It has been one of those days. \u00a0I have been struggling trying to tame my heart and mind, but I’ve basically just ended up praying and asking God for forgiveness… a lot. \u00a0I know I should be in awe of my God because He has granted that forgiveness, because He has shown me His love, yet mostly what I feel is shame at what I am. \u00a0Maybe that is my problem (or at least one of them). \u00a0I should focus less on me and more on Him. \u00a0Duh. \u00a0Any ways this has been a depressing paragraph. \u00a0Onto the questions.<\/p>\n
I guess my title is miss-leading. \u00a0I think I actually only have one question. \u00a0How are we as humans to consider\/view ourselves? \u00a0I recently heard the saying “God doesn’t make junk.” \u00a0My first thought was “That’s a nice churchy way of trying to make people feel good about themselves.” \u00a0As I’ve thought about it more I haven’t been so sure. \u00a0On the one hand we all are junk, actually worse than junk seeing as how we (if we get our “rights”, what we deserve) should be in hell. \u00a0On the other hand Christ died for all of us, that the world could be saved which makes us invaluable (though still going to hell unless we acknowledge Christ’s lordship). \u00a0Both of these facts if taken by themselves lead to twisted views of God. \u00a0How often I act as if this is an either or question and forget that both views are Biblical (I’m not taking the time to prove either statement, but don’t take my word for it I’m wrong more often than I’m right). \u00a0I’m tired. \u00a0It is time to go to bed.<\/p>\n
Psalm 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.<\/em><\/p>\n Funny I should read this Psalm tonight.<\/p>\n Proverbs 11:12 He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.<\/em><\/p>\n P.S. \u00a0Reading over this again it looks kind of bleak. \u00a0That is ok. \u00a0I’m tired, and yes from time to time I have struggles and doubts. \u00a0It amazes me what a good nights sleep will do for those struggles and doubts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It has been one of those days. \u00a0I have been struggling trying to tame my heart and mind, but I’ve basically just ended up praying and asking God for forgiveness… a lot. \u00a0I know I should be in awe of my God because He has granted that forgiveness, because He has shown me His love, … Continue reading “Questions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}