I posted this before,but the problem, there's ...

[Sunil Wanigatunga]

Life is not a bed of Roses as you would have found out. Things happen according to the will of God and in His time not ours. Obviously God is testing you with the"Annoying" person. Follow what Jesus has said about our enemies and those who use us badly. So look to the future in God's vision. You seem to have many things to put right before "rapture". God help you

 

[Brother James]

Yeah it was a shock or sad when an unsaved loved dies.Yet you stand at their funeral with a big smile on your face,.

You might very well be a masochist if you smile at the suffering of others Steven! Hell is a very real place with very real suffering. Even you have seen the liquid fire come up out of the ground and destroy everything in it's path even if you only saw a video of it. I would question my salvation if I went to an unsaved persons funeral and smiled or got pleasure from knowing their fate.

 

[Steven Bobb]

You might very well be a masochist if you smile at the suffering of others Steven! Hell is a very real place with very real suffering. Even you have seen the liquid fire come up out of the ground and destroy everything in it's path even if you only saw a video of it. I would question my salvation if I went to an unsaved persons funeral and smiled or got pleasure from knowing their fate.

I didn't say I do it. I recognize it as a sad event. It's you I'm wondering about, since you say everything is good.

 

[Steven Bobb]

Not nesasarily get pleasure from it,but because you only know one emotion, happiness, I wonder if you're that "far gone"'that you don't realize some things like the death of an unsaved person, are not happen occasions.

 

[Brother James]

I didn't say I do it. I recognize it as a sad event. It's you I'm wondering about, since you say everything is good.

I didn't say everything is good, I merely stated the Words of Jesus declare all things work for my good. Looking at something that happens to us that seems bad as working for our good is a way of counting it as joy. It is not wise to state, murmur or complain about it because that doesn't stop it from happening when in fact it brings more on us until we learn to count it as joy. If the devil is tormenting you and you don't learn to count it as joy you give the devil permission to keep right on tormenting you. Jesus gives us His instructions to help us combat the devil not to turn us into masochists. Counting something as joy is not the same as enjoying the pleasures of our's nor anyone else's suffering Steven.

 

[Steven Bobb]

I didn't say everything is good, I merely stated the Words of Jesus declare all things work for my good. Looking at something that happens to us that seems bad as working for our good is a way of counting it as joy. It is not wise to state, murmur or complain about it because that doesn't stop it from happening when in fact it brings more on us until we learn to count it as joy. If the devil is tormenting you and you don't learn to count it as joy you give the devil permission to keep right on tormenting you. Jesus gives us His instructions to help us combat the devil not to turn us into masochists. Counting something as joy is not the same as enjoying the pleasures of our's nor anyone else's suffering Steven.

When an unsaved person I know dies, it's sad, and the verse that comes to my mind is in Revelation about the New Heaven and Earth--"And death will be no more."2} I appreciate that you clarified your meaning, I was wondering, if you don't differentiate between experiences,when you cross the street you might step out in front of an oncoming bus, not knowing that it's not good for you.But as for something good coming out of what seems troublesome,there are some thorns where I can't see how. Like when I need to take care of an errand or 2, and because of the busyness,I can't fit in to do it.OR I have to do it in a crazy way, that I wouldn't have if I had time.OR, nothing might be happening, but then just when I have an idea to do something that I need or even want,something pops up just then!!Now, since you see good in everything, show me what good can I get out of putting off an oil change until it harms the engine?Or putting off shopping until I have almost no food left, and go around hungry?

 

[Brother James]

Sometimes we all have things that pop up that cause us to not do things that we planned on doing. I usually say Lord willing I will do this or that. Sometimes I grab a burger or change an appointment. As far as oil changes go I am a mechanic my self and I have to get my vehicles inspected which I do myself both daily and monthly but I have a friend that does that for free with an oil change so I'll do that once a year but there are times we both have to reschedule. I just look at it as a blessing from Jesus that He may have prevented something really bad from happening to me. Oil itself doesn't go bad, it just gets dirty and every 5 to 10 thousand miles you really only should change your oil filter but changing the oil for a free inspection doesn't hurt anything. As far as food goes at times I just grab a sandwich somewhere along the way but I almost always give thanks for it. Does that answer your question?

 

[Steven Bobb]

Sometimes we all have things that pop up that cause us to not do things that we planned on doing. I usually say Lord willing I will do this or that. Sometimes I grab a burger or change an appointment. As far as oil changes go I am a mechanic my self and I have to get my vehicles inspected which I do myself both daily and monthly but I have a friend that does that for free with an oil change so I'll do that once a year but there are times we both have to reschedule. I just look at it as a blessing from Jesus that He may have prevented something really bad from happening to me. Oil itself doesn't go bad, it just gets dirty and every 5 to 10 thousand miles you really only should change your oil filter but changing the oil for a free inspection doesn't hurt anything. As far as food goes at times I just grab a sandwich somewhere along the way but I almost always give thanks for it. Does that answer your question?

Except for the fact that it would be nice to have a choice,not have the situation forced on me through circumstance.Yeah, most auto shops throw in the inspection with the oil change.With the point about a certain verse comes to me upon knowing of someones pending death,that happens with other things, I experience something, and a verse comes to me.With going to a cemetary, the verse would be,"The time is coming when all those in the graves will hear the voice of the Son of Man,and"Some will arise to everlasting Glory, but others to everlasting shame".I've been to pet shops that specialize in exotic pets, and looking at the snake,I can almost hear the lie of Satan in the Garden,"You shall not surely die".Or if some spectacular new experience happens, I hear."Then I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth'.I would think this has happened to you{?}I would think it would be the Holy Spirit talking to us?

 

[Brother James]

Except for the fact that it would be nice to have a choice,not have the situation forced on me through circumstance.Yeah, most auto shops throw in the inspection with the oil change.With the point about a certain verse comes to me upon knowing of someones pending death,that happens with other things, I experience something, and a verse comes to me.With going to a cemetary, the verse would be,"The time is coming when all those in the graves will hear the voice of the Son of Man,and"Some will arise to everlasting Glory, but others to everlasting shame".I've been to pet shops that specialize in exotic pets, and looking at the snake,I can almost hear the lie of Satan in the Garden,"You shall not surely die".Or if some spectacular new experience happens, I hear."Then I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth'.I would think this has happened to you{?}I would think it would be the Holy Spirit talking to us?

I don't tell others specific things God has shown me or told me for at the end of the Bible, God's Word, Jesus' Word, He says if anyone adds or takes away from the book of this prophesy etc so I keep some things to myself

I can tell you this, that anything that has happened to anyone in the Bible could very well happen to you or even for you

 

[gretchen11111]

I posted this before,but the problem, there's "good" things to look forward to, but the problem, until they occur...an annoying person I deal with is going away, but there's still a few days left until she goes.The slow period between the holidays is coming,but for now, I'm still running like a lunatic.I have a plan to get out of the ratrace atmosphere where I live to one of those spread out western states, but some things have to fall into place for it to happen, which takes time.Even the Rapture, is in the FUTURE.Request is that the time speeds up to those "good things'.Because good things happening in the future aren't helping me NOW.

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