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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2019 12:55:41 GMT -5
I feel the Lord's smile when I enjoy some innocent thing like a healthy meal or a flower or a painting so much that I "forget" to be worried about
My weight
Career goals
How I look to others
Other insecurities
It's like time stops and it's just me being thankful for being alive.
So that just leads me to my question
Are humility and self-forgetfulness the same thing?
Or do they simply go hand in hand?
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Post by 2fw8212a on Mar 13, 2019 13:06:30 GMT -5
Are humility and self-forgetfulness the same thing? Or do they simply go hand in hand? I believe it is more a result of trusting in God.
When you know your life is in His hands, you do not worry about the future.
"Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright; For the future of that man is peace." - Psalm 37:37
"You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You." - Isaiah 26:3
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Post by John on Mar 13, 2019 13:29:54 GMT -5
Are humility and self-forgetfulness the same thing? Or do they simply go hand in hand? I believe it is more a result of trusting in God.
When you know your life is in His hands, you do not worry about the future.
"Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright; For the future of that man is peace." - Psalm 37:37
"You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You." - Isaiah 26:3 Great answer. I can't improve on it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2019 13:34:05 GMT -5
I do trust God.
No longer as someone who just has heard God is trustworthy.
He told me Himself when I sought Him.
He reminds me every moment of every day Himself.
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Post by John on Mar 24, 2019 19:37:54 GMT -5
I do trust God. No longer as someone who just has heard God is trustworthy. He told me Himself when I sought Him. He reminds me every moment of every day Himself. Do you mean that when you seek God, you feel His presence, so you know He is real, or do you mean He tells you that He is faithful through His Word or through an audible voice? I wasn't sure how to take what you said.
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Post by Cletus on Mar 24, 2019 21:31:07 GMT -5
I do not think humility and self forgetfulness are the same. self forget fullness is when you just forget about yourself. being humble is when you are very aware of yourself but you lower yourself, your heart, what you are accustomed to. to me being humble is when you are not in a mindset of oh, thats beneath me. take for instance the one guy who said i thank thee i am not like these others i tithe and fast every week... he was prideful... but the other fella... he would not even so much as lift his eyes to heaven, and he smote his breast saying, Lord have mercy on me... a sinner. this is humility. The man was self aware that he was a sinner... but he humbled himself before God. Being humble can also be something simple like for me... i pray God keep the work coming because i do not have a 8 to 5 job. i do contract work. when a job comes i dont want to do if i turn my nose up at the work i am being prideful and telling God your provision isnt good enough, or rather i am to good for your provision. and so its not just it is what it is but it is what I make out of it.
humility is bringing our self down, not necessarily humiliation. but like bowing down.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 15:49:54 GMT -5
I do trust God. No longer as someone who just has heard God is trustworthy. He told me Himself when I sought Him. He reminds me every moment of every day Himself. Do you mean that when you seek God, you feel His presence, so you know He is real, or do you mean He tells you that He is faithful through His Word or through an audible voice? I wasn't sure how to take what you said.
The Lord speaks through His Word, through other people, through angels, through the beauty and orderliness of Creation, through music, through good food ---- When his Presence is magnified in my heart, every one of those things declare the glory of God and that He is to be worshipped above all created Beings.
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Post by John on Mar 27, 2019 8:59:41 GMT -5
Do you mean that when you seek God, you feel His presence, so you know He is real, or do you mean He tells you that He is faithful through His Word or through an audible voice? I wasn't sure how to take what you said.
The Lord speaks through His Word, through other people, through angels, through the beauty and orderliness of Creation, through music, through good food ---- When his Presence is magnified in my heart, every one of those things declare the glory of God and that He is to be worshipped above all created Beings. The creation does testify to the reality of God.
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