tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507235926229522907.post2309772390123865891..comments2023-09-28T06:26:33.123-06:00Comments on Sacred Space--God With Us!: When Tomorrow Never ComesGreat Googly Moogly!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13348645248449285718noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507235926229522907.post-41676010999171394362009-04-08T10:21:00.000-06:002009-04-08T10:21:00.000-06:00Thanks Greg,That's a question I'm sure all of us c...Thanks Greg,<BR/><BR/>That's a question I'm sure all of us can ask ourselves and not be confident of a positive answer. It's similar to our continuing struggle with sin: we see sin in our lives (sometimes more often than we can imagine) and have to fight within ourselves to keep from being overly depressed or to give up the fight altogether!<BR/><BR/>But the one thing that we can always be confident in is God Himself! I don't think we can ever feel like we've been as faithful as we can be either in our Gospel witness or in our Gospel living (which is one and the same thing, really); but God is always faithful <B>to us</B> as our Father and <B>through us</B> as His redeemed people who are Light and Salt in the world.<BR/><BR/>This is why I keep stressing our <B>being</B> rather than our <B>doing</B> when we consider our lives in this world. We can never <B>do</B> enough to be satisfied...can we?<BR/><BR/>I think if we purpose to live our lives as Children in our <B>being who we are</B> rather than in our <B>doing what we (think) we should be doing</B>, then we won't be looking so much at the things that we are doing <B>for</B> God and then getting depressed that we're not doing enough (and therefore purpose to do more), but rather we'll be looking at our <B>relationship with</B> God--not if we <B>have one</B> (we have the Spirit testifying to us that we are Children of God!), but how <B>intimate</B> is our relationship with the Person that we call our Father!.<BR/><BR/>I don't believe I've created a false dichotomy between <B>being</B> and <B>doing</B>...I'm not pitting them against each other. I believe the Scripture teaches that it is our <B>being</B> that results in our <B>doing</B>. In other words, as our relationship with our Father grows in intimacy as Children with a Father, then our lives will reflect that relationship <B>in</B> the things we do and say. And in this way, we don't have to question whether we are <B>doing</B> enough to please our Father because His pleasure is in our desire for intimacy with Him as His Children. We can simply <B>live</B> our lives as His Children and be confident that our lives are pleasing to Him and accomplishing His purpose and will in the world!<BR/><BR/>I know...easier said than done (pun <B>intended</B>)! But this is the only way to live liberated lives. Our confidence is in Him and the work that He is doing <B>in</B> us by the Spirit.<BR/><BR/>Actually, the finally post in my series "How Are We To Live?" will be addressing this very issue.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comment and the motivating question--a question we all struggle with!<BR/><BR/>GGMGreat Googly Moogly!https://www.blogger.com/profile/13348645248449285718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507235926229522907.post-6098373578381190262009-04-08T02:46:00.000-06:002009-04-08T02:46:00.000-06:00That is a sweet poem, Googly. I have yet to experi...That is a sweet poem, Googly. I have yet to experience a deep loss like that, and what worries me more is that many people I know are not saved. Am I doing enough to show them the Way Home?Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01028914792240238768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507235926229522907.post-6558010537118686232009-04-03T11:21:00.000-06:002009-04-03T11:21:00.000-06:00Thanks for reading...and I agree:"Thank God for Go...Thanks for reading...and I agree:<BR/><BR/><B><I>"Thank God for God's everlasting Kingdom. (John 3: 16, Revelation 21-22)."</I></B><BR/><BR/>GGMGreat Googly Moogly!https://www.blogger.com/profile/13348645248449285718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507235926229522907.post-111854630690985072009-04-03T00:31:00.000-06:002009-04-03T00:31:00.000-06:00'And that I had to leave behindAll those I dearly ...'And that I had to leave behind<BR/>All those I dearly love.<BR/>But as I turned to walk away<BR/>A tear fell from my eye;<BR/>For all my life I'd always thought<BR/>I didn't want to die.'<BR/><BR/>The last five years the number of persons I know that have died, and not all of them old, has greatly increased.<BR/><BR/>Thank God for God's everlasting Kingdom. (John 3: 16, Revelation 21-22).Dr. Russell Norman Murrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06703130625190233670noreply@blogger.com