JaneBond007
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Question: Right now, in this very second, answer and record well your first inclination. Do you like your life/Are you happy?
Please feel free to add to this thread.
This is a spinny with a religious twist from the good thread in the OT on being satisfied with your life. I thought it would be a good idea over hear to discuss with a christian twist because there are so many of us wanting change.
Proverbs 13:12
12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; But when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Do you hate life in the interim? What is the medicine for the sickness? Planning, goals? Do you sit back and take no action, thinking it is best for G-d to lead you? There is a time for everything but we often miss the proper timing. The ant does not give up, building for the future. When he falls, he continues on. He is determined. The sparrow? He never worries about his life. And we humans? With such misery in the world, being that we are the ones with mental faculty, what's our sentiment? Are you kidding me? Of course we worry! Of course we hate life sometimes. But is that kosher? Hating your life, even in that split second you say it or think it?
What use is hating the now? Circumstances can certainly tempt you to hate life but what is your action then? Complaints or praise and action? I thought this thread could solicit scripture and discussion on how to overcome in that dreadful interim of no change, of hardship, whatever it is. It's fruitless to hate it because the situation was predestined. You are in it and can't get out of it. But when you are meant to leave it, if that is His will, your circumstances will change. Can you pray it away? You might, again, according to the will of G-d. But in THIS instant, you are IN it. What's our initial inclination? "Oh, I hate this" or that typical saying we utter without thinking sometimes, out of stress, "I hate my life!"
Psalms 30:8-12
8 To You, O Lord, I called,
And to the Lord I made supplication:
9 “What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?
10 “Hear, O Lord, and be gracious to me;
O Lord, be my helper.”
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,
12 That my [a]soul may sing praise to You and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.
The tongue has erred against the very life placed within us. Our eternal destiny is not separate from our earthly life in that we work and enjoy life on earth and plan, building for our heavenly future life. We're to love both and protect them. How hard it is sometimes to be gentle to our earthly lives. Who says, "I hate heaven!" Yet, we often think, "gosh, I hate this life!" We can take back the dread and approach life from a different path.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Deut. 31:8
8 The Lord is the one who goes ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
One thing about G-d, He shows us how to get up and try, try, try again. Everyday is new. Every moment is new. If we hate any moment attached to ourselves, which is actually saying that we hate ourselves, in a sense, we miss moments of loving ourselves. We miss the true love of life and can never regain them as our days are limited.
Please feel free to add to this thread.
This is a spinny with a religious twist from the good thread in the OT on being satisfied with your life. I thought it would be a good idea over hear to discuss with a christian twist because there are so many of us wanting change.
Proverbs 13:12
12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; But when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Do you hate life in the interim? What is the medicine for the sickness? Planning, goals? Do you sit back and take no action, thinking it is best for G-d to lead you? There is a time for everything but we often miss the proper timing. The ant does not give up, building for the future. When he falls, he continues on. He is determined. The sparrow? He never worries about his life. And we humans? With such misery in the world, being that we are the ones with mental faculty, what's our sentiment? Are you kidding me? Of course we worry! Of course we hate life sometimes. But is that kosher? Hating your life, even in that split second you say it or think it?
What use is hating the now? Circumstances can certainly tempt you to hate life but what is your action then? Complaints or praise and action? I thought this thread could solicit scripture and discussion on how to overcome in that dreadful interim of no change, of hardship, whatever it is. It's fruitless to hate it because the situation was predestined. You are in it and can't get out of it. But when you are meant to leave it, if that is His will, your circumstances will change. Can you pray it away? You might, again, according to the will of G-d. But in THIS instant, you are IN it. What's our initial inclination? "Oh, I hate this" or that typical saying we utter without thinking sometimes, out of stress, "I hate my life!"
Psalms 30:8-12
8 To You, O Lord, I called,
And to the Lord I made supplication:
9 “What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?
10 “Hear, O Lord, and be gracious to me;
O Lord, be my helper.”
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,
12 That my [a]soul may sing praise to You and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.
The tongue has erred against the very life placed within us. Our eternal destiny is not separate from our earthly life in that we work and enjoy life on earth and plan, building for our heavenly future life. We're to love both and protect them. How hard it is sometimes to be gentle to our earthly lives. Who says, "I hate heaven!" Yet, we often think, "gosh, I hate this life!" We can take back the dread and approach life from a different path.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Deut. 31:8
8 The Lord is the one who goes ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
One thing about G-d, He shows us how to get up and try, try, try again. Everyday is new. Every moment is new. If we hate any moment attached to ourselves, which is actually saying that we hate ourselves, in a sense, we miss moments of loving ourselves. We miss the true love of life and can never regain them as our days are limited.
