I lied to you....
I did... I really did... I lied to you for about 30 years... that's why I took it all back last time... I need to start telling the truth instead... :)
Remember what I said....? "So I want to take back those words I use to say… it was my fault… I did lead you to believe it was easy…. when it isn’t… that was a deception… I take it all back… the truth is that the way is hard… the gate is narrow... few there be that find it… it is the way of the cross… it brings me to Calvary where I die on that cross in Jesus… where I have no testimony... only His life… where nothing depends upon me… everything depends on Him… where I am nothing and He is everything… where I want only what He wants… "
I might just see if I can take it back one lie at a time... that could take a whole lot-a-bunch of Musings.... :)
Hopefully... by this time... we have established that what a lie is... is simply Satan taking something that is true.... and twisting it... making it a lie.... somehow or other we seem to be attracted to believing the lie rather than believing the truth... might just be that the lie is a little more attractive to me than the truth?..... hmmmm
The very first truth (then twisted into a lie) that I heard (and then passed along to others) was this: My life was a total mess because I was running my own life instead of letting God run my life.... the way to turn that around was to let God run my life and then of course my life would no longer be a mess..... life will be so easy now... a piece of cake... everything will go right now instead of going wrong... that was the twist... the second part.... the happily ever after no longer mess part... everything is going to go right now part....that second part is actually a process... and when I listened to all of the other twistings of truth that followed the first twisting... it really slowed down the process for me... 40 years later... I am finally discovering a little bit about how the thing really works...
Maybe I can help to expedite the process for others a little....by taking back the twists... by saying that life will not be easy... it will be very hard... except now we can understand why... now we can understand that the truth is....we are born physically into a war.... a very real war... with a very real enemy... the only reason we are still alive is because of God's mercy... when we finally turn over our lives to Him, it doesn't get easier... it gets even more difficult.... and the only reason we stay alive is still the same reason... it's still because of His mercy... oh yes... and by the way... He has a plan... the plan is actutally the process... the plan is to get me to the point "where I am nothing and He is everything… where I want only what He wants… "
We'll talk about what that looks like maybe next time.
:)
Remember what I said....? "So I want to take back those words I use to say… it was my fault… I did lead you to believe it was easy…. when it isn’t… that was a deception… I take it all back… the truth is that the way is hard… the gate is narrow... few there be that find it… it is the way of the cross… it brings me to Calvary where I die on that cross in Jesus… where I have no testimony... only His life… where nothing depends upon me… everything depends on Him… where I am nothing and He is everything… where I want only what He wants… "
I might just see if I can take it back one lie at a time... that could take a whole lot-a-bunch of Musings.... :)
Hopefully... by this time... we have established that what a lie is... is simply Satan taking something that is true.... and twisting it... making it a lie.... somehow or other we seem to be attracted to believing the lie rather than believing the truth... might just be that the lie is a little more attractive to me than the truth?..... hmmmm
The very first truth (then twisted into a lie) that I heard (and then passed along to others) was this: My life was a total mess because I was running my own life instead of letting God run my life.... the way to turn that around was to let God run my life and then of course my life would no longer be a mess..... life will be so easy now... a piece of cake... everything will go right now instead of going wrong... that was the twist... the second part.... the happily ever after no longer mess part... everything is going to go right now part....that second part is actually a process... and when I listened to all of the other twistings of truth that followed the first twisting... it really slowed down the process for me... 40 years later... I am finally discovering a little bit about how the thing really works...
Maybe I can help to expedite the process for others a little....by taking back the twists... by saying that life will not be easy... it will be very hard... except now we can understand why... now we can understand that the truth is....we are born physically into a war.... a very real war... with a very real enemy... the only reason we are still alive is because of God's mercy... when we finally turn over our lives to Him, it doesn't get easier... it gets even more difficult.... and the only reason we stay alive is still the same reason... it's still because of His mercy... oh yes... and by the way... He has a plan... the plan is actutally the process... the plan is to get me to the point "where I am nothing and He is everything… where I want only what He wants… "
We'll talk about what that looks like maybe next time.
:)
