Saturday, January 17, 2009
Today we had a speaker name Dave Edwards. The message I got from him was that sometimes we take what we hear about God and Jesus and "water it down". We take what we like to hear and what is most convenient to us. We take the stuff about God being forgiving or God being loving and we just have selective hearing and not hear anything else. Then we will combine this with our lives and try to "have the best of both worlds." We can sometimes try and just keep our sinful lives and just say "God loves me and will forgive me." This really spoke to me because sometimes I will sin and "water down" what I know about God and Jesus.
Also, I realized that sometimes I can make God seem so small and weak - when He is actually big, strong, and always with me. He is the same God that parted the sea, defeated great armies, and created me. Lastly, I learned that the devil will try and use different strategies to destroy you. He will try to isolate you which gets you away from other believers and he will tempt you. Then through accusation he will try to get you to accuse others and God for problems. Lastly he will use personal leverage to make you think you can do things by yourself without God. Well that's all for tonight.
- Ethan Sweno
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