So I Had A Question
Only, I forgot what it was by the end.
What in the tarnations am I talking about?
This email:
So I find myself talking to JD, because he really seems to understand
me more then I realize, and I guess I go to him too because he knows
you a little, and knows God more then I do. He made me realize
something, though. I have been hearing God speak. Just look at how
I've changed.
I'm reading the Bible on a daily basis. I'm praying to Him and giving
whole-hearted honest praise every chance I get. I've taken a long,
hard look at how I've been living, especially the time I spent in a
relationship with you and I realize how I was being led astray, I've
come to believe by the devil itself. I'm not saying that I didn't have
any part in my own actions. I take responsibility for that. I acted
out on some of those temptations (like smoking weed and getting high
despite my promise to you), and on others, while I let myself be
tempted, and put myself in positions to be tempted, I never yeilded. I
think I had more faith in God then I was allowing myself to believe.
I know what faith is - its a trust in what we cannot directly see or
feel - and I did have a question, but I think somewhere along the line
of this email I answered myself. I never stopped believing in God. I
just stopped allowing myself to be in his presence. He brought me to
you to see that, and now I believe he just wants me to look at my own
life so that I can change again, once more for the better.
I feel inspired to leave you with these words from Paul, whom I've
come to better understand.
Colossians 3:5-14
5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature:
sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is
idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. 7You used to
walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8But now you must rid
yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander,
and filthy language from your lips. 9Do not lie to each other, since
you have taken off your old self with its practices 10and have put on
the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its
Creator. 11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or
uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all,
and is in all.
12Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe
yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and
patience. 13Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you
may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14And
over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in
perfect unity.
What in the tarnations am I talking about?
This email:
So I find myself talking to JD, because he really seems to understand
me more then I realize, and I guess I go to him too because he knows
you a little, and knows God more then I do. He made me realize
something, though. I have been hearing God speak. Just look at how
I've changed.
I'm reading the Bible on a daily basis. I'm praying to Him and giving
whole-hearted honest praise every chance I get. I've taken a long,
hard look at how I've been living, especially the time I spent in a
relationship with you and I realize how I was being led astray, I've
come to believe by the devil itself. I'm not saying that I didn't have
any part in my own actions. I take responsibility for that. I acted
out on some of those temptations (like smoking weed and getting high
despite my promise to you), and on others, while I let myself be
tempted, and put myself in positions to be tempted, I never yeilded. I
think I had more faith in God then I was allowing myself to believe.
I know what faith is - its a trust in what we cannot directly see or
feel - and I did have a question, but I think somewhere along the line
of this email I answered myself. I never stopped believing in God. I
just stopped allowing myself to be in his presence. He brought me to
you to see that, and now I believe he just wants me to look at my own
life so that I can change again, once more for the better.
I feel inspired to leave you with these words from Paul, whom I've
come to better understand.
Colossians 3:5-14
5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature:
sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is
idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. 7You used to
walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8But now you must rid
yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander,
and filthy language from your lips. 9Do not lie to each other, since
you have taken off your old self with its practices 10and have put on
the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its
Creator. 11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or
uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all,
and is in all.
12Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe
yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and
patience. 13Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you
may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14And
over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in
perfect unity.