Posts Tagged ‘forgiveness’
Repentance & Obdience
I have grown up knowing what obedience means. My parents taught me to respect and obey the authority figures in my life. I’m aware that there are “bad actors” in authority, but the majority of people in positions of authority are good and honorable. I was taught to respect my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles…
Read MoreI Know
There are things that I have learned that I can’t “unlearn”. There are things that I’m aware of that have made an indelible mark on me. Some things I know were hard to hear. Some things I know, I sought to deliberately learn. There are other things I know that I wish I had never…
Read MorePunishment
I grew up in a home where discipline was part of our life. If I disobeyed my parents, there were consequences. I also did some stupid things when I was in elementary school and received the “board of education applied to the seat of understanding”! Side note, if I put two wallets in my back…
Read MorePremeditated Disobedience
It is one thing to accidently or inadvertently sin, it is totally another thing to plan it out. One thing I hardly ever do is completely count the cost of my disobedience. There is usually a cost to my disobedience with the Lord and it’s not cheap. I can recount many sins that I’ve been…
Read MoreI Did or I Did Not
I feel like life is made up of hundreds of choices every day. The simpler my life is, the less choices I have to make. When I’m crazy busy, I have lots of choices to make and they can’t always be delegated to someone else. When the dust of my day clears, I really make…
Read MoreUse Me
I have been “used” before by someone who has little regard for me as a person or as a professional. I have to say that it hurts to be treated as “disposable”. I have to confess that I’ve used people in the past to get something I wanted and then when they were no longer…
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