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When God Doesn’t Rescue
Posted by: | CommentsEver wondered why God would refuse to rescue you when you are going through the most difficult time of your life?
A few months ago, I found myself in the worst storm of my life. The waters raged all around me. They filled my boat. The wind blew violently. The boat of my life creaked and groaned and at times, barely stayed afloat during the storm. The wind and water were thunderously loud. I could hear no voice above the noise. Many days, I was unable to even call Jesus’ name to ask for rescue. I felt so abandoned by God that I couldn’t even read my Bible because it felt so painful to look into the Word I had lived by, my most precious manna, and feel it had failed me. I couldn’t listen to the music of worship because it reminded me of the intimacy I had once felt with God and other people I cared for. Prayer seemed impossible because I felt I no longer knew how – the ways I had prayed before must have been wrong or inadequate. And many days, I felt so betrayed by God Himself that I was unsure whether or not He was a reality.
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Weight Loss and Christianity
Posted by: | CommentsWeight Loss and Christianity
My children love to tease me about my endless knowledge that I am forever offering to them with the precursor, “I just read about that in an article.” Oh, that is all it takes to get them going. “We know, Mom, you read another article.” (moan, groan, laugh, snicker) I can’t help it; I love to read articles! And I am almost always reading something. It has been my lifelong pastime. So today, I was reading an article (go ahead and smile), and I was amazed at how much these weight loss principles parallel the Christian life. Now, you’re really smiling, aren’t you? Just check it out!
Here’s Debbie Rocker on Yahoo! Health on “Burn the Fat, Keep it Off” with my added comments are in italics.
1. Take a good hard look at your past attempts and assess what is realistic and what is just too unlikely for you to sustain? How many times have our past attempts to live victoriously failed? Do we need to assess them and find out what Jesus is really asking us to do and what is just religion?
2. Don’t be hard on yourself about the past, it’s done, it’s gone, it’s over, but useful for informing the future. You can apply this one!
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God’s Good Anger
Posted by: | Comments(I didn’t realize I was posting this on 9-11. What an appropriate contrast of unrighteous anger and righteous anger.)
Nahum 1:2-7
2 God’s Wrath on His Enemies
God is jealous, and the Lord avenges;
The Lord avenges and is furious.
The Lord will take vengeance on His adversaries,
And He reserves wrath for His enemies;
3 The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,
And will not at all acquit the wicked.
The Lord has His way
In the whirlwind and in the storm,
And the clouds are the dust of His feet.
4 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry,
And dries up all the rivers.
Bashan and Carmel wither,
And the flower of Lebanon wilts.
5 The mountains quake before Him,
The hills melt,
And the earth heaves at His presence,
Yes, the world and all who dwell in it.
6 Who can stand before His indignation?
And who can endure the fierceness of His anger?
His fury is poured out like fire,
And the rocks are thrown down by Him.
7 The Lord is good,
A stronghold in the day of trouble;
And He knows those who trust in Him.
Have you ever really looked at the strong responses of God in this passage? Wrath, jealousy, vengeance, fury, wrath, anger, great power, whirlwinds, storms, rebuke, seas and rivers drying up, flowers wilting, mountains quaking, hills melting, the earth heaving, indignation, fierce anger, pouring out fury like fire, throwing rocks and then…
there is this evaluation –
the Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble.
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