Romans 1:21
ALTHOUGH THEY KNEW GOD,
THEY DID NOT GLORIFY HIM AS GOD.
Romans 1:21
Glorify- give honor.
Honor- to accept as valid.
If you knew me in 2003, you probably had mixed feelings about me. Part of you thought "there goes a woman of God!", but on the other hand you saw things that smelled bad. Lets be blunt. You saw sin. And you probably wondered about it.
How can a woman that prays, and fasts, and hears the voice of God...be so blind to her own sin?
If you had asked God, He would have pointed to this verse. It is clear, isn´t it? I knew God, I talked to God, I was in a christian ministry, I attended a christian church, I gave counseling (ouch)
But all along I had a big problem. Undealt with sin. My rebellion towards God. Yes, I did go to the jungle when He asked me to and so on and so forth. But inside I did not honor God AS GOD. I did not glorify God AS GOD.
There was too much of God that did not fit my beliefs, my doctrine. He made me feel uncomfortable. I wanted a Twinkey Wonder type of God. Nice, sweet, fluffy and filled with cream...cheap.
Do you know what happens when we do that? Just continue the verse and you will have the answer to your question of "how can it be? This woman so blind to her sin!"...the verse reads on:
THEY DID NOT GLORIFY HIM AS GOD,
BUT BECAME VAIN IN THEIR REASONINGS,
AND THEIR SENSELESS MINDS HAVE BEEN DARKENED.
No deep math needed to see the solution to this problem.I did not accept the God of the Bible, I filled my brain with reasonings of why this couldn´t be or why this had changed after the cross...and I ended up in darkness. How sad. How simple. How bad.
If you continue to read you discover:
THEY EXCHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD FOR A LIE
ouch, but please go on...
FOR THIS CAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN THEM UP TO SHAMEFUL LUSTS
sigh. There were three/four reasons why I lost that revival. One of them reasons was lust.
simple mathematics 1+1=2.
I didn´t honor God as God
My mind walked into darkness
God gave me up to shameful lust.
sigh.
I still feel the pain, not only of having lost a revival. The pain of living 40 years of my life without honoring God as God.
Without accepting Him as valid
There is pain, but there is now true hope in my heart. For simple math teaches me that if I invert the conditions the results will change.
Now I will honor God as God.
My mind will walk out of darkness.
God will set me free from lust...and so much more.
I am truly happy. All these years I have been striving to make a straight line with a compass. Now I have a ruler in my hand! I don´t even know how to use it, I haven´t even tried. But I know that I know that this time...I will be able to draw straight lines!!!
I have been encountered by the God who is God.
Honoring such a God is my present ambition.
Accepting Him as valid will be true love for God
THEY DID NOT GLORIFY HIM AS GOD.
Romans 1:21
Glorify- give honor.
Honor- to accept as valid.
If you knew me in 2003, you probably had mixed feelings about me. Part of you thought "there goes a woman of God!", but on the other hand you saw things that smelled bad. Lets be blunt. You saw sin. And you probably wondered about it.
How can a woman that prays, and fasts, and hears the voice of God...be so blind to her own sin?
If you had asked God, He would have pointed to this verse. It is clear, isn´t it? I knew God, I talked to God, I was in a christian ministry, I attended a christian church, I gave counseling (ouch)
But all along I had a big problem. Undealt with sin. My rebellion towards God. Yes, I did go to the jungle when He asked me to and so on and so forth. But inside I did not honor God AS GOD. I did not glorify God AS GOD.
There was too much of God that did not fit my beliefs, my doctrine. He made me feel uncomfortable. I wanted a Twinkey Wonder type of God. Nice, sweet, fluffy and filled with cream...cheap.
Do you know what happens when we do that? Just continue the verse and you will have the answer to your question of "how can it be? This woman so blind to her sin!"...the verse reads on:
THEY DID NOT GLORIFY HIM AS GOD,
BUT BECAME VAIN IN THEIR REASONINGS,
AND THEIR SENSELESS MINDS HAVE BEEN DARKENED.
No deep math needed to see the solution to this problem.I did not accept the God of the Bible, I filled my brain with reasonings of why this couldn´t be or why this had changed after the cross...and I ended up in darkness. How sad. How simple. How bad.
If you continue to read you discover:
THEY EXCHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD FOR A LIE
ouch, but please go on...
FOR THIS CAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN THEM UP TO SHAMEFUL LUSTS
sigh. There were three/four reasons why I lost that revival. One of them reasons was lust.
simple mathematics 1+1=2.
I didn´t honor God as God
My mind walked into darkness
God gave me up to shameful lust.
sigh.
I still feel the pain, not only of having lost a revival. The pain of living 40 years of my life without honoring God as God.
Without accepting Him as valid
There is pain, but there is now true hope in my heart. For simple math teaches me that if I invert the conditions the results will change.
Now I will honor God as God.
My mind will walk out of darkness.
God will set me free from lust...and so much more.
I am truly happy. All these years I have been striving to make a straight line with a compass. Now I have a ruler in my hand! I don´t even know how to use it, I haven´t even tried. But I know that I know that this time...I will be able to draw straight lines!!!
I have been encountered by the God who is God.
Honoring such a God is my present ambition.
Accepting Him as valid will be true love for God
posted by thisfool @ 7:28 AM
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