"Don't stick out your tongue, a bee may sting it!"
Yes, we've heard these things, but have we believed them??
People don't have their face freeze, but they do develop frown lines.
And my Mom's experience would almost make one believe that I had worded the two sayings wrong, having mixed them up. Maybe it should have been, "Don't stick out your tongue, it may freeze!"
Mom did not stick out her tongue out of rudeness, but out of curiosity. Of course, she wasn't my Mom yet ...she was just a little girl. There was some nice shiny ice on the swing set pole, and she decided to lick it. The pole decided to keep part of the flesh of her touch as a souvenir. Thankfully, tongues do heal quickly ...it's only the damage they do to others that is quite another thing. That last part Mom & Dad taught me very well.
Well, if I got the first saying and second saying mixed up, I'll just have to attempt to put together what is left. "Don't frown like that or someday you may get stung!"
Well, frowning does give a rather stinging commentary on how we may feel about others, or how they may feel about us. Eventually, both are offended ...but, frowning shouldn't offend. Frowning rather is more how we think of ourselves ...not so much in view of the world around us, but with our view of what God has for us in this world.
What God has for us in this world ...is more about our grateful perspective. God gave us a gift, yet we don't really accept the gift if we don't look inside. The gift is not the package, it is what is inside ...and ultimately inside us. God send us Jesus.
After acknowledging the depth of this, our gratitude should compel us to do what most anyone does when they receive a gift that they think is the very best gift a person can have ...they want to tell others, so they can have it too.
The true blessing is in telling others ...not in looking for material gifts, as if that continues to prove love. Jesus died for us ...there is no more proof needed, unless we perhaps want to prove how grateful we are. We don't necessarily have to prove it ...but we shouldn't be an example others attempt to use to disprove it.
I believe that there is a thing called sin ...and I am not exempt from it. I believe that I am not only saved because Jesus came ...I believe I needed saving, and that's why Jesus came.
Usually someone needs help, and someone happens to come along to help. The does not usually come before the problem. Yet, I am the problem ...I am a problem, because I sin. But, Jesus has that covered.
There is no sane argument that can say I am not saved because I am a sinner. The true problem in thinking where most people get up their dander with dialogue ...is with the definition of sin, and not whether we sin, but what we attempt to justify as not sin.
No one would say they are saved, and they are proud of their sin ...rather they would say it is not sin, that which they do not want to change.
Sin is a direction, it is active, and it has momentum. Sin is moving away from God. We say, God is everywhere, so we can't possibly move away from Him. Certainly we cannot hide from Him, but we can move away from following what He wants us to do and how He wants us to live.
Mom did not stick out her tongue out of rudeness, but out of curiosity. Of course, she wasn't my Mom yet ...she was just a little girl. There was some nice shiny ice on the swing set pole, and she decided to lick it. The pole decided to keep part of the flesh of her touch as a souvenir. Thankfully, tongues do heal quickly ...it's only the damage they do to others that is quite another thing. That last part Mom & Dad taught me very well.
Well, if I got the first saying and second saying mixed up, I'll just have to attempt to put together what is left. "Don't frown like that or someday you may get stung!"
Well, frowning does give a rather stinging commentary on how we may feel about others, or how they may feel about us. Eventually, both are offended ...but, frowning shouldn't offend. Frowning rather is more how we think of ourselves ...not so much in view of the world around us, but with our view of what God has for us in this world.
What God has for us in this world ...is more about our grateful perspective. God gave us a gift, yet we don't really accept the gift if we don't look inside. The gift is not the package, it is what is inside ...and ultimately inside us. God send us Jesus.
After acknowledging the depth of this, our gratitude should compel us to do what most anyone does when they receive a gift that they think is the very best gift a person can have ...they want to tell others, so they can have it too.
The true blessing is in telling others ...not in looking for material gifts, as if that continues to prove love. Jesus died for us ...there is no more proof needed, unless we perhaps want to prove how grateful we are. We don't necessarily have to prove it ...but we shouldn't be an example others attempt to use to disprove it.
I believe that there is a thing called sin ...and I am not exempt from it. I believe that I am not only saved because Jesus came ...I believe I needed saving, and that's why Jesus came.
Usually someone needs help, and someone happens to come along to help. The does not usually come before the problem. Yet, I am the problem ...I am a problem, because I sin. But, Jesus has that covered.
There is no sane argument that can say I am not saved because I am a sinner. The true problem in thinking where most people get up their dander with dialogue ...is with the definition of sin, and not whether we sin, but what we attempt to justify as not sin.
No one would say they are saved, and they are proud of their sin ...rather they would say it is not sin, that which they do not want to change.
Sin is a direction, it is active, and it has momentum. Sin is moving away from God. We say, God is everywhere, so we can't possibly move away from Him. Certainly we cannot hide from Him, but we can move away from following what He wants us to do and how He wants us to live.
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