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momentsbeforemass · 10 months

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Too small

(for someone who is struggling with who God really is)

For many of us, most of us, our God is too small.

Not that God Himself actually is too small.

But our concept of God? The version of God that we have created for ourselves?

Whether we have drifted into worshipping some lesser version of God that did miracles back in Bible times. But not today.

Or treat God like an impersonal life force that makes existence possible. But doesn’t do much of anything else.

Or any other of the myriad of ways that we create limited, weak versions of God. Small enough that we can put whatever’s left in a box of our own design.

But whatever way we shrink God down, what we end up with isn’t God.

If we’ve got God down to something that we can control, something that we’re comfortable with, then what we’re dealing with? Isn’t God.

The truth about God? It’s in today’s Gospel.

From the mouth of a leper comes one of the deepest understandings of God in the Bible.

In six words. “Lord, if you will, you can.”

To unpack, God is the God who can. Whatever it is. God can.

And God will. Whatever it is.

God will. In God’s perfect judgment. And in God’s good time.

None of which may have anything to do with our ideas of what God should do.

Which is why J.B. Phillips nailed it when he said,

“God will inevitably disappoint the man who is attempting to use God as a convenience, a prop, or for his own plans. God has never been known to disappoint the man who sincerely wants to co-operate with God’s own purpose.”

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#Your God is too small #My Version of God #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #J.B. Phillips #God's Timing #Controlling God #Moments Before Mass

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beegalactica · 1 month

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one of my favourite songs from my favourite artist. listen to music that nourishes your soul ☀️💗

song: secrets from a girl (who's seen it all) by lorde

#healing #self care #self love #lorde #solar power #music is food for my soul #god's timing #music #self improvement #girlblogging #it girl #that girl #lifeblr #self impowerment

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mymusicbias · 2 months

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#sza #sesame street #mmb #god's timing

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officialyourdailyinspiration · 1 year

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Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season.

Matthew Henry

#patience #God #God's timing #prayer #blessing #Matthew Henry #Christian Quotes

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oasisr · 9 months

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God's plan is so much higher than you trying to manifest something into your life that may not be right for you at all!

God's timing is always perfect. The Law of Attraction is a form of witchcraft because it involves using the power of the mind to draw in something that may go against God's intentions for your life.

#God #Jesus #christian woman #christian #the law of attraction #rhonda byrne #the secret #oprah #manifesting #manifestation #witchcraft #god's timing #trust God

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queer-as-used-by-tolkien · 1 year

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Hi, I see your addition to that post on porn and I half agree with you: it takes a relationship with Christ to combat an addiction, we can’t win on our own. But, and hear me out, I do unfortunately have personal experience with this: my dad stopped trying at all, and it got him deeper and deeper, justifying himself saying God’s grace covered all, until this man, who accepted Christ at the age of 17, later cursed his family cursed God, and left us for a stripper. And then another. And then another. So far as I know he has not repented. God willing, he will one day. Meanwhile I had my own dirty little secret: I struggled with masturbation from a young age, almost the same age that I accepted Christ. I can’t say I never struggle with the thoughts, or that I’ve won completely, but I am having significantly less trouble fleeing temptation these days and I refuse to let the sin define me.

The only difference between us that I can see is that I kept fighting, while knowing it was only the grace of God that made a difference. God does call us to flee temptation and that’s a battle that requires some effort on our parts even though it is God who gives the victory. And that is, I believe, the intent of the original post.

On Porn and Addictions

First, thank you so, so, SO much for this ask, Anon. It raises important points that I didn't have time to discuss with my reblog. I'm sorry I didn't get to this sooner, but the site blocker I use to limit my time on Tumblr has been acting up.

For clarity: I was rebuking that OP for telling people to 'just try,' because so many people are told to 'just try' when that isn't what actually fixes you.

Yes, Anon, it's VITALLY important that you do keep trying, and giving up and citing God's grace is the absolute worst way to solve an addiction. In fact, in the fight against sin, that is the one time a person has truly lost.

But telling people to just try harder when they are already trying with all their ability 1) tells them there is no other answer and that all their current trying is not enough, which leads to depression and a return to denial or full-on loss of faith, 2) makes them feel at fault for their addiction, which multiplies guilt and blame and leads to further sin, which leads to more guilt, and so on, 3) implies they can actually solve it by trying harder, which leads to impatience and frustration with God's perfect timing, and 4) communicates a lack of support, understanding, and empathy, which makes their struggle much, much harder than it needs to be.

When a person is suffering from an addiction, they need the community of believers to gather around them and encourage them, uplift them, and remind them that they are forgiven, accepted, redeemed by his blood. We are the body of Christ; if one member is injured, we all are in pain. (1 Corinthians 12:25-26)

This support makes the suffering many times more bearable. Seeing this kind of support means others who suffer in the same way will be encouraged to share the burdens they carry and receive help.

The current culture of hiding our faults and sins and struggles so we appear holy and perfect and blameless is direct disobedience to the command we are given in James 5:16. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

If you are struggling with sin or addiction, tell someone! Tell someone you trust! Tell as many people as you feel comfortable telling. We will pray for you, and we will tell you our struggles so you can pray for us. Prayer is a powerful thing in all its aspects. And this process also builds strong bonds of community and friendship - the ties that hold the body of Christ together.

Everyone struggles with something, so do your utmost to be a safe person in a safe community - or the only safe person in an unsafe community - where people will comfortable confessing and asking for help.

When someone says 'just try harder' or 'do better' or 'if you had more/enough faith' or in any way conveys disdain, judgment, condemnation, or a negative shift of opinion toward the person struggling, that shows a lack of understanding that will immediately put a wall between that person and the one struggling. He will not approach that person again to confess and will not look to them for comfort, encouragement, acceptance, or prayer. He may also be reluctant to open up to anyone else for fear of the same reaction.

We are told in Galatians 6:1-2, Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

This is to help people out of denial; but it also commands us to bear each other's burdens. We are to be the whole, and united, body of Christ, without division, supporting each other in our struggles and temptations.

Without these vital things - feeling free to confess to each other, praying for each other, bearing each other's burdens - the struggle to healing is far longer, far more arduous, and far more miserable than God ever intended.

Aside from these verses on the value of the church in this struggle, there is one other thing that the Bible guarantees will result in a cessation of sin (in God's timing): walking after the Spirit.

The promises granted to the believer walking after the Spirit are, among other verses, outlined in Romans 8:4, Galatians 5:16 and Galatians 6:7-9.

Walking in the Spirit is three things: 1) obeying the commands in the Bible, 2) following the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and 3) giving thanks in all things, rejoicing in sufferings (including temptation), and counting it joy to be tempted. (1 Thessalonians 5:18, 1 Peter 4:13, James 1:2ff)

Technically that third thing is part of the first (obeying the Bible's commands), but it's vitally important. The reasons for doing so are outlined in Proverbs 23:7, Romans 12:2, Matthew 6:19-24 and Luke 11:33-36. Even secular science has caught on, after a few thousand years: due to how your brain interprets thoughts as commands and the activity of brain chemicals such as dopamine, the things you think about are things you are more likely to act on. Including sin.

Philippians 4:8 instructs us this way: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are TRUE, whatsoever things are HONEST, whatsoever things are JUST, whatsoever things are PURE, whatsoever things are LOVELY, whatsoever things are OF GOOD REPORT; if there be any VIRTUE, if there be any PRAISE, think on these things.

Beating yourself up over having fallen into sin, or promising you'll never do it again, or lamenting yet another failure, or asking how it got you this time: is it TRUE? Has not Christ cleansed and forgiven you? Are you not clean and holy? Is it HONEST? Are you really not going to do it again? Are you being realistic about your own ability? Is it JUST, seeing that you do not deserve any punishment, even the mild sort you inflict on yourself, since Christ took it all and paid in full? Is it a PURE line of thought, filling your mind with bitterness? Is dwelling on sin LOVELY in any way whatsoever? Is it OF GOOD REPORT - are these things you would be telling others about? Is it worth sharing? Is there any PRAISE in the matter - are you praising the comission of sin? Are you praiseworthy for having committed sin?

I think the answer to all of these questions is no. So don't think about that.

If you think on bad things like that sin you just committed, you will act on those bad things. If you think of good things, you will act on those good things.

Certainly, continuing to try not to sin is vital to recovery; you always need to return to the fight, get back on the horse, and go to God. But do not expect results right away! God's timing is incomprehensible to us, and it's restated in the context of walking in the Spirit (Galatians 5:5 and 6:7-9, and 1 Peter 5:7-11). It is difficult for me when I fall, thinking that I haven't spent enough time thinking good things: but all in God's timing. It is hard sitting back, remembering we have done all we can, and it is God who works in us to will and to act.

It may take a day or it may take a lifetime, and if it only takes a day there is always a new sin or temptation waiting: but this is the struggle and calling of every believer. If you are fighting, you are winning.

It is when you are not fighting, when you have given in or given up and decided not to try - that is when you have lost, for even if God works in your life and makes the temptation easier to bear, you wouldn't know it.

Keep trying. Don't give up. But trying your hardest is not what ultimately works righteousness within you. When you succeed, remember it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. (Philippians 2:13)

Thank you deeply, Anon, for sharing your story. I have felt led to respond quickly, so no doubt you or others need to hear what I've said, despite its length.

Here are some resources for the person struggling with sin or addiction:

Celebraterecovery.com - this has a map for you to find a Celebrate Recovery group at a local church. It's a Christ-centered twelve-step recovery group, run by others who struggle or have recovered from struggling with sin or addiction. They focus on the positive, and every other week they have a testimony of someone's successful recovery. They also focus on sharing and supporting each other. They've been around for 30+ years and it works. The one I'm going to gets new members every week, and a different person shares their testimony every other week. It's truly glorious to watch.

Specifically for people who struggle with porn and/or masturbation on Reddit.com itself: see the subreddits r/NoFap, r/NoFapChristians, r/pornfree, r/pornfreewomen (women only!), r/PornFreeChristians, and more.

#anti-porn #walking after the spirit #christianity #faith #celebrate recovery #cr #bible #god's timing #addiction

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dramoor · 2 years

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"Embracing the idea that God has a plan for us means always looking for His fingerprints even in our most dire circumstances. It means being willing to change our plans to match what He is doing in our lives. It means desiring His will more than our own.

‘God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.’ - Ecclesiastes 3:11

In our mistakes and failures, tragedies and losses, God never leaves us. His goodness and love surround us. In His time, beauty blossoms in all things.

Whatever we're facing today, however we might feel broken, our mandate is still the same - to share God's love at all times and with everyone we meet in our broken world. That's how beauty breaks through."

~Dr. Mary C. Neal

#God's timing #beauty blossoms #Scriptures #God has made everything beautiful in its time #Time #Dr. Mary C. Neal #Christian #flowers #photography #photographers on tumblr #God never leaves us #share God's love #eternity #pink

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unreadsstuff · 2 years

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If I want His promise,then I should be willing to embrace His process.His way, not mine.His plans should happen according to His timeline not mine🕰🕰🕰

#throughitall #beginning here #scarofwaiting #god's timing #godsplanovermine #breakthroughoverbreakdown

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mias-back-from-the-dead · 4 months

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tbh i think the funniest phenomena that's been happening in the last couple years is "youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will"

#like im not gonna name names but i can think of at least 3 channels #where they stopped posting short form content and went #wait the patreon is paying my rent im no longer a slave to the algorithm gods #HELL YEAH TIME TO SPEND 5+ MONTHS PUTTING TOGETHER A 3+ HOUR VIDEO #and i eat that shit up every time

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yeslordmyking · 2 years

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May, 6 (Evening) Devotion

“All the days of my appointed time will I wait.”

Job 14:14

A little stay on earth will make heaven more heavenly. Nothing makes rest so sweet as toil; nothing renders security so pleasant as exposure to alarms. The bitter quassia cups of earth will give a relish to the new wine which sparkles in the golden bowls of glory. Our battered armour and scarred countenances will render more illustrious our victory above, when we are welcomed to the seats of those who have overcome the world. We should not have full fellowship with Christ if we did not for awhile sojourn below, for he was baptized with a baptism of suffering among men, and we must be baptized with the same if we would share his kingdom. Fellowship with Christ is so honourable that the sorest sorrow is a light price by which to procure it. Another reason for our lingering here is for the good of others. We would not wish to enter heaven till our work is done, and it may be that we are yet ordained to minister light to souls benighted in the wilderness of sin. Our prolonged stay here is doubtless for God’s glory. A tried saint, like a well-cut diamond, glitters much in the King’s crown. Nothing reflects so much honour on a workman as a protracted and severe trial of his work, and its triumphant endurance of the ordeal without giving way in any part. We are God’s workmanship, in whom he will be glorified by our afflictions. It is for the honour of Jesus that we endure the trial of our faith with sacred joy. Let each man surrender his own longings to the glory of Jesus, and feel, “If my lying in the dust would elevate my Lord by so much as an inch, let me still lie among the pots of earth. If to live on earth forever would make my Lord more glorious, it should be my heaven to be shut out of heaven.” Our time is fixed and settled by eternal decree. Let us not be anxious about it, but wait with patience till the gates of pearl shall open.

Daily Bible and Devotional for Women - http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=daily.bible.for.woman

#God #Jesus #christianity #faith #patience #God's timing #our time on earth is short #Jesus is coming soon #have faith #work on earth #labor for the Lord #devotional #bible verse

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