Comments on: Thanks Giving Part 1 http://www.someguyandhismac.com/2007/11/22/thanks-giving-part-1/ My rambling of thoughts. Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:45:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Josh http://www.someguyandhismac.com/2007/11/22/thanks-giving-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Josh Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:09:35 +0000 http://www.someguyandhismac.com/2007/11/22/thanks-giving-part-1/#comment-30 I understand. I am glad that God is teaching you these things and that you are coming into a deeper understanding of His Grace. I know alot of times we struggle with alot with feeling forgiven it is like we know we are forgiven but we dont live it out that way or even feel it. You re right when we have accepted Christ as savior we have found favor with God there is nothing else that can be done. You are absolutely right that Satan wants us to be unuseful to God and one way to do that is to shame us or guilt us into unusefulness. Thanks for asking about what God has shown me. Without going into too much detail God has shown me lately that He wants to and has a desire to bless me as one of his children. This has taught me so much about His love and Grace. God is not waiting for me to make a mistake to take blessing away but quite the opposite. God is waiting for me to put total faith and dependence on HIm and He will open the storehouse of blessing. I cant even begin to tell of what God has done in my life over this past year, not because I have deserved any of it but because God is God and I am His child. This is not all God has shown me but this is one thing. I understand. I am glad that God is teaching you these things and that you are coming into a deeper understanding of His Grace. I know alot of times we struggle with alot with feeling forgiven it is like we know we are forgiven but we dont live it out that way or even feel it. You re right when we have accepted Christ as savior we have found favor with God there is nothing else that can be done. You are absolutely right that Satan wants us to be unuseful to God and one way to do that is to shame us or guilt us into unusefulness.

Thanks for asking about what God has shown me. Without going into too much detail God has shown me lately that He wants to and has a desire to bless me as one of his children. This has taught me so much about His love and Grace. God is not waiting for me to make a mistake to take blessing away but quite the opposite. God is waiting for me to put total faith and dependence on HIm and He will open the storehouse of blessing. I cant even begin to tell of what God has done in my life over this past year, not because I have deserved any of it but because God is God and I am His child.

This is not all God has shown me but this is one thing.

]]> By: Chris http://www.someguyandhismac.com/2007/11/22/thanks-giving-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Chris Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:51:42 +0000 http://www.someguyandhismac.com/2007/11/22/thanks-giving-part-1/#comment-29 Thanks. I'm not saying God is "out to get us" but I think human perception is this way. That we mess up, God is going to wreck havoc in and on our lives and just leave us for waste. I really don't think this is the case. I also am not saying God turn's a blind eye. I think He deals lovingly with us in a manor of discipline. I'm not saying either that this is the case for everyone. It is for me. I don't know why or how I have this idea that because I don't say...read my bible for a couple days and sin a couple times, etc. Then God is angry with me and that He is going to hold this against me now and down the road. That I am going to have to work double time to get on God's "good side". I don't think that simply is the case. This is why I am thankful. God is teaching me this. I can't do anything to be "approving" or find "favor". Its already been done through the shed blood of Christ. I think Satan uses guilt and shame against us to make us think God is something He really is not and thus this perception is formed. God's rebuking and discipline is in Love and He desires us to grow from this. Human perspective makes us think its really worse and that it should be, because we can't see the refining process until we go through it and can look back on it. I think we as humans though tend to cling to the "sinner", rather than the Saint. So what are you thankful for that God has shown you? Thanks. I’m not saying God is “out to get us” but I think human perception is this way. That we mess up, God is going to wreck havoc in and on our lives and just leave us for waste. I really don’t think this is the case. I also am not saying God turn’s a blind eye. I think He deals lovingly with us in a manor of discipline. I’m not saying either that this is the case for everyone. It is for me. I don’t know why or how I have this idea that because I don’t say…read my bible for a couple days and sin a couple times, etc. Then God is angry with me and that He is going to hold this against me now and down the road. That I am going to have to work double time to get on God’s “good side”. I don’t think that simply is the case. This is why I am thankful. God is teaching me this. I can’t do anything to be “approving” or find “favor”. Its already been done through the shed blood of Christ. I think Satan uses guilt and shame against us to make us think God is something He really is not and thus this perception is formed. God’s rebuking and discipline is in Love and He desires us to grow from this. Human perspective makes us think its really worse and that it should be, because we can’t see the refining process until we go through it and can look back on it. I think we as humans though tend to cling to the “sinner”, rather than the Saint. So what are you thankful for that God has shown you?

]]> By: Josh http://www.someguyandhismac.com/2007/11/22/thanks-giving-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Josh Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:15:45 +0000 http://www.someguyandhismac.com/2007/11/22/thanks-giving-part-1/#comment-26 This is an interesting post. I dont think God has this "I am out to get you mentality" but I also know that God does not look at sin lightly. Is sin past present and future forgiven on the cross of calvary absolutely. But does that mean that if I sin as a Christian God turns a blind eye or does not see it absolutely not. There are times that God does bring rebuke and discipline into the Christians life which can be traced all the way from the Old Testament to the New Testament. From the Old Testament when he had to rebuke the Israelites time and time again and to the New Testament when He allowed persecution to come to the church because of their refusal to obey him. This is all part of being a father sometimes we must discipline. If we refuse to discipline then we do not love. God brings discipline because of his love and we bring obedience because of our love, and not because we are afraid God will get us. We are indeed free from the power of sin, and the penalty of sin but not the presence of sin. There are times and will continue to be times that God disciplines us but that does not negate His love for us it only shows it all the more. Hebrew 12:1-6. Just my thoughts. This is an interesting post. I dont think God has this “I am out to get you mentality” but I also know that God does not look at sin lightly. Is sin past present and future forgiven on the cross of calvary absolutely. But does that mean that if I sin as a Christian God turns a blind eye or does not see it absolutely not. There are times that God does bring rebuke and discipline into the Christians life which can be traced all the way from the Old Testament to the New Testament. From the Old Testament when he had to rebuke the Israelites time and time again and to the New Testament when He allowed persecution to come to the church because of their refusal to obey him. This is all part of being a father sometimes we must discipline. If we refuse to discipline then we do not love. God brings discipline because of his love and we bring obedience because of our love, and not because we are afraid God will get us. We are indeed free from the power of sin, and the penalty of sin but not the presence of sin. There are times and will continue to be times that God disciplines us but that does not negate His love for us it only shows it all the more. Hebrew 12:1-6. Just my thoughts.

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