Whatever is "large" in your life, it's gravity will control the path of your life.
When the world is large your life will revolve around the cares and concerns of the world.
If you are the one who is "large" (powerful, influential or celebrity) life will revolve around you.
If your kids are your whole world, life revolves around them.
If money is "large" activities will revolve around obtaining and enjoying money.
If life is about fun, you will pursue fun.
If love or affection is most important, you will pursue that.
Some spend life trying to avoid pain or unhappiness.
BUT, when you feel the immense love of God towards you, a love that sacrificed His Son to pay the debt of your rebellion, its gravity is SO great that your life can't possibly escape it.
Dr Rick said "Sin should hurt in such a way that it changes the way you live."
Do you care about how you live life? "How you live your days is how you live your life."
The question of what prayers to pray often comes up. In the Lords prayer Jesus shows us how to pray. So should we repeat this and other prayers? Is there benefit in the repetition of prayers? The Monday May 10th post from John MacArthur answers that question:
In finding Nemo Dori (although about as bright as a black hole) had some good advice.
Do you ever find it hard to “just keep swimming” in life?
Feels like you have hit a wall and you just want to quit?
Can I share some good news with you? 1. You’re not alone. I’ve been there more than I want to admit and 2. You’re not alone because God is in the plan and purpose behind this wall.
Maybe you have hit a wall as a result of sin. Sometimes God allows us to feel the result of our own ways. I am hard headed and have to learn some hard lessons sometimes.
Maybe this difficult path has been set before you for your GROWTH.
God uses trials to make His children more like Christ.
Jam 1:2-4 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
We must learn to depend less on ourselves and more on God.
I once heard “God doesn’t take you into deep water to cleanse you, but to drown you.”
We need to crucify our “old self”
Read the words of Paul to the Romans:
For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin.
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
Just keep swimming! God is with you if you have placed all your faith and trust in Jesus Christ who has died for your sins and reunited you to God through the gift of faith.
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