Comments on A Life of Passion: The Struggle Worth Having

thanks for both the post and the comments. it rea...

2010-01-14T05:09:15.104-06:00

thanks for both the post and the comments. it really captures how i think most of us feel if we're being at all honest. I don't think I can imagine or visualize where the bar is to live like Christ, it's so beyond my comprehension. on those days i can get rid of all the 'i' and 'me' junk, i find i don't worry or think about it much.

this thread reminds me of how much i'm looking forward to the next SoulyBusiness retreat! I've met men there that are light years ahead of where I'd like to be as as Christians, husbands, and fathers and yet they authentically and freely admit they themselves have light years to go. This, more than any church attendance has given me the hope, strength, and faith that God is working on me, in me, and through me.

Peace and thanks.

That's the very amazing, albeit uncomfortable, thi...

2010-01-12T20:03:29.448-06:00

That's the very amazing, albeit uncomfortable, thing about grace. There isn't any way for ANY of us to deserve the medal that's been given. It is so counter to our achievement culture - which as you and I both know, generates both positive and negative results - to accept a gift of acceptance, love, and salvation, when there is really nothing we have done, nor will ever do, to deserve it.

That is why I believe faith in Christ and salvation is a daily occurrence. Not just a one-time acceptance and then you're good. True, salvation, if we believe the Bible, is granted to those who TRULY bend their knee, but it is so critical for us to daily acknowledge the one who did save us, and using that image and role modeling for us to have our lives impact others with what we hope is but a small equivalency to the insurmountable gift of the cross. Should we choose to believe that.

Without that, our daily striving for achievement of God's satisfaction with us and what we do will forever be left unfulfilled. Dare I say small steps of victory without a final triumph.

I think I'm honored. God issued me discernment. A...

2010-01-12T17:02:14.329-06:00

I think I'm honored.

God issued me discernment. And, with it a keen desire to live my life in a way that glorifies everything that I can recognize around me. I used to refer to this as living my life like Christ. But, as time went by I felt like that was similar to wearing a medal I had not earned. There is, not so simply, a bar, some how set.

So, living by that code, while remaining uncertain about, how and where, I might end-up sometimes feels like standing on the ledge preparing to tower jump.

But, some how I think I'm going to make it - because it wasn't me that created wind that can be used to offset gravity.

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