Joanie2005

When a believer continues walls in sin and know they are sinning, their effectiveness for the Lord is seriously hindered, and risk losing any rewards that the Lord has for them. However as previoused stated there are situations in our lives where we battle with drinking, or whatever addiction that takes time to move forward from. Each one of us have issues that we are personally dealing with, and the only way we overcome those issues is with the love and patiences of the Lord. No one's journey as a Christian is the same, and at times we fall more than we stand, but yet in and through it all, God's grace abounds. He remembers that we are dust, and have feet of clay.

I have spend alot time inside different churches, and I found that most believers do not have to time, or will to be real with others. Also I have found that alot of Christians are unprepared to face the realities of life and dealing with real life situations that we as humans find ourselves. I feel that maybe small intense bible groups might help to bring a closest and a willing to share from the heart and not just the head.

I believe that people blame God for evil partly because man has to have some way of trying to justify or figure why things happen in life. And because man is good at not taking responsible of his own actions. Started in the Garden of Eden and it is still going on today. In no way does God tempt us (or the sinful people) with evil, instead he provides a way of escape. Our temptions come from within ourselves with our own desires and wants.......we see something, we want it, we go after it....we know it is wrong but yet we get carried away. Man was given free will to act accordingly including sinning. It is our choice to sin or not. God allows evil to exist because again of free will in our lives. We are not robots....simply to say yes or no to sin or evil around us........Part of growing and maturing as a christian is to reconize that evil exsist and lots of times we get hurt in the process by our own sinful thoughts and desires or by other's actions.

Trails in my life have brought me closer to the Lord simply because I realized that I can't do it alone. It has made me reached down inside and show me I had to reach up before moving out into the world. The song that comes to mind is Through it all, Through it all, I have learned to trust in Jesus, I have leaned to trust in God..For if I never had a trouble, I wouldn't know that God could solve them, I wouldn't know what faith in God can do.