tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post6970212289894443332..comments2023-10-08T07:15:19.060-04:00Comments on One Day At A Time: "Then" Is "Now" !!Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05716971493153383770noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-76441962228887729812010-06-29T18:10:44.932-04:002010-06-29T18:10:44.932-04:00Maureen, I love this post. I really needed to hear...Maureen, I love this post. I really needed to hear it today, too. I get ahead of God, and start to think, "if only" way too much. Thanks for the reminder to enjoy the moments, knowing that He has designed each one!Dena Dyerhttp://www.denadyer.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-91183207667062972732010-06-27T10:11:40.456-04:002010-06-27T10:11:40.456-04:00Thank God, Romans 8 comes next!Thank God, Romans 8 comes next!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-72111119536857289142010-06-26T08:38:57.198-04:002010-06-26T08:38:57.198-04:00Absolutely Anon. Idols of the heart. Constantly ra...Absolutely Anon. Idols of the heart. Constantly raising themselves up. Praise God that we can say, as Paul did:<br />"Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin." Romans 7:24,25)Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05716971493153383770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-46413315717907442062010-06-25T23:09:20.933-04:002010-06-25T23:09:20.933-04:00“You turned to God from idols to serve the living ...“You turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.” 1 Thessalonians 1:9<br /><br />You and I are not integrated, unified, whole persons. Our hearts are multi-divided. There is a board room in every heart. Big table. Leather chairs. Coffee. Bottled water. Whiteboard. A committee sits around the table. There is the social self, the private self, the work self, the sexual self, the recreational self, the religious self, and others. The committee is arguing and debating and voting. Constantly agitated and upset. Rarely can they come to a unanimous, wholehearted decision. We tell ourselves we’re this way because we’re so busy with so many responsibilities. The truth is, we’re just divided, unfocused, hesitant, unfree.<br /><br />That kind of person can “accept Jesus” in either of two ways. One way is to invite him onto the committee. Give him a vote too. But then he becomes just one more complication. The other way to “accept Jesus” is to say to him, “My life isn’t working. Please come in and fire my committee, every last one of them. I hand myself over to you. Please run my whole life for me.” That is not complication; that is salvation.<br /><br />“Accepting Jesus” is not just adding Jesus. It is also subtracting the idols.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com