tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3842579934071141602.post8453993231015868593..comments2013-05-12T12:50:24.810-07:00Comments on A Journey Worth Taking: Great Wall of ChinaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3842579934071141602.post-86324675329936363722010-07-19T07:52:48.152-07:002010-07-19T07:52:48.152-07:00(I'm pretty excited that I am finally able to ...(I'm pretty excited that I am finally able to comment! woohoo!!!) <br />Monicua aka younger me, I know exactly how you feel. I challenge you to draw closer to God. There are so many aspects and characteristics to God. As you get to know Him more and more all those thought of faithlessness (if that's even a word) do fade away. As you begin to know Him for who He is, there is no doubt in your mind that His love for you is true and that He who promises goodness will not fail you. <br /><br />As for trusting people... pray for discernment. Discernmnet is a very sweet gift to have. Jeremiah 17 puts is so neatly:<br /><br /> “ Cursed is the man who trusts in man <br /> And makes flesh his strength, <br /> Whose heart departs from the LORD. <br /> For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, <br /> And shall not see when good comes, <br /> But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, <br /> In a salt land which is not inhabited. <br /> “ Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, <br /> And whose hope is the LORD. <br /> For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, <br /> Which spreads out its roots by the river, <br /> And will not fear when heat comes; <br /> But its leaf will be green, <br /> And will not be anxious in the year of drought, <br /> Nor will cease from yielding fruit. <br /> “ The heart is deceitful above all things,<br /> And desperately wicked; <br /> Who can know it? <br /> I, the LORD, search the heart, <br /> I test the mind, <br /> Even to give every man according to his ways, <br /> According to the fruit of his doings. <br /> Jeremiah 17:5-10<br /><br />I love you.Raquelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04807586471038144986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3842579934071141602.post-44788007205577833152010-07-19T06:38:56.057-07:002010-07-19T06:38:56.057-07:00Trust has always been a huge issue for me. The pr...Trust has always been a huge issue for me. The problem with it, is over time, it permeates into other areas of your life and you go from not being able to trust someone, to not being able to trust God, to then questions anything anyone says because you doubt the sincerity. It's no easy task to trust, however, our lives are to be lived by faith, not sight, and in order to do this, trust must be center.<br /><br />Isaiah 57:13 "When you cry out, Let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry them all away, A breath will take them. But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land, And shall inherit My holy mountain.”<br /><br />Our doubt can at times be our idols. We value what we think more than we do what He says. We have to come to a point where we know this. That gnoskos kinda know that Pedro always talks about. <br /><br />To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket -- safe, dark, motionless, airless -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. - C.S. LewisChrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05301349603951881208noreply@blogger.com