Comments on: Sorting Life http://jimazing.com/blog/2008/08/sorting-life/ A jimazing view of the world Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:05:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Uncle/Brother http://jimazing.com/blog/2008/08/sorting-life/comment-page-1/#comment-295 Uncle/Brother Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:34:26 +0000 http://jimazing.com/blog/2008/08/03/sorting-life/#comment-295 Nephew/Brother (NB), I was arrested by your challenge for us not to measure our spiritual progress by our apparent physical blessing. Noah was a pretty good ship builder but a poor preacher by today's standards. He gave, by some estimates, a 120 year invitation and no one responded. Was he successful? Jesus himself had 5000 men plus women and children in his ministry at one time and lost all but his little intimate group with one sermon. He died alone with less than a half dozen around him. Was he successful? I agree with your thesis. Truth is truth no matter what 'most' people might say. Uncle/Brother (UB) Nephew/Brother (NB),
I was arrested by your challenge for us not to measure our spiritual progress by our apparent physical blessing. Noah was a pretty good ship builder but a poor preacher by today’s standards. He gave, by some estimates, a 120 year invitation and no one responded. Was he successful? Jesus himself had 5000 men plus women and children in his ministry at one time and lost all but his little intimate group with one sermon. He died alone with less than a half dozen around him. Was he successful? I agree with your thesis. Truth is truth no matter what ‘most’ people might say.
Uncle/Brother (UB)

]]> By: ded http://jimazing.com/blog/2008/08/sorting-life/comment-page-1/#comment-294 ded Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:03:19 +0000 http://jimazing.com/blog/2008/08/03/sorting-life/#comment-294 Jim, I keep the last two lines of that poem up as a quote on the wall in my classroom. I am always looking for opportunities to cause my students to think a little bit deeper. Maybe the rough times are just an indication that we have matured enough to think just a little bit deeper about our Lord. I have come to the same conclusion as you: circumstances are not a measure of how we are or are not in God. However, I have also learned that regardless of how I abase or abound or am just stumped, I just ask, "Father, what do I need to learn here?" He always answers. Sometimes He says, "Trust and look at this situation a little bit deeper." Jim,

I keep the last two lines of that poem up as a quote on the wall in my classroom. I am always looking for opportunities to cause my students to think a little bit deeper.

Maybe the rough times are just an indication that we have matured enough to think just a little bit deeper about our Lord. I have come to the same conclusion as you: circumstances are not a measure of how we are or are not in God.

However, I have also learned that regardless of how I abase or abound or am just stumped, I just ask, “Father, what do I need to learn here?”

He always answers. Sometimes He says, “Trust and look at this situation a little bit deeper.”

]]> By: erin http://jimazing.com/blog/2008/08/sorting-life/comment-page-1/#comment-293 erin Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:11:47 +0000 http://jimazing.com/blog/2008/08/03/sorting-life/#comment-293 If I had a sweetie mom here to do my laundry too, then maybe I wouldn't have to do it every two months :) ps. I was a pretty cool toddler, no? If I had a sweetie mom here to do my laundry too, then maybe I wouldn’t have to do it every two months :)

ps. I was a pretty cool toddler, no?

]]> By: curt http://jimazing.com/blog/2008/08/sorting-life/comment-page-1/#comment-292 curt Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:25:38 +0000 http://jimazing.com/blog/2008/08/03/sorting-life/#comment-292 Good post, Jimbo! Peace. Shalom. Well being. Love you bro! c Good post, Jimbo!

Peace. Shalom. Well being.

Love you bro!

c

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