Confessions of this Gal's Sinful Heart

Because, I consider myself a thinking person, I don't take things at face value.  I seek to know the absolute truth.  I ask questions of those "in the know", read books on these subjects as well as reading the bible and praying, all in an effort to find out the truth.  But at the same time, I'm also a feeling person.  I trust my intuition, I follow my feelings at times and I allow  how others feel about things to sometimes influence me.  I consider myself one of reasonable intelligence that wouldn't "fall" into the hands of deception easily.  Equally, I'm also a person of faith.  I believe God is real, and Jesus is alive.  I believe in the power and movement of the Holy Spirit and I believe that what the Bible says is not only true but true for us today. Recently I've had to use all of these gifts to decipher a problem that caused me to question the Lord.  In fact I allowed a bad seed to be planted in my mind.  A seed tha...

OBEDIENCE .  This is not a very fun topic.  As parents we demand and expect obedience from our children. It comes at a cost of not doing things their own way for their own good.  Sometimes that's the cost we pay to obey God, and sometimes it seems like the cost is much more.... For months and months God had been instructing me to clear my plate.  I fought it and fought it, exhausting myself, and allowing family problems to increase.  So I partially obeyed.  See, I figured I could compromise and do only some of what God told me to do.  I even convinced myself that God couldn't be asking me to give up certain things because it's what He had called me to do in the first place.  It just didn't make any sense.  But the truth is God told me to CLEAR my plate, not to lessen my involvement, or get help, or hold onto things "just because", He said CLEAR it.  I did not obey completely...that is right away. It's kind of interesting when you t...