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As you approach the main entrance, you accidentally step in doggie dung. You are not to blame for the filth getting on you. Nevertheless, you should be held accountable for not doing what you could to remove it.   *  I, too, loved my mother’s book about witches   *  I had become addicted to the same popular writer Many Christians might view this old television series as harmless.

In a previous webpage we discovered that the Old Testament speaks of loving one’s enemy, and as we proceed The Almighty is far too smart not to be intensely practical. but genuine love for the offender, sorrow that justice is required and an acute awareness that we, too Some, upon entering heaven, will suffer devastating loss and some will receive rewards too extravagant themselves too intoxicated by greed, selfishness or spite to be impartial in their judgment of those

(I was too ashamed and fearful to admit the blasphemous thoughts and doubts of salvation and God’s love It was like one of those dreams where you are trying to run but your legs won’t carry you – you know If we are too proud or fearful to accept God’s “way out” there is no guarantee that he will provide an To be too proud to take God’s “way out” of medication would be like leprous Naaman being too proud to You won't regret it!

I will water you with my tears . . . We shrink from tears like a cat from water, but as the old Arab proverb observes, “All sunshine doth responded to this webpage by going to the other extreme of looking down on those who find themselves too You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate Ezra 3:12-13 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had

Suppose you had an abortion. But our sufferings move God far too deeply for him to let them be wasted.   If that disappoints you a little, you haven’t thought it through. If you have already sought much help but worries keep resurfacing, you most likely need a totally different You should skip these pages (you can return later if you wish) and go straight to  Scrupulosity .

Revenge Without Shame Don’t get angry, get even The Dream A public lynching would be far too kind for the despicable creature who hurt you. Writhe like the worm you are!” You are grinning from ear to ear. If a mouse is angry, you can snigger; if a grizzly bear is angry, you can fear; but if the Almighty is More important still, you need closure so that at last you can get on with life.

you deserve. You can heal. He took drugs to run from that man but far too soon the victim was back in his head again. You don’t. He isn’t getting the forgiveness of God. You are being healed. Comments another sex abuse survivor: You are right on target when you contrast the life that abusers

A study of the Old Testament use of the word blessing is astounding. Paul commented on how Jews could study the Old Testament with great thoroughness and still never realize I hope it’s not too long for you:   Spiritual concerns are spiritually discerned.   Too often we overlook our Savior’s insistence that we take up our cross and follow the One who for the No one ever gets so old and wise or so spiritual that he or she cannot make a devastating mistake.  

We fear that it would be too painful and/or if we fully admitted to ourselves the magnitude of the offense we would find it too hard to forgive.   Had you known, you would have given him money but he already owed you much and he was just too embarrassed You are far too precious to God for him to let your suffering be a useless waste. Numbers 22:6  Now come and put a curse on these people, because they are too powerful for me.

intensely involved in our lives that the very frequency and intimacy of his dealings with us makes it seem too Rather than giving listening for God top priority, we are too content to muddle through life with only Similarly, we are in constant danger of missing divine guidance because it seems too ordinary. Or, like Saul in a mad rush, we can miss out because we are too busy to wait or pay close attention. Too often, when the Sovereign Lord chooses to act in ways beyond our narrow expectations we mistakenly

 . my heart isn’t haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too Judges 7:2  The Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.   And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?  

Feeling Rejected by God Has God Really Forsaken You?   Could You Be Damned And Without Hope?   And the same is true for you. God has faith in you. His intelligence soars far too high above us for his ways to be predictable by mere humans, but his loving You, too, can reach that point by clinging to God when the illusion is strong that he seems to favor You should skip these pages (you can return later if you wish) and go straight to  Scrupulosity .