has anyone gotten the idea that i love my dog? i dont think it would take a rocket scientist to figure out that samson pretty much owns ME not ME owning HIM. maybe i need to start asking every day samson how may i serve you today? LOL. but i cant help but see thru samson how God has a phenomenal sense of humor and loves us, warts and all , just like i love my boy (stinking spoiled brat though he may be) God would have to use the most willful, rowdy, bullheaded dog on the planet-an english bull terrier, to show me my own willfull, obstinate, fallen flesh nature, that at times STILL wants its own way, and STILL wants to run the show. im like OK,OK,OK,OKKKKKKKKKKKAAYYYYYYYY ALREADY!!!!! GOD, I GET IT!!!!! YOUVE MADE YOUR POINT. THATS ME ALL OVER!!!!!!!
how many of us have ever tried to tell a loved one, that maybe the way theyre training their kids in the way they should go..well..errrr. this MIGHT NOT be the best way to go about it. well, theres this stupid stuffed dog that our boy loves to make a grab for whenever he sees it. alan got it into his head that the best way to break samson of it was not only to keep samson from grabbing it, but he takes it one step further and makes it a point of presenting it to samson, then taking it away from him, telling him NO!!!! everytime he makes a grab for it. i can see that samson is getting more and more worked up. does alan listen to me????NOPE!!! okay, so, later on, samson is throwing a fit wanting to come inside. what does he do once i let him in? he practically knocks me down, and , like a heat-seeking missile, heads straight to that computer room, and comes out with that ignorant little dog in his drooling grasp, and looks at me like YOU JUST TRY TO GET IT FROM ME!!!!!!!! the more that alan had made it a point that samson couldnt have it, the more samson was like you wanna bet???? the fact that i managed to get the dog back, both with its head and my fingers intact, is indeed proof that there is a God, and thu, that miracles didnt stop when Jesus fed the multitudes and turned water into wine.
GRACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God isnt just all about telling us what we cant have and cant do. and when He does, He also makes it very plain. 1. ther boundaries He places around us thru His Word, is because He loves us and has our welfare at heart. boundaries are freedom, not restriction, becaue the boundaries God wants to place around us actually frees us from the control of our fallen natures. 2. He wants us to see the things He DOES want us to have, and allow Him to change our hearts where we WILL want the right things. 3. He doent taunt us with what we cant have, then take it away from us. if we lose what He gives us, its because we freely chose to walk away from it. growing up, i had this legalistic concept of a God that does nothing but rag on us and made it a point of telling us what we CANT have, i gagged on it. its part of the rebellious sin nature the more you try to rub in something i cant have, the more im bound and determined, by whatever means necessary, and if i have to run right over your feet to get it, OH WELLLLL, THATS THE BREAKS. this was the basic logistics of my old modus operandi 1.what can i get you to do for me? 2. youre in my way. to truly want to obey ones master, at the heart of it is GRACE!!!!!!! THE GRACE OF GOD HAS ACTUALLY MADE ME WANT TO HONOR,OBEY, AND RESPECT OTHERS. understanding what His Son did for me has made me actually WANT to p[lace the needs of others over my own.
the heart of any loving Father has to be LOVE. if all we get are nagatives, dont do this dont do that, that child is going to end up hating that father.GRACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that was the lesson i got thru samson the other day
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