tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439195.post110653846367418672..comments2024-02-12T22:18:04.208-06:00Comments on In Theory: Post-Restoration Hope #7: To Seek AgainFajitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704189756009543355noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439195.post-1106760274155560662005-01-26T11:24:00.000-06:002005-01-26T11:24:00.000-06:00I'd like to add a number 8. to your list:
Watchin...I'd like to add a number 8. to your list:<br /><br /><A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fgregtaylor.blogspot.com%2F2005%2F01%2Ftsunami-one-month-ago.html%23comments">Watching another seeker seek.</A>Keith Brentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08370891993969932472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439195.post-1106687415050475822005-01-25T15:10:00.000-06:002005-01-25T15:10:00.000-06:00Great comments. Can't respond to all of them, but ...Great comments. Can't respond to all of them, but you all are making me think. Thanks.Fajitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704189756009543355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439195.post-1106679222530639112005-01-25T12:53:00.000-06:002005-01-25T12:53:00.000-06:00Amen to jettybetty’s post!
An answer to those w...Amen to jettybetty’s post!<br /><br />An answer to those who question God is that He is in control, His perspective is perfect and trustworthy, unlike ours. Why would He have to justify Himself to us or apologize for what He knows and we don’t? Those who are known by God and seek to do His will come to see circumstances through Him rather than looking for God in circumstances.<br /><br />Not everyone who seeks and finds Jesus waiting for them is willing to fix their eyes on Him exclusively and follow His sacrificial example. A relationship with Him (and with others) always costs, and “finders” who are content to let Jesus pay it all are like the rich young ruler who was not willing to invest "sweat equity." <br /><br />For those who are still seeking God, there is comfort in what Paul said, according to Jesus’s promise: God [has arranged] so that men and women would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02861162248908653187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439195.post-1106671715552803922005-01-25T10:48:00.000-06:002005-01-25T10:48:00.000-06:00Your posts continue to generate much discussion, e...Your posts continue to generate much discussion, even if we fail to include you in it! :) Thanks for causing us to reflect, seek, and search. Just like most everybody else who is reading your posts, I could relate to what you were discussing. Jim Woodroof encouraged all of us to be searchers and seekers, and then when Mike got to Searcy he REALLY took that encouragement to another level. He didn't give us any choice! :) It was a blessing.<br /><br />Thanks for challenging us brother!David Uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04087224962012899721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439195.post-1106611875767106282005-01-24T18:11:00.000-06:002005-01-24T18:11:00.000-06:00Same background here, too. I am thankful for my h...Same background here, too. I am thankful for my heritage. I just don't agree with a lot of it.<br /><br />My answer to your first question. The desire to seek is something God does in a heart for anyone to seek at any time. When you look at your list of answers given by your group, those are all things God does--perhaps with the intent of getting attention, thus seeking can start again or begin whatever the circumstance.<br /><br />I don't consider myself a Calvinist, and I am definitely not Armenian--I just think God is at the center of the whole process. I suppose I think I should be looking at what God is doing, not what I am doing. That way, at least for me, all my praise flows to him. I 100% agree with you statement: There is something seriously wrong if taking comfort in salvation removes my desire for seeking God. I think what I am trying to say totally agrees with your statement.<br /><br />To your second question, yes happiness is a barrier to God, but so is sadness. I have had people tell me out of their pain, that the God I know cannot be loving if he allows them the pain they are in.<br /><br />I want to be a seeker too, not 99%, but 100%.jettybettyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04351615360394477260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439195.post-1106596258965343702005-01-24T13:50:00.000-06:002005-01-24T13:50:00.000-06:00But, just like a good marriage, it is o.k. to get ...But, just like a good marriage, it is o.k. to get comfortable. That doesn’t mean you quit listening to your partner and try to fulfill their needs. God will always push us out of our comfort zone if we listen to Him, and yet I think He wants us to feel comfortable and protected in His arms. <br /><br />I came from the same background, trying to assure my salvation everyday, not knowing or understanding grace. When I discovered it, I was set free. Maybe those shackles are still too much on the forefront of my memory, but when I was set free I wanted to soar. I want so much more from every worship experience that I don’t think I can ever be fat and happy. But, I think there is a great need for contentment too. Making a daily choice to be all we can be will keep us on the right track.Donna Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01591270068580850954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439195.post-1106595343331852432005-01-24T13:35:00.000-06:002005-01-24T13:35:00.000-06:00Chris, your group must have been listening in on o...Chris, your group must have been listening in on our small group last night, as we were talking about transformation, and one of the baddest threads we got onto was how hard is is to WANT transformation when you are just plain comfortable.<br /><br />Only two things motivate people to change: escape from something unpleasant, or reaching out to gain something desirable. When you feel neither unpleasant nor in need of anything else, you won't change. That's why your post is so "to the point" to many of us, because we just don't SEE that we need to grow. Life is good! Inertia takes over, and we can be in danger without even knowing it.dutrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04851479289037759839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439195.post-1106585040588882702005-01-24T10:44:00.000-06:002005-01-24T10:44:00.000-06:00Chris,
I don't know what to say, Although we don't...Chris,<br />I don't know what to say, Although we don't know each other, You are putting words down that I really understand. A existance too similar to my own upbringing and life. I can add a time in life where my work or lack there of, required a dependance on God. That makes you a seeker. There is more to seek than just imitation of Jesus. There is relationship. A growing, deeper and deeper, knowing of him. Real dicipleship I think is that relationship not just following his example, but spending time together. That Life to the Full that he promised has got to be so much more than just life "unending".believingthomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07278359951689938736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439195.post-1106578778768943172005-01-24T08:59:00.000-06:002005-01-24T08:59:00.000-06:00Once you have been chosen by God and believe His p...Once you have been chosen by God and believe His promises, what is there to seek any longer--unless it is seeking to imitate Jesus? (1Thess 2:14) All of the ways we imitate Jesus involve loss, cost, sacrifice--the common denominator of your list of answers.<br /><br />What if we changed the definitions of "fat" to mean faithful, available and teachable and "happiness" to be the result of fulfilling our obligations to others?<br /><br />Then we would have to ask ourselves, what piece of furniture will I donate today? What am I willing to lose on behalf of my Savior, in order to advance His kingdom?leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02861162248908653187noreply@blogger.com