Who Do you say I AM?
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Edit This 2 Comments »
The other morning when I was in that awake but still asleep phase (or sleep but really awake phase) I was thinking to myself all of the questions I wanted to ask a friend of mine about his walk with God. Things like what does he believe about prayer and what does he believe about the Bible and while I was thinking of my next question the very question that Jesus asked His disciples in Mark 8:29 came to me:
I was like yes, I will ask him what He believes about God, great question! But as the question kept looping in my head. I soon recognized that that question wasn't for him but rather I needed to answer it for myself.
Yeah, it's nice to ask other people where they stand spiritually but where do I stand? It reminds me of how personal our relationship with the Lord is. Here I am saying yadda this and yadda that and the Lord put me on blast. . . While it's still a great question, I don't think its one that I've thought about lately. . . let alone answered.
So, as I was journaling my thoughts I was like well, I guess there are a couple of ways to answer this question.
1. I can answer it based on what the Bible says
2. I can answer it based on how I act
Then I thought that they would indeed contradict themselves. For example the Bible says that nothing can separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus while that is true my actions don't always coincide with that truth. I think that how I've been raised and my life's experiences sometimes get in the way of me fully believing that. Yet I must forget those things which are behind and press towards the truth. right. after all, God is not my 2nd grade teacher nor is he the friend who betrayed me.
Anyway while I am answering this question for myself I'll ask you who do you say He is?
Yeah, it's nice to ask other people where they stand spiritually but where do I stand? It reminds me of how personal our relationship with the Lord is. Here I am saying yadda this and yadda that and the Lord put me on blast. . . While it's still a great question, I don't think its one that I've thought about lately. . . let alone answered.
So, as I was journaling my thoughts I was like well, I guess there are a couple of ways to answer this question.
1. I can answer it based on what the Bible says
and
Then I thought that they would indeed contradict themselves. For example the Bible says that nothing can separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus while that is true my actions don't always coincide with that truth. I think that how I've been raised and my life's experiences sometimes get in the way of me fully believing that. Yet I must forget those things which are behind and press towards the truth. right. after all, God is not my 2nd grade teacher nor is he the friend who betrayed me.
Anyway while I am answering this question for myself I'll ask you who do you say He is?
2 What's on Your Write Mind?:
Hi Sandy,
It might be 1:15 in the morning, but I found some time to visit my blogger friends! It's good to see you, girl, and you look beautiful with that smile of yours! I like the slide show addition, too, by the way. I think you've reflected on something pretty important in this post. I hope we keep discovering the many wonderful things that Jesus really is. I hope we never stop learning, never stop growing, never stop seeing.
Peace,
Michele
where was I at 1:15? oh yes sleep :)
Thanks for stopping by...I was thinking about you a couple of weeks ago. I really needed to talk to someone and I was like I wish I could call Michele. :)
Anyway, thanks for the encouragment!
Sandy
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