How I explain the "anger" of God - Praise the Lord for the inspiration!
I'm not sure if either of you care and I AM aware that I am just meager Sarah and not God nor am I experience true pain; the pain He feels. However, I was driving down the road today looking for the "Y" which I never found. Anyway, I was driving down the road and I was thinking completely out of the Blue (which probably means God was whispering this idea!) that I have learned so much from the "incidents" at South Congregational CHurch. Through pain and suffering, we make so much more progress in further developing, be it mental health and even physical and spiritual.
In popped two ideas: I don't mind anyone hitting on me unless there is a nasty streak in it. If there is complete innocent with a T-bone of just a ligament of that manipulative, secretive darkness, I will sense it from that person and it stabs me straight through. The 2nd thing is when (like with the church ladies) the first reaction is not love but judgment and even scorn, I am hurt and here is what's so cool to know and WORTH the pain. The root feeling is, If you don't care about me but judge me/if you don't believe in me and my feelings and what I say, you don't have faith in me. WOW! Maybe THIS is the reason Sue, Cilla etc are looking for? I think it was to Sue who I mentioned that I have people WIDE boundaries. I warn them when they get close, so if they go outside the boundary, I do what God does (if you will permit me to say) and at that point I cut the people off. Sometimes they get another shot...depending. But that's what God does. He ALSO wants us to have faith in Him for the same reason a "victim" gets stabbed straight to the core when a predator attacks, especially when that predator is someone who love, like or are even just someone fond of people all layers of love connect us to someone and truly hurt us when the love connectors are pulled away...even a tad.
Near death experience have people coming back Depressed and missing the love of God and Heaven. So just someone you kind of like accidentally hurting you still smarts because it bring a slight removal of a tiny piece of love, faith and hope. That is why God gets "angry." He's not angry or unjust, we just aren't seeing things from his perspective.
The great thing is: Even those two things that are my Achilles heel, I can regenerate each time and learn from them. I write this in rough draft form, unedited and in my rambling way. Does this make sense to you??? Hopefully it helps. Thanks for reading and letting me share!
Sarah :-)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Vicki Beaulieu Page
Date: Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:50 PM
Subject: writing to cilla...
To: sarah-home
I am writing to Cilla about what you & I were talking about Spiritually and the Sunday sermon Crawford (at my church gave). Here's what I wrote:
The crux of what she and & Crawford were saying is “why does God seem so harsh at times?” Especially in the Old testament when He was so harsh on the people. Its because He is jealous. Crawford had us read Deuteronomy 31:30- 32:21 Then “why is God jealous?” Crawford said the answer is easy. It goes back to the begininning of the Bible Genesis 1:1. Because he made us. He made everything. He owns us. He demands our worship. He wants to protect us from the penalties and consequencies of sin. That is why He gave us the 10 Commandments to live by. Not to hem us in by a bunch of rules but rather to liberate us from sin. From the onset of sin in the Garden of Eden, we have failed Him. He then further explains it to us with John 3:16 saying how much He loves us and sent Jesus to die for our sins. Sarah was talking to her friend, Sue. Sue said, “so what if we live this life to the best we can, being Christians and following Christ. Then we die and go to Heaven. Heaven is perfect. You might even say Heaven is so perfect its like the Graden of Eden. Maybe there’s even the Tree of Knowledge there. There’s all the saints and Christians in Heaven that died before us. So will someone, perhaps Eve, perhaps someone else take a bite from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge? Will humanity start all over again?” Interesting concept. I told sarah I think not. In the book of Revelations it speaks of a new heaven and new Earth. Chapter 22:2 & 3 “ in the middle of the street and on either side of the river was the tree of life which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse…” Obviously the curse is referring to sin. So no more sin. AMEN!
Love, mom
In popped two ideas: I don't mind anyone hitting on me unless there is a nasty streak in it. If there is complete innocent with a T-bone of just a ligament of that manipulative, secretive darkness, I will sense it from that person and it stabs me straight through. The 2nd thing is when (like with the church ladies) the first reaction is not love but judgment and even scorn, I am hurt and here is what's so cool to know and WORTH the pain. The root feeling is, If you don't care about me but judge me/if you don't believe in me and my feelings and what I say, you don't have faith in me. WOW! Maybe THIS is the reason Sue, Cilla etc are looking for? I think it was to Sue who I mentioned that I have people WIDE boundaries. I warn them when they get close, so if they go outside the boundary, I do what God does (if you will permit me to say) and at that point I cut the people off. Sometimes they get another shot...depending. But that's what God does. He ALSO wants us to have faith in Him for the same reason a "victim" gets stabbed straight to the core when a predator attacks, especially when that predator is someone who love, like or are even just someone fond of people all layers of love connect us to someone and truly hurt us when the love connectors are pulled away...even a tad.
Near death experience have people coming back Depressed and missing the love of God and Heaven. So just someone you kind of like accidentally hurting you still smarts because it bring a slight removal of a tiny piece of love, faith and hope. That is why God gets "angry." He's not angry or unjust, we just aren't seeing things from his perspective.
The great thing is: Even those two things that are my Achilles heel, I can regenerate each time and learn from them. I write this in rough draft form, unedited and in my rambling way. Does this make sense to you??? Hopefully it helps. Thanks for reading and letting me share!
Sarah :-)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Vicki Beaulieu Page
Date: Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:50 PM
Subject: writing to cilla...
To: sarah-home
I am writing to Cilla about what you & I were talking about Spiritually and the Sunday sermon Crawford (at my church gave). Here's what I wrote:
The crux of what she and & Crawford were saying is “why does God seem so harsh at times?” Especially in the Old testament when He was so harsh on the people. Its because He is jealous. Crawford had us read Deuteronomy 31:30- 32:21 Then “why is God jealous?” Crawford said the answer is easy. It goes back to the begininning of the Bible Genesis 1:1. Because he made us. He made everything. He owns us. He demands our worship. He wants to protect us from the penalties and consequencies of sin. That is why He gave us the 10 Commandments to live by. Not to hem us in by a bunch of rules but rather to liberate us from sin. From the onset of sin in the Garden of Eden, we have failed Him. He then further explains it to us with John 3:16 saying how much He loves us and sent Jesus to die for our sins. Sarah was talking to her friend, Sue. Sue said, “so what if we live this life to the best we can, being Christians and following Christ. Then we die and go to Heaven. Heaven is perfect. You might even say Heaven is so perfect its like the Graden of Eden. Maybe there’s even the Tree of Knowledge there. There’s all the saints and Christians in Heaven that died before us. So will someone, perhaps Eve, perhaps someone else take a bite from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge? Will humanity start all over again?” Interesting concept. I told sarah I think not. In the book of Revelations it speaks of a new heaven and new Earth. Chapter 22:2 & 3 “ in the middle of the street and on either side of the river was the tree of life which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse…” Obviously the curse is referring to sin. So no more sin. AMEN!
Love, mom