what if
What if when people got saved, they realized that all the limitations of their past life were undone?
What if someone believed on Jesus for the first time, and no one was there to teach them that the rest of their earthly existence was going to be a bitter inner struggle to not do bad things they somehow still really want to do? What if the thrill of complete forgiveness for every wrong thing lasted beyond the “honeymoon;” and what if that thrill turned into a life of overwhelming pure appetites and urges and desires and passions?
What if someone whose eyes were just opened to see the eternal life in Jesus wasn’t taken aside and shown how all the most powerful promises in the Bible were really either expired or just figurative or meant for the sweet by-and-by? What if someone experienced the miracle of salvation and then continued to pray with the same innocent faith that everything they asked God for was really theirs?
What if the life of God in you didn’t have to be filtered through what you thought was possible and excusable and logical before you met Jesus; what if it was all allowed to remain a miracle like it started?
~I think pancakes are thick. I keep running this over in my mind. Not finished with it yet, but I figured I’d shoot back some of the batter that has lumps in it (I probably read the recipe wrong and didn’t mix right) for shared running over.
~My first reaction was, “we can’t lie to them!….wait….doh!…..What would we be lying about?!”
~Then, “What about us that have grown up (physically, among other ways) in Christianity?” I grew up in this manner and my “honeymoon” came way further along after the “marriage”. I was used to living without the “feelings”. I had seen the feelings used inapropriatly for bragging rights. I didn’t want a reason to brag. Once God finally got it through my over-self-controlled-will that I want/neeed! everything He has for me, then I accepted then the rest fell into place. I forgot about “them”(
~…woops….I guess I’m long winded….
~Sorry
~Basically, I want to say that we have to know what the promises of the Bible are saying before we teach them to others. We won’t have to worry about this what if, if we just read the Word, pray, seek wise council, and let the Lord show us when what is. Then there won’t be any false promises, crushing of hopes, or false stoppage of God working!
forgetting about “them” is where it gets good. as soon as you really fall in love with someone, you don’t care what anybody else thinks about it. if what everybody else thinks about you or who you’re in love with means more to you than being in love, you’re not really in love.
but when the intensity of the relationship starts to overwhelm your self-consciousness…that’s when you start living.
“but when the intensity of the relationship starts to overwhelm your self-consciousness…that’s when you start living.”
I want that so badly.
“as soon as you really fall in love with someone, you don’t care what anybody else thinks about it.”
…and that, but can’t seem to find either.