I am both inspired and distressed sometimes when I think about all of this I could use a hug. I want to help folks.
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The more I try to be good the more I see how I am not. I also see how I have changed.
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Just follow His example."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
"Forgiveness is the way of love." Gary Chapman
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Last edited by rogue06; 08-16-2019, 05:27 AM.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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By the way, when you say "The more I try to be good the more I see how I am not", you're in pretty good company.
Who will deliver you from this, little brother? The same Jesus Christ our Lord who delivered Paul.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostBy the way, when you say "The more I try to be good the more I see how I am not", you're in pretty good company.
Who will deliver you from this, little brother? The same Jesus Christ our Lord who delivered Paul.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostYup. I know all too well just how much I don't deserve His grace so for several years I tried to make myself more worthy -- and continued to fail miserably. Finally I admitted to myself what I already knew, that I'd never be worthy and asked Jesus to save me. Well, go figure, since then I have become a better person (still have a LONG ways to go). What I failed so badly at on my own I am doing better at with His help.
The devil will always minimize the sin to get you to do it
Then he'll maximize it when you've done it to keep you in chains
( or something to that effect - go with the intent, rather than the wording )The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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"That is why the Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to he good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or—if they think there is not—at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we arc good, but that God will make us good because He loves us..." (C.S. Lewis)
"Oh! look not after great things: small breathings, small desires after the Lord, if true and pure, are sweet beginnings of life. You must become a child, you must lose your own will quite by degrees. You must wait for life to be measured out by the Father, and be content with what proportion, and at what time, He shall please to measure. Oh! be little, be little, and then you will be content with little; and if you feel now and then a check or a secret smiting, in that is the Father's love; be not over wise, nor over eager in your own willing, running, and desiring, and by degrees come to the knowledge of your Guide, who will lead you step by step in the path of life, and teach you to follow, and in His own season powerfully judge that which cannot nor will not follow. Be still, and wait for light and strength." (Isaac Penington)
Blessing and grace and a ,
Lee"What I pray of you is, to keep your eye upon Him, for that is everything. Do you say, 'How am I to keep my eye on Him?' I reply, keep your eye off everything else, and you will soon see Him. All depends on the eye of faith being kept on Him. How simple it is!" (J.B. Stoney)
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