alonymous (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} alonymous) wrote,@ 2007-06-15 11:40:00 |
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The more you realize yourself the less will you seek God.
June 10th
Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you only given a languid cry to Him after a twinge of moral neuralgia?
Last night ginni and I were discussing whether we should desire to cry out to God "out of moral poverty." She felt that this implied that He is some sort of last resort and we shouldn't be trying to get to that point. We came to the conclusion that we shouldn't seek this out, but if we do get to that point anyway, it's better to cry out to Him in that moment than to not. Plus, God can take those times and use them so that eventually we will be seeking Him as a first resort and not even realize it.
Now, however, I feel that this is an incomplete conclusion. When I'm not in a place that I need Him as a last resort, what am I to do? What we concluded last night does not answer that question, but the above quote does. If I am seeking God with my whole heart, anything I ask of Him will be out of moral poverty because I will be more aware of my current status relative to Him.
Experience is a gateway, not an end.
It's interesting to note how often I measure how close I am to God based on how I feel, based on my current experiences. I shouldn't be striving to feel a certain way. Those feelings and experiences should be a turning point and a jumping board into bigger and better things, not the thing for which I am striving. I should be striving for Him and Him alone.
You can never give another person that which you have found, but you can make him homesick for what you have.
That's just cool.
June 11th
The questions that matter in life are remarkably few, and they are all answered by the words - "Come unto Me."
I absolutely love that.
If you want the actual experience of ceasing from sin, you must come to Jesus.
I can try my hardest to overcome sin on my own, but I won't ever accomplish it without first coming to Him. I have to realize that I CAN'T do it on my own. I WILL fail. It is by His power alone that I can overcome sin.
(So simple in concept, but so hard to live, eh?)
June 10th
Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you only given a languid cry to Him after a twinge of moral neuralgia?
Last night ginni and I were discussing whether we should desire to cry out to God "out of moral poverty." She felt that this implied that He is some sort of last resort and we shouldn't be trying to get to that point. We came to the conclusion that we shouldn't seek this out, but if we do get to that point anyway, it's better to cry out to Him in that moment than to not. Plus, God can take those times and use them so that eventually we will be seeking Him as a first resort and not even realize it.
Now, however, I feel that this is an incomplete conclusion. When I'm not in a place that I need Him as a last resort, what am I to do? What we concluded last night does not answer that question, but the above quote does. If I am seeking God with my whole heart, anything I ask of Him will be out of moral poverty because I will be more aware of my current status relative to Him.
Experience is a gateway, not an end.
It's interesting to note how often I measure how close I am to God based on how I feel, based on my current experiences. I shouldn't be striving to feel a certain way. Those feelings and experiences should be a turning point and a jumping board into bigger and better things, not the thing for which I am striving. I should be striving for Him and Him alone.
You can never give another person that which you have found, but you can make him homesick for what you have.
That's just cool.
June 11th
The questions that matter in life are remarkably few, and they are all answered by the words - "Come unto Me."
I absolutely love that.
If you want the actual experience of ceasing from sin, you must come to Jesus.
I can try my hardest to overcome sin on my own, but I won't ever accomplish it without first coming to Him. I have to realize that I CAN'T do it on my own. I WILL fail. It is by His power alone that I can overcome sin.
(So simple in concept, but so hard to live, eh?)
