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It's all about You, Jesus."-Heart of Worship
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1 John 5:3-4New International Version (NIV)
3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
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This saying is something that I came up with while trying to encourage a friend of mine this pat week. My friend was having a hard time sharing a "mistake" that was made while out in the woods. Let's just say my friend missed a deer. My friend didn't know whether to tell the story about how it was missed or not but my friend went ahead and shared it in hopes that someone else needed to hear it too. My friend was unsure, just for that moment, if he wanted to be real and that is where I came up with this saying.
It is true about my friend. When you have given up so much, why not keep being real, right? If it has worked so far then why stop now. My friend hasn't missed a shot in quite awhile so it is understandable to be upset. When you don't want to be like the other people around you, then you have to be real because you know that the other people aren't being that. That's not what the world is known for today.
I added the word "Love" in and the last sentence in this entry because it just made more since and it was deeper then I wanted to be with my friend but it is true. If you want to love, you have to learn to be real with the person you like/love and the others around you like their family. That is something that I am still working on everyday and it is an everyday process for sure. Loving people is what God wants us to do. Love, I thought, was always a kind of ministry that we could show off everyday. I mean what better way for people to know that we are God's children by us showing love to them. I will say too that my friend's show is God-based because my friend is a firm believer in Him and my friend will even say that it is all done for God and no one else. That is how we should live everyday life. We should live it as all for and about God and no one else.
I put the verse in this entry because I love it. I love where it says that we can overcome. That His commands shouldn't be burdensome. In fact, His commands should makes us joyful if we do it out of Love for Him and others. It is not burdensome to obey His commands. It might be hard at times. Yes, but not burdensome. It should bring us joy that He even trusts and believes and loves us enough to give us those commands. If God doesn't mean for His commands to be burdensome, then He wants us to have joy everyday. It should bring us pleasure and happiness and joy to obey His commands and to have the kind of faith we have in Him.
Yes, it can be hard at times to live out His commands and of Love but then we look back to see what God has done for us and that is when the joy comes and overwhelms us. We can have joy because we know who holds everything in our lives if we put our lives in Him. It is just like the saying above but I think this is a simpler and straighter way to put it:
"You have worked too hard to throw everything away in this one moment that you don't feel like being real, so why not look at it with joy in some way and share it with your friends or wait. No matter what happens, always remember that you chose that path so don't go blaming someone else or even God."
This saying is something that I came up with while trying to encourage a friend of mine this pat week. My friend was having a hard time sharing a "mistake" that was made while out in the woods. Let's just say my friend missed a deer. My friend didn't know whether to tell the story about how it was missed or not but my friend went ahead and shared it in hopes that someone else needed to hear it too. My friend was unsure, just for that moment, if he wanted to be real and that is where I came up with this saying.
It is true about my friend. When you have given up so much, why not keep being real, right? If it has worked so far then why stop now. My friend hasn't missed a shot in quite awhile so it is understandable to be upset. When you don't want to be like the other people around you, then you have to be real because you know that the other people aren't being that. That's not what the world is known for today.
I added the word "Love" in and the last sentence in this entry because it just made more since and it was deeper then I wanted to be with my friend but it is true. If you want to love, you have to learn to be real with the person you like/love and the others around you like their family. That is something that I am still working on everyday and it is an everyday process for sure. Loving people is what God wants us to do. Love, I thought, was always a kind of ministry that we could show off everyday. I mean what better way for people to know that we are God's children by us showing love to them. I will say too that my friend's show is God-based because my friend is a firm believer in Him and my friend will even say that it is all done for God and no one else. That is how we should live everyday life. We should live it as all for and about God and no one else.
I put the verse in this entry because I love it. I love where it says that we can overcome. That His commands shouldn't be burdensome. In fact, His commands should makes us joyful if we do it out of Love for Him and others. It is not burdensome to obey His commands. It might be hard at times. Yes, but not burdensome. It should bring us joy that He even trusts and believes and loves us enough to give us those commands. If God doesn't mean for His commands to be burdensome, then He wants us to have joy everyday. It should bring us pleasure and happiness and joy to obey His commands and to have the kind of faith we have in Him.
Yes, it can be hard at times to live out His commands and of Love but then we look back to see what God has done for us and that is when the joy comes and overwhelms us. We can have joy because we know who holds everything in our lives if we put our lives in Him. It is just like the saying above but I think this is a simpler and straighter way to put it:
"You have worked too hard to throw everything away in this one moment that you don't feel like being real, so why not look at it with joy in some way and share it with your friends or wait. No matter what happens, always remember that you chose that path so don't go blaming someone else or even God."
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