You may not be sure that you want your life to make a difference. Maybe you don't care very much whether you make a lasting difference for the sake of something great. You just want people to like you. If people would just like being around you, you'd be satisfied. Or if you could just have a good job with a good wife, or husband, and a couple of good kids and a nice car and long weekends and a few good friends, a fun retirement, and a quick and easy death, and no hell -- if you could have all that (even without God)--you would be satisfied. That is a tragedy in the making. A wasted life. (John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life, pg. 45)
Is your life making eternal differences? Are you taking your love for the world and transferring it into your love for the Lord? Are you saved?
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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"God said that because he knows that when you eat it, you will be like God and know what is good and what is bad."
Gen 3:6 'The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how good its fruit would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it."
Because I love you, consider the following in relation to your last two posts.
The above scripture shows mankind's fatal flaw, always wanting to be "like God." This was the original sin, Satan through his underlying pride longed to be God's equal or God's superior. To be "god" over mankind; he has never stopped "recruiting" those willing to aid him through obedience. (John 10:10)
Consider this; on an equal basis, which is only fair if you are going to judge the retired couple. Maybe their boat was moored in a "Christian Community." His softball team agreed to recruit at least on "unsaved" person per year with the goal of bringing them to Christ and she collected shells to bring them to a "Retirement Home" telling its occupants that Jesus loves them. The shells are gifts they can afford to give on a fixed pension.
The tragedy, the person who passed by and judged them according to his "standards" of life, standards he constantly fails at. In turn, his anger at himself is transferred to those who do not APPEAR to be doing as he wants them to. He then "judges" them, elevating himself to a place he reasons they cannot attain, only he has.
Your Friend,
A voice from the wilderness
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