tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452170266037097261.post420972174634091947..comments2023-09-01T03:17:02.580-07:00Comments on Adventist Homemaker: Your Life Still Counts - A Book ReviewCassandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09319901329438691914noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452170266037097261.post-20493666432780156732015-04-04T02:15:12.391-07:002015-04-04T02:15:12.391-07:00Are you, by chance, INTJ on the Myers-Briggs? I a...Are you, by chance, INTJ on the Myers-Briggs? I ask because the "form mental picture of what should be, then get angry / disappointed when reality doesn't match" is typical of that personality type (trust me on this...).<br /><br />As for the religious implications, I often wonder about that myself: "I have sinned by by what I have done and by what I have left undone. How can God forgive this when I fall short every single day???"<br /><br />I have to ask Him who was nailed to a cross... and have faith that He did it for us all. If He could not only forgive Peter for denying Him THREE TIMES but then make him the head of His church, there may be hope for me.<br /><br />Two final thoughts:<br /><br />In <i>Mere Christianity</i>, Lewis gives his view of damnation - God's punishment of us - that it's NOT an angry, vengeful God casting sinners into eternal torment. God, who loves us even more perfectly than we love our best-loved person, wouldn't do that. Rather, Lewis has it that damnation is OUR choice to deliberately cut ourselves off from God, to purposefully leave His house (cf. the Prodigal Son). We can come home at any time, clad as we are in the rags of our sins, and He will kill the fatted calf and sit us at His table. It's a comfort, a source of awe, and even of shame (I don't deserve it).<br /><br />If you've never seen "The Green Pastures", there is a scene at the end where God, completely fed up with sinful and disobedient man, is trying hard to ignore the pleas of a devout man. The point of the scene is that God has an inspiration: "If I lived as one of them, I might understand how they can reject me one moment, then call for me the next. Yes..."<br /><br />Don't know if it's good theology, but it struck me very powerfully.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452170266037097261.post-22604948149545440232015-04-01T18:54:03.495-07:002015-04-01T18:54:03.495-07:00I am trusting that God will always forgive my mist...I am trusting that God will always forgive my mistakes, intentional or otherwise, and accept me as I am. <br />I do think all the negative aspects of my childhood has shown me what NOT to do in raising my own kids. I remember the lesson in psychology 101 that said, we tend to raise out kids the way we were raised ... to which I thought "NO WAY"!<br />I am so happy when I see how my kids turned out and the fine job they are doing with their own kids.Julie Fukudahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15704374750710761269noreply@blogger.com