Firstly, Irina, I love you babe. (From the bottom of your boots to the top of your frizzy head!) That being said. ;) It's a natural tendancy to try to 'grade' my life, but I realize that because of my complete inability to extricate myself from my sin (I don't even want to!) that there is no way to grade myself. I flunk when compared to the holiness of God. So no grading, it isn't a test. It's more a debt that needs to be paid. Someone has to pay it, either I do or Christ does it for me. And whoever pays the debt dies. And it isn't as though God decided that it would be fun to set the penalty for foul balls as 'death and hell'. It's because mankind, when given the choice, chose death. And now we have another choice, and God says, "Choose life! Choose me." I imagine the cosmic hand going up in class, ooh, pick me. But it's true. I don't remeber God smiting Job's family to prove He was superior. I wouldn't think God needed to prove His superiority, but I'll be the first to admit the Book of Job is a hard one to follow. Have you read it? About Satan. The thing is, God is the master and creator and lover of the universe, and there is nothing more worthy of love than He. But Satan (acording to Revelations, an angel) wanted to be like God (sound familiar?) but not in the way that Timmy wants to be like daddy when he grows up, in the way that you want to create yourself, and create other people and worship, in the end, you. And anything that causes us to turn from God (ultimately in the direction of ourselves) is sin. Sin=turning from God, which can mean impurity. Which, I thank you for your concern, but I do believe God demands purity of me, though He knows I can't achieve it apart from His grace, and I know that I failed Him in the past (and I will again). But I should repent and forget about it, since He already has! I agree with you. But you didn't make your cat, God did, and then gave it to you. You are your cat's keeper, not really it's master. We are stewards of the earth in a similar way. Keepers or gardeners, but not really masters because the earth belongs to our master. What I mean by impurity by the way is sexual impurity, with which you may or may not agree with me. I have been impure in thought and word and deed, but I do that every day. I know that I'm flawed, but also made in God's image. I want to do what I want, which includes not loving others, but I want to do what He wants too. And now I have to go. I love you, see you later. :)
It's a natural tendancy to try to 'grade' my life, but I realize that because of my complete inability to extricate myself from my sin (I don't even want to!) that there is no way to grade myself. I flunk when compared to the holiness of God. So no grading, it isn't a test. It's more a debt that needs to be paid. Someone has to pay it, either I do or Christ does it for me. And whoever pays the debt dies. And it isn't as though God decided that it would be fun to set the penalty for foul balls as 'death and hell'. It's because mankind, when given the choice, chose death. And now we have another choice, and God says, "Choose life! Choose me." I imagine the cosmic hand going up in class, ooh, pick me. But it's true.
I don't remeber God smiting Job's family to prove He was superior. I wouldn't think God needed to prove His superiority, but I'll be the first to admit the Book of Job is a hard one to follow. Have you read it? About Satan. The thing is, God is the master and creator and lover of the universe, and there is nothing more worthy of love than He. But Satan (acording to Revelations, an angel) wanted to be like God (sound familiar?) but not in the way that Timmy wants to be like daddy when he grows up, in the way that you want to create yourself, and create other people and worship, in the end, you. And anything that causes us to turn from God (ultimately in the direction of ourselves) is sin. Sin=turning from God, which can mean impurity. Which, I thank you for your concern, but I do believe God demands purity of me, though He knows I can't achieve it apart from His grace, and I know that I failed Him in the past (and I will again). But I should repent and forget about it, since He already has! I agree with you.
But you didn't make your cat, God did, and then gave it to you. You are your cat's keeper, not really it's master. We are stewards of the earth in a similar way. Keepers or gardeners, but not really masters because the earth belongs to our master.
What I mean by impurity by the way is sexual impurity, with which you may or may not agree with me. I have been impure in thought and word and deed, but I do that every day. I know that I'm flawed, but also made in God's image. I want to do what I want, which includes not loving others, but I want to do what He wants too. And now I have to go. I love you, see you later. :)
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