Ephesian 2: 1-6 It wasn't so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It's a wonder God didn't lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.
So much to BE grateful of and for ~ I choose to live in worry and control..??....to want what You want means to surrender the illusion of control & face, be grateful for the reality of the life You give....clear and yet not the whole......Ecc. 3: 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere HIM.
- I am also looking for a discussion and I think there is something that I don't know about having them...my desire for a discussion is born of this question can you help me or teach me how to better illicit such a discussion....Where/when do children get the 'relationship' (ie it's not about religion it's about relationship with God with Christ) piece? Can they get it as children, teens/preteens….young adults? Having raised ours without that tension just wondering what it looks like for our next generation? When do they understand, become responsible for building their own relationship with Christ, when do they get the yearning and how do we help them there ? Help them to see that as in every relationship there's some work involved, some sacrifice, some.....any discussion here appreciated.
- And for those who don't believe when do they release their children into responsibility or the freedom of their own journeys?
- I don't know if these make sense.....
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Can I just add a little something here from my experience? Your question struck a chord with me because I owe so much of my sense of who God is and who I am and what is REAL to my parents and grandparents. It was never what they said - I always knew I couldn't argue with what they HAD. My hunger has so much grown out of what I've seen them enjoy and struggle toward.
Your kids and grandkids will be hungry for the Christ you are hungry for, too.
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