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Mar. 20th, 2009 07:30 amMy husband is 31 today. But don't tell a soul.
Mar. 20th, 2009
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Mar. 20th, 2009 11:19 amThis morning I have:
1. Made batch of gluten steaks because Mr Baldwin wants pepper steak tomorrow. This was interesting. For future reference, I will remember that in the boiling water they swell to insane proportions.
2. Started another batch of challah, this time with no sugar because the soy milk has sugar in it and it just was way too sweet for my liking. It is about done with its first rising now.
3. Ground another pan of wheat flour.
4. Chased Spot off the table twice, shooed him away from nomming cords, and diverted his other adventures in mischief as best I could. He is bursting with energy. He needs to go for a walk. I sure wish he would walk in town... I think a long walk is in order tomorrow.
1. Made batch of gluten steaks because Mr Baldwin wants pepper steak tomorrow. This was interesting. For future reference, I will remember that in the boiling water they swell to insane proportions.
2. Started another batch of challah, this time with no sugar because the soy milk has sugar in it and it just was way too sweet for my liking. It is about done with its first rising now.
3. Ground another pan of wheat flour.
4. Chased Spot off the table twice, shooed him away from nomming cords, and diverted his other adventures in mischief as best I could. He is bursting with energy. He needs to go for a walk. I sure wish he would walk in town... I think a long walk is in order tomorrow.
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Mar. 20th, 2009 06:16 pmA few minutes ago when I was lying on the floor, I reached back to pet Spot behind my head, and a hand touched my hand.
It took me a minute to realise it was my own hand.
Heart attack.
It took me a minute to realise it was my own hand.
Heart attack.
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Mar. 20th, 2009 07:58 pm"[We are] focusing on signs rather than on Jesus. Rumours and speculation are rampant. Our only safety is focusing on Jesus.
There is no assurance that we will live until Jesus comes. Thus we must be in Christ every day. Then all that is going on around us or will go on around us does not matter, because Jesus matters. Then we have real liberty."
This was a response letter in the latest issue of Adventist World to an article which, I must admit, I don't remember. I'll have to go back and take a look at it. But even not know to what it refers, I find it a good reminder.
We need to just live every day for Christ - treating it at once as though it is our last day and as if our days will never end. Constantly remaining in the present with Christ while being willing and able to accept a future where Christ will always be with us in Spirit if not physically returning yet.
While I feel the hourglass of time is emptying fast, I really don't know beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is. I just feel it, and we can't depend on feelings when it comes to spiritual things.
***
I've been mulling over some things, continuing to think about David Wilkerson, and trying to sort out in my mind where lines should be drawn as far as how much we can trust the word of men.
I do believe there are men and women of God who have not understood as fully as they could have/should have about the Bible (and really, none of us ever knows it all - I certainly don't. There is much that still is confusing to me, especially in the writings of Paul and some of the prophets), and yet have taken what they do know and done much good with it. There are sincere, honest, genuine children of God in every denomination, and many of them are on fire for Him.
Still, I think any extraBiblical Bible- or doctrine-related writing should always be taken with a grain of salt until it is diligently compared with the Bible, which is sole authority.
When I was new to and in doubt about Ellen White, I found myself comparing her writings with Scripture to see if they were worthy, and I could find no fault with them. I have continued to do this if I have questions about something she says, and thus far I have found she is in complete agreement with the Bible. She points us back to it. She wants us to read the Holy Book. Her writings drive you there.
I also do this with other Christian writers. There are many great ones who are not Adventists - Elisabeth Elliot, for one, has been a great blessing and inspiration to me. I do not doubt her sincerity and her love of God and I hope to meet her in the Kingdom. There are others, too, and not all of them embrace the same values I have come to embrace as an Adventist - things that I fully believe are Biblical and important. This does not mean I automatically dismiss them because they're different from me. We all grow at different rates spiritually. I'm not done growing and learning, and neither is anyone else. The point is that we need to be open and making serious efforts to dig into God's word.
So coming back to David Wilkerson. This is one instance where I'm less inclined to be tolerant. I have read some things by this man which have been interesting, thought-provoking, and even good. The problem lies in the fact that he is making claims to have visions and dreams which are not 100% accurate. Isaiah 8 talks about people who consult the dead and have familiar spirits, and the test whereby we are to know whether to believe them. Verse 20 says, "To the law and to the testimony [the Holy Scriptures]! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn."
If he is really guided by the Spirit of God, his predictions would never fail. I'm not willing to accept anything he says, even if it sounds good, because Jesus warned us against false prophets. We're not to have anything to do with them (Matthew 24.24).
It would be one thing if he was just a preacher preaching what he understands. He has gone beyond that and is now deceiving people with false prophecies and false doctrines. I don't care how much "good" someone like that does... it's not worth the paper it's printed on.
Kai is here so I have to get going. More later, maybe.
There is no assurance that we will live until Jesus comes. Thus we must be in Christ every day. Then all that is going on around us or will go on around us does not matter, because Jesus matters. Then we have real liberty."
This was a response letter in the latest issue of Adventist World to an article which, I must admit, I don't remember. I'll have to go back and take a look at it. But even not know to what it refers, I find it a good reminder.
We need to just live every day for Christ - treating it at once as though it is our last day and as if our days will never end. Constantly remaining in the present with Christ while being willing and able to accept a future where Christ will always be with us in Spirit if not physically returning yet.
While I feel the hourglass of time is emptying fast, I really don't know beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is. I just feel it, and we can't depend on feelings when it comes to spiritual things.
***
I've been mulling over some things, continuing to think about David Wilkerson, and trying to sort out in my mind where lines should be drawn as far as how much we can trust the word of men.
I do believe there are men and women of God who have not understood as fully as they could have/should have about the Bible (and really, none of us ever knows it all - I certainly don't. There is much that still is confusing to me, especially in the writings of Paul and some of the prophets), and yet have taken what they do know and done much good with it. There are sincere, honest, genuine children of God in every denomination, and many of them are on fire for Him.
Still, I think any extraBiblical Bible- or doctrine-related writing should always be taken with a grain of salt until it is diligently compared with the Bible, which is sole authority.
When I was new to and in doubt about Ellen White, I found myself comparing her writings with Scripture to see if they were worthy, and I could find no fault with them. I have continued to do this if I have questions about something she says, and thus far I have found she is in complete agreement with the Bible. She points us back to it. She wants us to read the Holy Book. Her writings drive you there.
I also do this with other Christian writers. There are many great ones who are not Adventists - Elisabeth Elliot, for one, has been a great blessing and inspiration to me. I do not doubt her sincerity and her love of God and I hope to meet her in the Kingdom. There are others, too, and not all of them embrace the same values I have come to embrace as an Adventist - things that I fully believe are Biblical and important. This does not mean I automatically dismiss them because they're different from me. We all grow at different rates spiritually. I'm not done growing and learning, and neither is anyone else. The point is that we need to be open and making serious efforts to dig into God's word.
So coming back to David Wilkerson. This is one instance where I'm less inclined to be tolerant. I have read some things by this man which have been interesting, thought-provoking, and even good. The problem lies in the fact that he is making claims to have visions and dreams which are not 100% accurate. Isaiah 8 talks about people who consult the dead and have familiar spirits, and the test whereby we are to know whether to believe them. Verse 20 says, "To the law and to the testimony [the Holy Scriptures]! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn."
If he is really guided by the Spirit of God, his predictions would never fail. I'm not willing to accept anything he says, even if it sounds good, because Jesus warned us against false prophets. We're not to have anything to do with them (Matthew 24.24).
It would be one thing if he was just a preacher preaching what he understands. He has gone beyond that and is now deceiving people with false prophecies and false doctrines. I don't care how much "good" someone like that does... it's not worth the paper it's printed on.
Kai is here so I have to get going. More later, maybe.