God Made You Fit

[warneckutz]

If the enemy can deceive us into believing a lie, they can control our life in that area. We are saints whom God has declared righteous. Believing the enemies lie will lock us into a defeated, fruitless life, but believing God’s truth about who we are will set us free. It’s imperative to our growth and maturity that we believe God’s truth about who we are. We must learn how to resolve previous conflicts or the emotional baggage will accumulate as we continue to withdraw from life. The past will control our life as our options for handling it continue to decrease. Perceiving those events from the perspective of our new identity which God sealed in the Savior is what starts the process of healing those damaged emotions, because we have the privilege of evaluating our past experience in the light of who we are now as opposed to who we were then. Since their primary weapon is the lie, our belt of truth is continually being attacked. If they can disable us in the area of truth, we become an easy target for their other attacks. We stand firm in the truth by relation everything we do to the truth of God’s word and when we learn to live in the truth on a daily basis, we will grow to love the truth because we will have nothing to hide. It’s not wise for us to live on the enemies level.

That's why I stay above them.

 

[warneckutz]

There was that time I brought you pumpkin gobs at the gym... it was a blessed day.

It was heavenly...

 

[newnature]

That's why I stay above them.

Here is how I pump up my brain waves every day in gym of life. Relationally, forgiveness is crucial to our maturity, it’s the glue that holds the body of the Savior together. Instead of insisting on the unity of the mind, we need to preserve the unity by taking the initiative to be the peacemaker in our relationships. Forgiveness is difficult for us, because it pulls against our concept of justice; we want revenge for offenses suffered, but if we don’t let offenders off our hook, we are hooked to them. We need to let go, because the unforgiving believer is yoked to the past or to a person and is not free. We shouldn’t try to rationalize or explain the believer’s behavior, forgiveness deals with our pain, not another’s behavior. Forgiveness is agreeing to live with the consequences of another believer’s wrong, our only choice is whether we will do so in the bitterness of unforgiveness or the freedom of forgiveness. Forgiveness is a choice, forgetting may be a result of forgiveness, but it’s never the means of forgiveness and when we bring up the past against other, we haven’t forgiven them. Forgiveness doesn’t mean that we must be a doormat to their continual wrongdoing, it’s okay to forgive another’s past wrong and at the same time take a stand against future wrongdoing.

 

[warneckutz]

Here is how I pump up my brain waves every day in gym of life. Relationally, forgiveness is crucial to our maturity, it’s the glue that holds the body of the Savior together. Instead of insisting on the unity of the mind, we need to preserve the unity by taking the initiative to be the peacemaker in our relationships. Forgiveness is difficult for us, because it pulls against our concept of justice; we want revenge for offenses suffered, but if we don’t let offenders off our hook, we are hooked to them. We need to let go, because the unforgiving believer is yoked to the past or to a person and is not free. We shouldn’t try to rationalize or explain the believer’s behavior, forgiveness deals with our pain, not another’s behavior. Forgiveness is agreeing to live with the consequences of another believer’s wrong, our only choice is whether we will do so in the bitterness of unforgiveness or the freedom of forgiveness. Forgiveness is a choice, forgetting may be a result of forgiveness, but it’s never the means of forgiveness and when we bring up the past against other, we haven’t forgiven them. Forgiveness doesn’t mean that we must be a doormat to their continual wrongdoing, it’s okay to forgive another’s past wrong and at the same time take a stand against future wrongdoing.

I can't forgive the dude that won't stop messing around on the equipment I need to use... pretty much that constitutes an ass whoopin'...

 

[newnature]

I can't forgive the dude that won't stop messing around on the equipment I need to use... pretty much that constitutes an ass whoopin'...

In the gym of life, finding rest sounds rather foreign to us, an idea too unrealistic or too good to be true, because somewhere in our life we have been involved in the relationships of our environments that were based on conditions. Standards may have become so deeply ingrained that we are not even aware of them, let alone conscious of how to get free from their tyranny, constantly trying to measure up to standards that are higher than we can reach. This is why God allows all kinds of things into our lives which he uses to strip us of our personal sense of worth. God is making us conformable to the death of Jesus so that in living this experience we might become conformed in his resurrection. This process is not enjoyable, because it’s hard to learn that life cannot be controlled, it’s far too spontaneous and rambunctious to be fully understood.