QUESTIONS?




We must continually remind ourselves of the purpose of life. We are not destined to happiness, nor to health, but to holiness. Today we have far too many desires and interests, and our lives are being consumed and wasted by them. Many of them may be right, noble, and good, and may later be fulfilled, but in the meantime God must cause their importance to us to decrease. The only thing that truly matters is whether a person will accept the God who will make him holy. At all costs, a person must have the right relationship with God.
Do I believe I need to be holy? Do I believe that God can come into me and make me holy? If through your preaching you convince me that I am unholy, I then resent your preaching. The preaching of the gospel awakens an intense resentment because it is designed to reveal my unholiness, but it also awakens an intense yearning and desire within me. God has only one intended destiny for mankind— holiness. His only goal is to produce saints. God is not some eternal blessing-machine for people to use, and He did not come to save us out of pity— He came to save us because He created us to be holy. Atonement through the Cross of Christ means that God can put me back into perfect oneness with Himself through the death of Jesus Christ, without a trace of anything coming between us any longer.
Never tolerate, because of sympathy for yourself or for others, any practice that is not in keeping with a holy God. Holiness means absolute purity of your walk before God, the words coming from your mouth, and every thought in your mind— placing every detail of your life under the scrutiny of God Himself. Holiness is not simply what God gives me, but what God has given me that is being exhibited in my life." -Oswald Chambers



Questions
1. So does this mean that we shouldn't ask God to get better when suffering because we are called to love him for him and not what he can do for us? We hear that more 'mature' prayers wont just be asking God to get out of suffering because strong Christians can find joy in God amidst suffering and know that God can still be glorified even IN it. So their suffering leads them to worship. ... But, what if I don't FEEL that way. What if I feel defeated and tired and that it seems cruel of God not to hear our cries and heal when so easily could? I want to give up. It would prob mean what i know to be true about trusting God and believing he is good and loving despite my circumstances. I dont know how to truly believe that. Walk with God,pray read? and then I feel it? maybe? 

2. What if I feel like decisions I made when I wasn't following God as closely were so completely wrong, and I want to change them now, but doing so would require sin? How can I know that I'm in God's will when I was so screwed up and depressed and unable to understand what it REALLY meant to follow Him or who He really was? What if I am in circumstances because I was following a legalistic Gospel. When do I deny my affinities? When do I nurture them? When do I deny myself? When is it good to do that in which I delight?

Comments

JONG PHOTO said…
I feel like 1 Peter 1 answers all your questions and comments on your blurb.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+1&version=ESV
dang34 said…
sounds vaguely familiar hmmm
I left out all good specific examples :)

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