Author Archives: Compulsive Writer

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The Struggle of Truth

I am in a struggle at the moment. I know that the Bible is the true word of God. I know that I can trust what I read. My problem is that I am finding things that don’t make sense to me. I am still at the very beginning of my study, but I am having a hard time getting my head around that some passages contradict each other. If the Bible is true and God is well,  God, how can that be? I have a theory. It is not a proven theory, just a hypothesis.

God is perfect, God’s word also perfect. Man is not, thus man’s hand in the Bible corrupted some parts. 

Yea, good in theory, but God’s word is infallible. See the issue? I can only think that I have to do two things to reconcile the struggle in my head. I have to move it to my heart. I have to trust God by the faith I have that He will show me the truth, whatever it is, if I dutifully read His word. Right?

Here is the thing, I have no less than fourteen versions of the Bible on my shelf. I can read anyone of those. Here lately I have been reading on-line. I think the issue is I have a disconnect between my faith in God and my reading God’s word. It is not real to me. I am going to shift back to reading a real in my hands Bible. Maybe the feel of the book in my hand will make it real again to me.

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.” 1 Tim 3:16-17

“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12

There are 53 other verses about the Bible in the Bible. If I believe only these two, then I have my answer. If that is the case, since I do believe God’s word, why am I struggling? I don’t have the answer, but I will.

 

 

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A Different Kind of Tired

I spent so many wasted minutes in my life complaining that I was tired and stressed when I should have been thanking God that I was surviving. I was tired and very stressed, but I was the problem. Once I realized that the problem wasn’t God, life, my job, or anything else, the problem was me. I decided to fix me. I was tired, but now I am a different kind of tired. I am a happy, blessed tired.

Often we think that the issue is God and His not answering prayers as we beg for a new life, job. money , whatever you are begging for, when the entire time we are crying to God He is waiting on us to move and change our attitude. I had to change me, make a stand for what was right, then the blessing came.What is more, I knew what God wanted me to do, but I was like Job with every excuse as to why I shouldn’t do it. Once I did as I was being led to do. God answered.

Is the problem with your prayer life you?

I challenge you to change your prayers to those of thanking instead of asking. Change what you are doing, change your attitude and listen. Move your prayers from ” I want”, “Help Me”, “Give Me”, to “Thank God” and “Help others”.  Then act on those prayers.

See the blessing follow.

 

 

 

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Thankful Peace

I can not say “Thank you God!” enough these days. I was amazed that for all that worry I did for all those months about taking a leap of faith did not come to be. That my big life change has gone so well has just stunned me. I was worried about money, and that has worked out wonderfully.  No debt mongers have come knocking at my door to drag me away to debtor’s prison. Unexpected deposits in the bank, several bills went down, and my investment accounts gained at an unexpected rate. I just knew that making less money would be the end of me. It wasn’t.  I was certain that people in my life would be disappointed in me. Just the opposite has happened. Everyone I know is proud of me!

I followed God’s will for my life and I have survived just fine. It hasn’t all been perfect, but it has been peaceful. I am happier than I have been in years! It is amazing how God works.

Thank you God!

Take my advice, if you don’t remember anything I say today, remember this:

If you follow God’s will for your life, you will be thankful, humbled and at peace. No matter what happens around you, God will provide and give you peace.

 

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Good Morning

Today I  thanked God for waking me up. After a week of evil in the news and seeing evil in the world, I was thankful just to wake up. If you haven’t seen the evil in the news lately you have to be living in a hole somewhere with a white rabbit. Every time the news came on someone had been murdered, raped, kidnapped or abused. I wanted to just turn it off. Then I realized that in that evil good came shining through. It was in a mother’s tears, a child’s smile, and a hero’s humility. Good broke through the evil and made me realize that evil is not going to win. It might harm us for a time, but good wins in the end.

Mat 10:18 “Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.”

In the end, always, Good wins and good comes from God!

That, my friend is enough to make this a good morning!

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He Changed Me

I have spent the better part of my life, at least 20 years of it, trying to be that girl. You know the smart one, the one everyone thinks has all the right stuff going for her. I came to realized that I was not being true to me. I wore what they said was fashionable. I drove the right car just like the cool TV ads said was right. I lived in what was the best house I could afford.  On and on living a life that was chosen by society for me.  I am not saying that I did not like those things, I did but they were not what I chose they were chosen for me. I wanted to present a correct image to the world or at least what I though was correct. I was, by society’s standards living right. Through it all I sacrificed truth so that I could be that person, you know the one, the one that fit in.

At some point in my life I decided that enough was enough. I decided I would make my own choices, and to hell what anyone thought. I was going to do just what I wanted to do. I drove fast cars and drank a lot with my friend Tom Collins. I stayed out late because society said I should be at home watching chick flicks on HBO. I was not going to be that person. I had a huge swing in the opposite direction. The pendulum went swoosh and stuck over there for a long time. Eventually the whole thing caught up with me. I am not going to give you a story that says I was face down in the gutter covered with the smut of my own nasty life. No I rather liked how I was living. I didn’t need anyone. I could make it on my own. I did not have to listen to what anyone said. I ate, drank, and partied like a rock star. I lied, cheated, preformed on the stage of life to get what I wanted. This life is mine for the taking and I was taking it all. No one could stop me, I was made for a grand thing, and I was creating the life I wanted no matter who got hurt in the fall out. Then He changed me.

God found me. He said to my soul,  You are mine.

I was not one of these instant converts, no not me.  I fought God like a spoiled child. I crossed my arms and stomped my perfectly manicured toes in my shiny silver stilettos. No, I like this life. I don’t want that goody-goody life you are offering. Let me tell you my friend, God has a way of smacking your smart attitude right out of you. When you look up you are on your butt trying to figure out what direction that lightning came from.

God found me at what I thought was at the height of my life. The best years of who I was. I was young, skinny, sexy, smart and I knew it. To the outside world I was making something of myself, in the eyes of  God  I was a big messy failure that had to be cleaned up.

SO don’t think that because your life is flying high and sailing smooth that you are just fine without God. If God wants you, He will have you. No matter of running, begging, lying, compromising or bargaining will stop Him from taking you and changing you. I tried all that. Please let me have that one thing I want and I will go to church next Sunday, I promise. God knew I was lying ans so did I. I was lying and manipulating myself to death’s door. If God had not snatched me up by the scruff of my perfectly tanned neck and had He not turned me around to His direction, I would be dead. You would not be reading this.

God changed me and for that I am and will be forever thankful.

 

 

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Be Ready

Mark 24

42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

We have no idea when Jesus will return. Since it could happen any day, today perhaps, we need to get our house in order. It takes courage to tidy up your house. It may even take doing something so out of character for you that your closest friends and family think you are insane. You may have to take all the contents out of your house in one fell swoop and only allow back in the things that are important. Faith, hope love are a good place start. All the other things worth keeping  fall under one of those. Forgiveness, charity, and peace are the other important ones.

We just don’t know when life will be over for us. We must love and cherish all the time given, but also we must prepare. Do not procrastinate. You may think you have all the time in the world and then it is over in a flash of light or a blink of an eye, God’s or yours.

Don’t wait. Get busy cleaning out and organizing your house. The next adventure is going to be so much better, you want to be ready when it starts. If you take seriously the need to be ready and watching for Jesus, when the next life comes to call on you, there will be no sadness when you leave.  Unless Jesus returns to this earth sooner than that, either way, be ready!

 

 

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Waiting on Directions

Proverbs 3:5-6

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

As a chapter closes in my life I am at peace. I know that God has plans for me that will require me to look for a path. I am in the peaceful state of waiting on the Lord. I know me though, I am in the honeymoon phase of waiting. After awhile it gets less lovely and more challenging. I am going to hold fast to the verse above and make it my prayer.

I will trust in the Lord with all my heart; and I will lean not unto my own understanding.  In all thy ways I will acknowledge him, and he shall direct my paths.

Who is guiding your steps? It is important to know that answer. If it is you, then who is guiding your heart? If it is not you or God, then you need to look closely at your compass. Don’t be easily lead. It is too easy to get in to trouble of you follow a crowd or the wrong person.

It is a simple as this, if you aren’t following God then you are going the wrong way.

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Monday! So What?

I am so happy today is Monday! Why you ask, why not be like the rest of the world who are posting on Facebook and Twitter that the weekend it over, woe is me I have to go to work…..boo hoo….ok, I have done the same thing, posted the same negative things….a lot! Today I chose to be different. I chose to have a marvelous Monday. The sun is shining (between clouds) and I am alive. The Bible tells us,

1 Thessalonians 2:12 (CEV)12 We begged, encouraged, and urged each of you to live in a way that would honor God.

Waking up and being negative because it happens to be a Monday is not honoring God for the blessing of the new day. Maybe you were not supposed to wake up ! Guess what God woke you up! You are blessed!

I encourage you to honor God today and be happy for a beautiful Monday!

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Versatile Blogger

Well, I was nominated for the Versatile Blogger award! Thanks to http://thisbirddoesit.wordpress.com/ I have never been nominated for this award be fore!

So, here’s the deal with the award:

1. Thank the person who nominated you and include a link to their blog. (done)

2. Nominate 15 blogs for the Versatile Blogger Award, link to their page, and leave a comment notifying them of the  newly bestowed honor. (I’m not sure I know 15 others.)

3. Tell seven things about myself.

 

OK, so let’s start with the seven things about me…..in no particular order.

  1. I am a Christian.
  2. I am a wife.
  3. I am a mom and yes a grand mom.
  4. I am a writer.
  5. I am a librarian.
  6. I am unique child of God.
  7. I love everyone, even you!

 

SO here are my 15…well 13….I am still thinking about the last two.

  1. One Sheapard’s Stance 
  2. Fully Awake and Dangerous 
  3. One Woman Delivered 
  4. A Devoted Life 
  5. The Thesis Whisperer
  6. Growing My Olives 
  7. Life Leadership and Faith
  8. Kitty Palmer
  9. Thinking Out Loud
  10. Tuesdays With Teri
  11. AKA Gringita
  12. Simple Tom 
  13. Simple Earth