Orr v'emet

I'm with you Yod. I live in Alabama on the coast and my sister lives in Mississippi on the coast and I can tell you there are no places that look like that. I have also been through more hurricanes than I can count and have never seen anything like that. I think it's totally fake!

Suz, I have seen and experienced what situations like this can do to a marriage and a family. Nothing good can come out of it. There isn't a question of how you should end this relationship. You either end it or you don't. There is no hanging on and there is no 'just being friends' if you both have developed feelings for each other. Both of you have reached a point where you can't go back to being friends. You have to decide between your husband and family or some guy you think you have fallen for. God's desire for you is to stop what you're doing and commit to your husband and family. Have you told your husband how you feel? I mean how desperate you feel? That you are out looking for something that you feel your marriage is missing? It may take you being totally honest with him for him to realize that something in the marriage needs to change. The choice is yours.

Well, when my wife wants my attention it's not very difficult for her to get it regardless of my state of mind or how emersed in myself or anything for that matter. Seems like God would be capable of at least the same don't you think? Not to mention the fact that she is capable of getting my attention even after 13 years of marriage (meaning I've learned to tune her out when I want to ) I think I would notice if God was trying to get my attention. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What makes you think that the people here at worthy are sent by God to get your attention and direct you to Him? You commented earlier in your post that being bitter is a human emotion that would be "unfit" for God. So what makes you think that Him revealing himself to you in the way that your wife would (in some human form) is fit for God too? God could have decided to forgive the sins of the world by speaking it, thinking it whatever. Sending Jesus as he did shows us how much God truly loves us and wants us to be part of His family. Jesus' sacrifice for us on the cross shows us the love and desire that he had for us. I'm sure it wasn't easy to be mocked, beaten, tortured and killed for people that would surely spit in his face. He loved you and I enough to take a chance that we would one day choose him.

I'm pretty much devoted to Hillsong and Mercy Me. Although...my husband just bought a Kutless cd and I was surprised to see how much I really like it. Perhaps there's a rocker in me after all.

Yeah...it's always great to get news like this when you live 15 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. Thank the Lord we were able to get a generator this year so at least we can run a fan when the lights go out! I really hate hurricane season!

Don't worry about anything, instead pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank Him for all He has done. If you do this you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. Phillipians 4: 6-7

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Are you even old enough to be drinking? If you aren't that's a whole other discussion. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, I have never got drunk. Never drunk more than a glass at occasions. I'm not a drunk!!! Anyway. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I hope everyone gets me alright on this. I don't want people thinking I'm a drunk at 14....... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I really don't want to de-rail this thread but I have to respond. Yomo...no one thinks you are a drunk but at 14 you shouldn't be drinking at all...especially since you are under the legal age limit. That violates not only man's laws but God's laws. Not to mention the fact that it's not good for someone your age. Something for you to consider.

Are you even old enough to be drinking? If you aren't that's a whole other discussion.

While I would agree with you Tess, I would say that I don't believe this is the way God would have it...it wouldn't be His perfect plan. So...just because He can use the evil for good doesn't make it right.

I wonder if the world is looking for the "good messages" in these books/movies.

I think people are "mean" simply because they need Jesus...this goes for the unsaved as well as "christians". It's easy to look at these type people with our worldly eyes and only see the hurt that they cause. It's another thing alltogether to look at them through the eyes of Christ and see that the reason they are like they are is because they need a Savior to change their hearts. Pray God gives you the ability to see others as He sees them. People will always be mean but seeing them as Christ sees them will change your life. God bless!

I read this article this morning and it really outraged me. I think if this guy loved Jesus like he claims to then he would treat Jesus' name with the respect and reverence that it deserves and not name himself that.

Sue: The dilema that you present here is one that I very much understand and have wrestled with myself. As a matter of fact it is not an issue that has been resolved for me either to one degree but to another it has. I would probably confuse many to say that I believe my postion with Christ, in heaven one day is secure though I don't buy OSAS. I completely agree that there are many who say they are "christians" who haven't considered the cost and become a disciple (Luke 14:25-35) as Jesus describes one (not to say one can be perfect). I don't know that the issue will ever be resolved for me in the sense that I wouldn't say that I can get on one side of the issue 100%. What it boiled down to for me was the question of, what does it really matter for me which I believe? If I'm doing what Jesus tells me to do, to be one of his disciples, then it doesn't matter if I believe my position is secure or not. I will be on the right road and I will see Him in heaven. If I'm not doing all that I can to be a disciple then really, my eternal position is not my only concern. A relationship with God isn't just for a free trip to heaven (or my ticket to avoid hell). It's much more than that. So I say all that to say, essentially, what does it really matter if you're doing what you're supposed to be doing? (not that I don't enjoy still studying the word on this issue and discussing it with other believers)