image, and I'm sure it was hard for the Father to forsake his Son, and watch him hanging on that hill, because of YOU, you undeserving, ungrateful, unfaithful wretch. That's you...that's me. I know that's me, and when I think of who He is, and what He has done for that undeserving, ungrateful, unfaithful me, all I can do is cry. My tears will never be enough.
Son of David, have mercy on me.
I'm beginning to take the phrase, "faith without works..." a little more literally. I don't think just anyone who makes an outward confession of their sinful nature and asks the Lord for forgiveness is eternally safe. I know that God is merciful. I know that God is love. But I also know that God is just, and I think justice can be an awful, awful thing for someone who has lived only to please himself. I don't know the reference for this verse, {story of my life,} but it reads "This is love, that you obey my commandments." And if you claim that you love God, yet everyday you do what he's told you is foolish...I think you need to re-evaluate your emotions, don't you???
I have no place to judge, because I was that guy, who everyday, did exactly what he wanted, and then every night laid in his bed, looked up at the ceiling, and said "I'm really sorry," and I was sometimes. Sometimes I was REALLY sorry, and sometimes I wasn't...a friend of mine said to me the other day that the first thing he does when he begins to slip, is to go before God and say, "I did it, because I liked it." That takes away all your excuses, "I didn't do it on purpose...I feel like I'm stuck...it's so hard." You may have heard this all too many times, but I'm sure it was hard for the man you call your King to hang on a cursed tree for three hours in utter darkness, forsaken by his own Father, and placed there by the ones He created in His image, and I'm sure it was hard for the Father to forsake his Son, and watch him hanging on that hill, because of YOU, you undeserving, ungrateful, unfaithful wretch. That's you...that's me. I know that's me, and when I think of who He is, and what He has done for that undeserving, ungrateful, unfaithful me, all I can do is cry. My tears will never be enough.
Son of David, have mercy on me.