Comments on: uncanny coincidence or is that Jesus in my spaghetti? http://www.treybailey.net/2009/12/uncanny-coincidence-or-is-that-jesus-in-my-spaghetti/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uncanny-coincidence-or-is-that-jesus-in-my-spaghetti ideas about what a "normal" christian should look like... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Olivia Adams http://www.treybailey.net/2009/12/uncanny-coincidence-or-is-that-jesus-in-my-spaghetti/comment-page-1/#comment-453 Olivia Adams Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:44:22 +0000 http://www.treybailey.net/?p=1000#comment-453 Must admit, I don't get to read every post....but this one I loved. Can't tell you how many times I've wondered where the time, the opportunities went...and how poorly I've spent so many of them. I'm so grateful we serve a God who says that every moment can be a new one....a new opportunity. I've only rarely come to that point where my thoughts and desires would be consistent with those of the Father....but it is in those moments that I have found the most peace, even when it was the most difficult place in which to find myself. Thanks for sharing, Trey! God bless! Must admit, I don’t get to read every post….but this one I loved. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve wondered where the time, the opportunities went…and how poorly I’ve spent so many of them. I’m so grateful we serve a God who says that every moment can be a new one….a new opportunity. I’ve only rarely come to that point where my thoughts and desires would be consistent with those of the Father….but it is in those moments that I have found the most peace, even when it was the most difficult place in which to find myself.

Thanks for sharing, Trey! God bless!

]]> By: Keith Senator http://www.treybailey.net/2009/12/uncanny-coincidence-or-is-that-jesus-in-my-spaghetti/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Keith Senator Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:08:49 +0000 http://www.treybailey.net/?p=1000#comment-447 I read some Piper today. Scott Moore asked me today if I had ever read Don't Waste Your Life, and I had not. I was able to find a free pdf online and read a couple chapters. My favorite thought up to this point is this, there is nothing new under the sun, only never-ending repackaging. I do agree, a lot of people are very busy doing things that are necessary and important. However, busyness and Godliness are not the same. In fact, even Christian leaders are often guilty of doing things in God's name for the sake of the gospel that are in the way of His highest and best. I have found that a tension exists in almost every situation between our thoughts and His thoughts. It is only by true dependency on Hom that those thoughts are the same. It is only with this perspective that one can rest assured that they are not wasting their life. When we know what He wants, then we know what we should be doing. I read some Piper today. Scott Moore asked me today if I had ever read Don’t Waste Your Life, and I had not. I was able to find a free pdf online and read a couple chapters. My favorite thought up to this point is this, there is nothing new under the sun, only never-ending repackaging.

I do agree, a lot of people are very busy doing things that are necessary and important. However, busyness and Godliness are not the same. In fact, even Christian leaders are often guilty of doing things in God’s name for the sake of the gospel that are in the way of His highest and best.

I have found that a tension exists in almost every situation between our thoughts and His thoughts. It is only by true dependency on Hom that those thoughts are the same. It is only with this perspective that one can rest assured that they are not wasting their life. When we know what He wants, then we know what we should be doing.

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