Monday, October 04, 2004
I learn to not really care about who reads my xanga/blog. Those who cares will be interested.
Read Grace's and Pam's xanga today, and since i dont have them subscribed (until today), i did something i haven't done in a long time - xanga surf. Wellz their entries made me feel like i have a lot to say.
I got a cellphone TODAY - rather than telling all the people all the time that i will get one, i just decided today that i will just go and get one and be on the move - i think that helps generally in life.
God is good. Sundays and Fridays have been good to me, there's always new things you find yourself realizing in God's truth. Today as PK talked about allowing the scriptures to speak to you and let it speaks for itself rather than you look into it too much with your own bias, it made me realize that this faith i have is mine - not given to me by my parents or pastor - but my own. It sounds weird to say this - since I'm a PK and all - but I got a deeper feeling of how my faith is closer to me than I thought. All this blabbering is not helpful to my readers. These couple of weeks as PK preached on orderly worship, and when he talked about speaking in tongue and about how when Paul uses the rhetoric in Corinthians "does all speak in tongue" it implied that the answer was no (there were also other scriptures that backs such notion), and tongue is a gift not for everyone. My original understanding from my home youth pastor was that everyone with the holy spirit can speak in tongue and all Christians have the spirit, which we all agree. I feel that this is a minor pt to be frustrated over, and I am not, because having been with my home youth pastor and Pastor Ken - they are both people of God, by their experiences and how God has worked in their life - regardless of which is the correct view. However this did make me realize that my faith is my faith, no some thing that's been preached to me and I have to decide what I head is right. That spirit of discernment - i think both of them will agree is needed. Secondly "allowing the scriptures to speak for itself" that was also something that i find myself and people in general overlook unconsciously. I will let the scriptures do that now - which means more analysis and focused Bible study and really see what the scriptures is saying rather than reading into it on my own. Maybe I did before, maybe I didnt, but now I have the insight to realize that I shouldn't. Praise God for that.
After all of that - I will ask my dad for a third opinion about the gift of tongue. Part of discernment is asking several people of God. Praise the Lord that I have all these wonderful spiritual resources in my life.
Keep me close to you Lord.
And as He stands in victory
Sins' curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought the precious blood of Christ
Amen
posted by Samuel on 1:53 AM
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