Inspired a week later
OK, I know it has been crazy this week. I have no other excuse that I was lazy. Which goes right along with the last part of this story. It should not have taken me a week to finish it up. Have you taken time to read the last verse?
How many of us hide or find ourselves hiding? Do we hide behind excuses? Life? Our jobs? School work? Our schedule? or anything really?
Why are we hiding? Adam blames it on being afraid and naked. What was it that brought fear? Was if really fear or shame?
Adam was caught, doing something he was not supposed to do or not doing something he was supposed to do. How many of us find our selves exposed in this fashion. Do we turn away from the Lord when we do so? How many of us feel exposed when we realized that we are not living our lives according to the commands and wishes of God. That is where Satan found himself. What did he do?
I listened this weekend, as I was updated on the events of individual family member's lives. One caught my attention as I thought about this story. The individual relating the story told us of how they could not stand to endure another season with a certain person and their antics. They related how this person did everything they could to control or overwhelm others with their life and exaggerated life events. How this person did or did not share all details of what was going on, in order to trap others unwillingly. This person always talked about how depressed they are, how they lack of certain desired qualities, and so on and so forth.
Does this sound familiar? I suddenly thought of the fallen stars. They don't like the life style they are living. They don't want to be alone. They want others to hide with them, wallow in their shame, and find cause to point fingers at the Lord and his plan for being in such a situation.
I was boosted to hear that the one who felt as if they had been trapped did not start wallowing. They stood up and started questioning, not only this persons life but their own.
Why do you feel depressed? Are you doing what you have been instructed to do to over come it? Why don't you feel the spirit of the Lord? Are you praying? Reading scripture? Going to church? Changing those things in our life that are not in harmony with the teachings you find there? What are you doing, besides hiding?
I started wondering if Adam and Eve found themselves in this boat. Was is simple things like this that exposed them? Caused them to feel shame? Gave them the desire to hide from God? It may have been. We all find ourselves in this boat at times. I think the biggest mistake was that they listened to the fallen star. They ran and hid themselves, with him or like him, instead of standing up and making change.
Put on the armor of God, cover yourself in robes of righteousness that you will not find yourself naked.
How many of us hide or find ourselves hiding? Do we hide behind excuses? Life? Our jobs? School work? Our schedule? or anything really?
Why are we hiding? Adam blames it on being afraid and naked. What was it that brought fear? Was if really fear or shame?
Adam was caught, doing something he was not supposed to do or not doing something he was supposed to do. How many of us find our selves exposed in this fashion. Do we turn away from the Lord when we do so? How many of us feel exposed when we realized that we are not living our lives according to the commands and wishes of God. That is where Satan found himself. What did he do?
I listened this weekend, as I was updated on the events of individual family member's lives. One caught my attention as I thought about this story. The individual relating the story told us of how they could not stand to endure another season with a certain person and their antics. They related how this person did everything they could to control or overwhelm others with their life and exaggerated life events. How this person did or did not share all details of what was going on, in order to trap others unwillingly. This person always talked about how depressed they are, how they lack of certain desired qualities, and so on and so forth.
Does this sound familiar? I suddenly thought of the fallen stars. They don't like the life style they are living. They don't want to be alone. They want others to hide with them, wallow in their shame, and find cause to point fingers at the Lord and his plan for being in such a situation.
I was boosted to hear that the one who felt as if they had been trapped did not start wallowing. They stood up and started questioning, not only this persons life but their own.
Why do you feel depressed? Are you doing what you have been instructed to do to over come it? Why don't you feel the spirit of the Lord? Are you praying? Reading scripture? Going to church? Changing those things in our life that are not in harmony with the teachings you find there? What are you doing, besides hiding?
I started wondering if Adam and Eve found themselves in this boat. Was is simple things like this that exposed them? Caused them to feel shame? Gave them the desire to hide from God? It may have been. We all find ourselves in this boat at times. I think the biggest mistake was that they listened to the fallen star. They ran and hid themselves, with him or like him, instead of standing up and making change.
Put on the armor of God, cover yourself in robes of righteousness that you will not find yourself naked.
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