God is like the Ocean.

So today with the blazing hot temperature me and my aunt went to Portland, She had her ruby Wednesday where she meets with an elderly woman that she be-friended awhile ago and i go to visit with my mother and sisters.

Afterward's we decide to go to lunch, always when i am with my aunt we end up talking about god, NEVER a bad thing. :) we talk about our struggles with him, our lessons we recently have learned or even things we just don't get. and believe me I'm learning all the things i DONT get. lol

The conversation eventually touched on how i don't get why people decide to go around the same mountain, and i am talking about the WOE is me, i have soo many trials and tribulations mountain the one that Christian's often find themselves circling. I first heard the analogy from Joyce Meyer. Wow is she one heck of a teacher. But its true, i know i have walked a many times around this mountain but it makes my heart hurt to watch a fellow Christian continuously do this, EVEN when we give them the tools to go threw, go over, or even move this mountain and yet they still encircle it. GOD gives them the GREATEST of these tools and yet they refuse to listen. Its like a Eeyore effect. they sit under a black storm cloud and don't look for the silver lining. the saying goes, "you cant help those who wish not to be helped'.

When talking to my aunt i find that i tend to be so thirsty to hear what the bible has to say about certain things, ya think gods telling me something? lol. So when we finally get on the road of course the conversation continues and when i finally start to look around i notice, 'Wow, I'm 5 minutes from my house' But i still have ONE more question i wanna know about. What does the saying "Fear of god' mean? Does god really want us to fear him? or does it have some "Other" meaning? my aunt explained it as no he doesn't want us to fear him, he is Almighty and you need to respect him and be in AWE of him,

(((For the unbeliever it means judgement day (luke 12:5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him) for the believer Check out Hebrews 12:28-29 (Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, 29 for our “God is a consuming fire.” ). )))))

I took that to mean God is like the Ocean. We respect the ocean but We Don't fear the ocean, It is Almighty. We know that the ocean has an Almighty wrath that requires respect, i think god is just like that, he is great and almighty and has the ability to have great wrath but he doesn't use it at a drop of the hat. our god is Just and it says it rains EVENLY on the just and the unjust alike.


So there you have it folks. Until next time i deem it necessary to write to no one. :)