lionsforjesus
03-22-2005, 06:51 PM
Not just for writers only but for everyone. This is my newest one of today. I wrote three short essays in a matter of two hours, which is alot. The Holy Spirit is pouring out the blessings of words and I love to share them with all of you. i was writing this on menof the cross.com and I copied and pasted it over here from my journals to this site. Check this out.
We are worse to ourselves than God Is.
How many times a day do you condemn yourself for not thinking you are doing the right thing, judging yourselves as you think God is? Putting God in that position that He is the Lawgiver only and not the God who loves you. I catch myself criticizing myself thinking I am not doing good enough I have to try harder to please God and I forget, He lives within me and it's a gift and there is no work I could do to please Him except love Him. My only stride I think is I should strive more to love Him, just to love Him in everything I do. He does the work through us when He see's we are fit for the task, all we have to do is obey Him. But I always come to that point of being self-conscious and riding my own tale to do better, sometimes putting myself down in the process, being harder on myself than God does. I am a person who wants to have people be proud of me because I lacked it since I was a child. I never had that much encouragement from some of my family members and in certain public schools I attended (another issue). Some adults always told me “that’s stupid” or “ You will never make it that way doing that” etc. So I relate my self-condemnation to that which God has shown me what to work on. You have to allow God to dig deep into your heart and show you yourself. You know the one you yourself are hiding from. The things you really don’t want to look at and easy to ignore. Get the point? Allow Jesus to access that part of your heart just as he said in (Luke 12:36," If your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp that gives you light.") I am learning this today and trying to memorize this particular verse so when I start to fall back into self-condemning I can remember what Jesus said to me and snap out of my foolishness. It’s like I am shading that part of His light and He bumps me on the head lovingly and says, “Richard, stop beating yourself up and let My Light shine in you. So stop being hard on yourself (Me especially) God is not that hard on you. He just wants you to obey and be a light to the world.
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not to your own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths. (Prov.3: 5-6). By Richard White Copy-write 03-22-05)
We are worse to ourselves than God Is.
How many times a day do you condemn yourself for not thinking you are doing the right thing, judging yourselves as you think God is? Putting God in that position that He is the Lawgiver only and not the God who loves you. I catch myself criticizing myself thinking I am not doing good enough I have to try harder to please God and I forget, He lives within me and it's a gift and there is no work I could do to please Him except love Him. My only stride I think is I should strive more to love Him, just to love Him in everything I do. He does the work through us when He see's we are fit for the task, all we have to do is obey Him. But I always come to that point of being self-conscious and riding my own tale to do better, sometimes putting myself down in the process, being harder on myself than God does. I am a person who wants to have people be proud of me because I lacked it since I was a child. I never had that much encouragement from some of my family members and in certain public schools I attended (another issue). Some adults always told me “that’s stupid” or “ You will never make it that way doing that” etc. So I relate my self-condemnation to that which God has shown me what to work on. You have to allow God to dig deep into your heart and show you yourself. You know the one you yourself are hiding from. The things you really don’t want to look at and easy to ignore. Get the point? Allow Jesus to access that part of your heart just as he said in (Luke 12:36," If your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp that gives you light.") I am learning this today and trying to memorize this particular verse so when I start to fall back into self-condemning I can remember what Jesus said to me and snap out of my foolishness. It’s like I am shading that part of His light and He bumps me on the head lovingly and says, “Richard, stop beating yourself up and let My Light shine in you. So stop being hard on yourself (Me especially) God is not that hard on you. He just wants you to obey and be a light to the world.
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not to your own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths. (Prov.3: 5-6). By Richard White Copy-write 03-22-05)