As human beings, we make choices and decisions to be happy first and foremost. These choices predicated on happiness and personal taste may be influenced secondly by social acceptance. If you are a person of faith, you also make choices to please the deity to which you ascribe sovereignty over your life and its time. We pray that the Lord will help us number our days. See Psalms 90:12. In such faith, regardless of denomination, the direction you take as inspired may not always be defined by what others value in the long or short run. It may be inspired by growth and spiritual maturity. You can always say no to challenges of faith and growth. In the long run, who are we to decide who stands approved before God in spite of apparent circumstance? See 1st John 1:9. God is not approving of people based on their balance sheet on the last day of their life. Paul the apostle may have had a bit more change than Peter or James or the alternative may have been the case. They did not worry about competing or being more right or socially approved of on such material existence.
James 1:22-25Living Bible (TLB)
"22 And remember, it is a message to obey, not just to listen to. So don’t fool yourselves. 23 For if a person just listens and doesn't obey, he is like a man looking at his face in a mirror; 24 as soon as he walks away, he can’t see himself anymore or remember what he looks like. 25 But if anyone keeps looking steadily into God’s law for free men, he will not only remember it but he will do what it says.."
No amount of money or wealth will give us the authority to break God's law and eschew repentance. See Deuteronomy 11:26-28.
This may also help in how we think of our children. They are God's creation and miracle as delivered from the womb, capable to breathe on their own. That is a miracle of life. Their size and shape was determined by Him although they may not fit your desire and expectation based on old wives' tales in your immediate culture that carries diverse gene pools. "Fat" as you say or "filled' as you might say is not proof of reproductive viability. Who are you to reject, as a birth mother or father, God's creation? Read Psalms 27:10 and Psalms 139:13. God made them good and accepted them in spite of our shortness in love and understanding before you gave them away.
New!Clean Pure Christlike energy to move 1063 pounds of bricks in one sheer movement using the power of a man's back or horses requires energy.That is all!Abraham had no four wheel engined vehicle but he had faith and common sense to do whatever God demanded of him in a way that was efficient and respectful to all of God's creation of which he was a part.Abraham also had no written law; also true for Joseph or Jacob or Moses when Moses crossed the red sea.All posts are authored by Warren A.Lyon.
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