tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087443128769701074.post6267536850930498584..comments2023-05-20T08:15:32.309-07:00Comments on Somewhere in my Memory: Refocusing GraceMattityahuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549061279827942555noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087443128769701074.post-55454293108062574612008-07-07T19:58:00.000-07:002008-07-07T19:58:00.000-07:00Hey, thanks, Matthew for your words of encourageme...Hey, thanks, Matthew for your words of encouragement. I'm glad to know my blog may be helping another to sort through the deception! <BR/><BR/>You know, it is the hardest thing to wrap our little minds around the fact that He just wants us. No growth necessary. I can hardly fathom that, and yet my spirit knows it. I am a child, created for nothing more than love. Until I am sufficiently washed in His love, I will keep trying to clean myself up for Him. <BR/><BR/>Whoever knew it would be so hard to just BE! He did all the doing that would ever need to be done. It's done. Finished. Now we get to walk in it, and as we do, people will, undoubtedly recognize His hand all over our life. They will be attracted to us like a magnet, kinda like they were to Jesus, because love will be oozing from our very pores.<BR/><BR/>You never have to have another prepared word... ever. He promised He'd give 'em to you, the moment you need them. So, sit back and relax. Put Him to the test! I dare you to do NOTHING!!Free Spirithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00942692680513002360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087443128769701074.post-81222998399918861852008-07-06T16:43:00.000-07:002008-07-06T16:43:00.000-07:00Matt!Obligation to do something will never bring s...Matt!<BR/><BR/>Obligation to do something will never bring someone closer to God. It seems like it will, but doing something for God because one feels obligated to do so, will never bring them closer to Father. I think if you don't feel like doing something and it borderlines obligation and force, than it's not God! He doesn't work like that! There is freedom in living for God without the angst to conform to what 'christians should do'. I have been thinking about this lately! Learning how to just BE and not do all the time! It gets so exhausting to just do and do without a real desire or purpose behind it other than the pressure to conform to this so called christian life. Where is God in that?! I am glad you wrote a post about this, it has really been on my mind a lot lately!<BR/><BR/>In Freedom, Nicole!Nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00043902043758568457noreply@blogger.com