tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671342.post113710404585690038..comments2023-04-26T09:10:06.306-07:00Comments on emerging journey: I will drive your purpose.Emergingjourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839056932755160338noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671342.post-1137224362850647852006-01-13T23:39:00.000-08:002006-01-13T23:39:00.000-08:00Just a few of my thoughts:I always hated hearing s...Just a few of my thoughts:<BR/><BR/>I always hated hearing someone talk about how God was leading us, etc., because I believe that I am the one who is in control of my actions & thoughts. I know God is with us & I believe He may interfere with our lives for the best or worst. I think any hardship, is a challenge of faith and sometimes it may be just something bad happening to us.<BR/><BR/>For example, the other day, I banged my leg into a chair in the dark, which hurt like heck and I mumbled the s word a few times. I believe that might have been God testing me and I failed or mabey He just wanted me to have a bruise? I don't know.<BR/><BR/>But I hated being indirectly called a puppet, which angered me and then made me think. I know God is in my heart and has done something gradually in my life to change it. I can't even say whether or not it was me, who did the changing, God or my parents & family or all the above. I know He used my parents mostly to help me. I used to be angry at my parents for lots of things, but I see now, it was for the best and I'm not angry at them anymore. I don't think God controlled them to help me, but He probably either put something in their hearts to do something or He knew that they would already do something, so He just let it happen. I do believe, that prayer can change things. God may change His mind and let someone live, when they were going to die, but because someone prayed, things were altered.<BR/><BR/>I don't know why God lets horrible situations happen to innocent people & animals, but I guess we just have to trust God.<BR/><BR/>"...how does a god plan for things when we have a choice in the matter?"<BR/><BR/>God knows everything we think, everywhere we go, will go, will do, people we'll meet, etc., all, far before our time. I think He gives us chances and opportunities and tests, which we can take, refuse, pass, fail(and if we fail, I believe in second+ chances). How do we know exactly what God wants us to do? I always also hated how people would say, "Well, I prayed to God about it and He gave me an answer." God never physically spoke to them, so I guess I have to believe God just put something in their heart, that they came to that decision, but that God had a hand in showing them the right choice. But then, a better way to say that, would be, "I prayed to God and I came to this conclusion, having faith in God that it is the right one." Now, mabey, the choice they came to, might not be what God wanted after all.<BR/><BR/>I'm far more comfortable being a servant to God than a slave.<BR/><BR/>"No, there is more to god than just creating mindless servants to do what he wants, to fill his desires. God is a lover."<BR/><BR/>I agree.Pattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07760407650440015397noreply@blogger.com