stolen from sarah babineau.

the following post was stolen directly off of the blog of sarah babineau, word for word, stolen. she had some amazing things to say, and so i stole the whole thing and posted it on my blog. thank you to sarah babineau for your words of wisdom, and the scripture. perhaps comming from the mouth of someone so sweet, the words will mean more than comming from me, because you may not be able to see past my scarlet A. her link is on my page if you would like to read her blog, though she hasn't updated in 600000 years, perhaps you could encourage her!



"Romans 2:1-11Therefore you have no excuse, everyone * of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. And we know that the judgment of God rightly * falls upon those who practice such things. But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God ? Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance ? But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS: to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation. There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek, but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God.

Ok so, I am sure we have all read this at some point in time. Verse 4ish stood out to me though.

2:4Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance ?

how often do we take what God did for us for granted. and does our knowledge lead us to repentance? I know I have a couple of unresolved things I haven't brought up yet, I mean sin is fun right? It is a lot easier to just sit back and play with it and ignore what we know to be true. Unfortunately as we put off repenting sometimes we forget about the sin, it becomes natural and comfortable to us and we become calloused and cold. So what happens?

2:5But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, (2:6) who WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS:

I didn't put the caps on it there... it came off of crosswalk like that. Lately - and really most of the time - I know what kind of marks and comments I am going to be getting off of my papers. The will tell me I am a horrible commaer and I have problems with sentence length. There are also little stuff here and there that I will know about but do not fix because I either do not know how to or, I don't have the time to. So I don't fix them and I get marked accordingly. Sometimes my spiritual life is like that too. I usually forget about the storing up part but it is no different than my papers - just on a larger and more important scale.

2:7to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;

Perseverance. It kinda reminds me of training for the OUAs. We had a whole lot of exercise in a small period of time and had to train to get our endurance levels up. Then we carb loaded. Still at the end of the day I was spent and had to sit out for part of it and let our alternate take a turn. It is hard work. It is work. I don't like working, it is so much easier to let life happen to you - much more than happening to life. Perseverance is not just standing during a storm, it is moving through it.

2:8but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.

'nuff said.this one was long, but it hasn't happened and I have been lazy lately. Obey the truth."

christians are judgemental and hurt eachother for fun. why would anyone want to be like us? why does no one listen? grow up foolish people.

wow...God is amazing!

ok so...i guess all i can say is...forgiveness is an amazing concept. recently i have been going through some trying times....and a couple days ago...they got much much worse. i foudn out some things...that are very unfortunate...anyway...i was so so so angry with chad for the things i had learned...because those things...were very very terrible. i wanted to go beat him up and all the rest of the stuff you feel when you feel completely violated and used. but then suddenly something popped into my head. i told chad one day that i forgive him for everything, even the stuff i dont know...so...how is it i could just change my mind now that i know the stuff? and BAM i forgave him. how imposisble is that? very....cuz trust me the stuff was not pleasent. how amazing that God just...put the forgiveness there! God is so incredible! there was no process it was just like God said, alright you are going to forgive him right now, and the anger was gone! at first i thoguth id keep it to myself because i didn't want to boast that i could forgive...but the thing is i didn't forgive...i was mad and God just took away the anger and...put the forgiveness there. he replaced the madness with an absolutely incredible peace. i cant even describe it. i feel more content now than i ever have in all my life. i feel as though God is standing with His hands on my shoulders! God is so amazing, and so loving. i have not been as faithful through all this as i shoudl have been...and look how He takes care of me anyway! keep praying for chad, pray that God will reveal Himself to him, and show him how much He really loves him. pray that he understand that God raelly loves us so much that He sent Jesus to die for us, knowing we were gonna mess up! The kind of love God has for us is NOT based on our actions in anyway, and no matter what we do He is going to love us anyway! pray God will show this to chad in such a way that chad has to get it. also please continue to pray for me, that God continues to give me this incredible strangth and peace and contentment! and our friend joel who is going through hard times.

now here is a lesson i have learned through all this. people are watching us. our actions do not only effect us, but the people around us as well. my choosing to do the things with chad that i did, effected him too, not jsut me. also we need to nurture other people's faith. sure we may not be responsible for other people's decisions, but we do have the ability to help....or hinder them. lets not let satan use our actions to hurt other people. and remember it is our job to love, not to judge.

man God sure loves His little ones! in a way none of us can understand! and who cares who feels its their place to judge me? God knows best, and He is my daddy, and He is in control of my life, and those people cannot take Him away from me, or me away from Him!