Dis-member, maybe it's not quite the same but when we stopped attending the meetings the thought of joining another church wasn't palatable.
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Do you have a favourite scripture?
by Ucantnome 74 Replies latest jw friends
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From Proverbs chapter 3:21 NNWT:
My son, do not lose sight of them.* Safeguard practical wisdom and thinking ability;
I told my wife, that means we should learn to think, as opposed to someone else telling us what to think. -
jgnat
Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
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Hi,
Yes, it's Romans 7:13-25, better known as the conflict within....He says that the law shows him that he is doing wrong, that he cannot do good. Even when he wants to do good, he cannot do it. And isn't that all of us...When I'm at the hall or when I attended church, I would sit there at the service & say, yes, I'm going to be a better christian, stop cussing, no more partying, then when I started in the hall, yes, I'm going to widen out, yes, I can give more time to my ministry, really going to concentrate on my return visits, going to do more research, going to going to .....all the best plans are on paper. So all good intentions, but as soon as I get outside the church or hall doors, that's when the conflict starts...I want to do the right thing & just a minute ago I was going to be the best Christian God ever saw. I really think while we are all in worship & surrounded by spiritual people & enviromemt you have all the best intentions. But I think this scripture is a nice one for all christians, because I feel it really expresses what we feel but can't say. To the world we are super christians, but inside we are saying...It's tough being a Christian...For those who may not know this scripture, let me share it...just to be more boring & conflict more folks...Romans 7: 13-25 (This is from the Good News Bible: Easy to read & understand, not like the KJ or the NWT)We know that the Law is spiritual; but I am a mortal, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do; for I don't do what I would like to do, but instead I do what I hate. 16 Since what I do is what I don't want to do, this shows that I agree that the Law is right. 17 So I am not really the one who does this thing; rather it is the sin that lives in me. 18 I know that good does not live in me—that is, in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it. 19 I don't do the good I want to do; instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do. 20 If I do what I don't want to do, this means that I am no longer the one who does it; instead, it is the sin that lives in me.
21 So I find that this law is at work: when I want to do what is good, what is evil is the only choice I have. 22 My inner being delights in the law of God. 23 But I see a different law at work in my body—a law that fights against the law which my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin which is at work in my body. 24 What an unhappy man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is taking me to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who does this through our Lord Jesus Christ!
This, then, is my condition: on my own I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.
Poor Paul, locked up most of the time, yet, wrote more than half of the NT...talk about making lemonade from lemons..
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