20th June 2007, 19:16
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Out of the mouth of babes!
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16th September 2007, 14:49
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h m m ?
Ah castle ! but there are some who would aek, what about those whom God has cursed , are they precious to him ? when you say WE ,does that include everybody on this planet, or just those who believe in God and Jesus, what about the chief priests who wanted Jesus dead, were they precious to GOD, h m m ?
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16th September 2007, 21:31
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A total "YES"
Brian, I believe that God thinks EVERYONE whom he has created utterly PRECIOUS - and loves us ALL with an uncompromised, unconditional love. We should not even attempt to challenge that love from any direction, but to accept it as God's very NATURE shown to us and actually sent to us in the person of our Saviour - Jesus.
Where we as humans sometimes go astray is to think God sees us as we see ourselves - or each other!!! The person born with delightful human beauty (as we see it) and the person born with no legs, or with a terrible disease, is equally loved by GOD- although WE find that difficult......... because I don't believe God "curses" anyone with anything. This is because God has created each person in his OWN IMAGE, with an eternal soul. He has then given us a mind and a body that he is happy with. We may see ourselves purely as humans with many irregularities, illnesses, physical disabilities, etc., but God sees right through these things and sees the REAL "US" and loves us unconditionally - 'cause that's the way he made us !!. If we've got a problem with that, we must go back to him, but the answer will be the same "I HAVE LOVED YOU WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE". When in Ukraine last month I met a lady who had been blind 40 years. Her joy and fun was extraordinary and she could go to any part of her apartment for any thing and love the prayers we had together. I also met a guy who is a shrunken wreck of a 25 yr old.....but his peace and acceptance of what and who he was before God led him to pray for ME......one of the most humbling things ever. He didn't know that I had just been diagnosed with a pair of lungs that are in poor shape and will resprict my movements 'till the day I die - and with no fault atributable to me. Has God 'cursed me'? - has he punished me? Does he still love me as much as before.?.......I was in Ukraine doing HIS BUSINESS as sent by him. NO - NO - and ABSOLUTELY YES. We must lay down (hard though it is) our HUMAN understanding and perception of inadequacies and human frainlties and see them as GOD sees them. Then we can < start > to get our priorities in order and still weep at death, as Jesus did with Lazarus (although there's much more to that than meets the eye....!! ) and see that we live in a wicked and corrupt world rules by Satan...... and that he is the sourse of all sickness, curses, frailties and human problems. God loves all his creation, Brian....and the way he sees it - IT IS GOOD Andrew
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17th September 2007, 00:42
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h m m ?
hi again andrew! good to see your message...hold on to what you believe andrew in the lord, remembering we dont stand or fall to each other but to GOD...please to consider this scripture...MALACHI 1:3 and i HATED Esau,,,,,,,,did God love Esau ? :-) lol
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17th September 2007, 01:11
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Great stuff Andrew! That is why you "rock the house".
I know where you are going with your train of thought Brian. Scripture is clear that God hates lying lips. You have told lies in the past. Therefore God must hate you for telling lies. I don't think God hates any of his creations. He even says to take up a lamentation for Satan (Ezek 28:12). But I think he hates what we have allowed ourselves to become sometime. Thank God that his mercy endures forever and his love never fails.
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17th September 2007, 11:50
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Hello again Castle and Brian - good to catch up again.
Brian - I tend to go with Castle here. Easu had disrespected God's laws, his parents adherance to them, his own birthright rules and all the tenets of the family's God-given laws of heritage. He was a silly big boy who put one good meal before the whole concept of his relationship with God and his family. Wrong move. Jacob was conversely a conniving, scheming little rat, but God had already prophesied that Easu and Jacob would both be great leaders - but that through Jacob God would see His plans progress. and that's how it was. God knows the end from the begininning - he says what he means and he means what he says - and nothings' going to change that - not even our questioning... LOL God sees nothing in shades of grey - only black and white - and so Malachi clearly indicates God's attitude to 2 men - one disowmed him and the other did not. God judged their attitudes accordingly. Andrew
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17th September 2007, 22:16
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yeeeeeeees up to a point !
some good points raised in both posts but Andrew you called Jacob a scheming little rat. BUT Jacob was loved by GOD , and Paul said speak evil of no man, so sorry i cant go along with you on that :-)
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