Have You Ever Wondered ?

[Starise]

1 hour ago, clancy said:

I pour out my emotions or speak to Him from the Heart, quite often, I only speak to Him like that, never a human ,not even my family, He is the only one who fully understands me....once I do this, instead of keeping it all in to myself,  I have a sense of peace, it’s like I’ve offloaded all of my rubbish on to him...it’s taken me a long time to learn to do that..

Its growing in our “ REAL” relationship together.

Rubbish would be a good description of the things I unload on Him too. PTL He understands us so deeply and even tells us to cast our cares upon Him because He cares for us.

[Guest clancy]

13 minutes ago, Starise said:

Rubbish would be a good description of the things I unload on Him too. PTL He understands us so deeply and even tells us to cast our cares upon Him because He cares for us.

Amen!!.....you have changed your profile pic, awww, I’m gonna miss chewy.chewbacca,....I thought you were a new member at first.?

Edited May 12, 2021 by clancy

[missmuffet]

On 5/11/2021 at 7:22 AM, Starise said:

The Bible tells us the things we need to know. Yet there are times I have these questions about what happened "between the lines" what was unsaid?

Some teachers who teach  Bible stories we all know make many assumptions as to how things went down and as a result we might walk away with a slightly different perception than what actually happened.

For instance, Take the story of Joseph sold as a slave and taken to Egypt. Later working for a prominent Egyptian, accused of adultery with his boss's wife. Sent to prison unfairly for something he didn't do. Reached a place of respect in the prison. Interpreted the dreams of two men in Pharaoh's court. His thank you from the one who was spared? He was forgotten and left to rot in jail for a long long time.

Yet NEVER do we read of him complaining or being broken and we ascribe almost superhuman ability to him that you can throw anything at him and he won't break. He was well nigh perfect if you listen to some teachings of the story.

In looking at this more realistically my take away is he was still human and I think there is a good chance in moments of human weakness he was in despair. God still carried out His plan for Joseph regardless. It is apparent Joseph had  good character. That the Bible does not mention specifically any of these times does not confirm for me they weren't there. Especially since he was made of the same stuff the rest of us are.

Look at Noah. Don't you think at times he almost lost it? 

I could bring up other cases where I think humanity is simply not mentioned. Often we assume these were people above the fray. People who had a way to go through literally anything and never even once temporarily go into some kind of overload and lose it. 

How would you like to be told to lay on your left side for 390 days. This was Ezekiel. Man I get cramps in my bed at night if I don't roll over. How did he do that? I feel pretty certain that unless God knocked him out it was a miserable thing. 

If God wanted us to know He would have told us. I am ok with that. 

[Starise]

14 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

If God wanted us to know He would have told us. I am ok with that. 

Shame on me for wondering.

[BeyondET]

7 hours ago, Starise said:

Shame on me for wondering.

Nay 

1 Timothy 4:15

Ponder these things; be absorbed in them, so that your progress may be evident to all.

[Guest kingdombrat]

I don't understand God's justification because Elisha was being made fun of by children over being bald.   So after Elisha curses them, God sends 2 she bears to shred 42 children.   I get it that the children were not Hebrew descent, but they're CHILDREN!   Makes no sense to me!

Edited May 13, 2021 by kingdombrat

[BeyondET]

20 minutes ago, kingdombrat said:

I don't understand God's justification because Elisha was being made fun of by children over being bald.   So after Elisha curses them, God sends 2 she bears to shred 42 children.   I get it that the children were not Hebrew decent, but they're CHILDREN!   Makes no sense to me!

Right a major head scratcher, what is meant by go up, and like you mentioned the children.

[BeyondET]

Maybe they were not children, like what Solomon says about himself after taking over the throne about 20 yrs old.

1 Kings 3

7 And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child. I do not know how to go 

[Guest kingdombrat]

5 minutes ago, BeyondET said:

Maybe they were not children, like what Solomon says about himself after taking over the throne about 20 yrs old.

1 Kings 3

7 And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child. I do not know how to go 

Good Point!

[Guest kingdombrat]

And the idea behind cursing others over being made fun of for being bald seems rather pitiful on Elisha's part.   For a Prophet of the Most High God, he seems a bit too sensitive.