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Originally Posted by Jay
So obviously this means we still live normal ordinary lives and we don't just sit around all day chanting "oh Lord Jesus"
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But the LC hymns used those very words: "just keep eating, just keep drinking" as if it was to the exclusion of other activities. It seems quite unbalanced in retrospect. Who could call louder, longer, with accompanying clenched-fist thrusting would "win the race". The word "just" seems to be used in exactly the same meaning that you say was not done. You say, "We don't just do this" but the hymn says "Just do this".
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Originally Posted by Jay
These and plenty more verses imply that when we are connected to God we are filled and we drink of him. Really it all makes perfect sense.
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Connected to God can be by helping your neighbor. Being filled with the Holy Spirit may be caring for those who are sick. "When I was sick, you visited me..." Was this visiting then self-effort, devoid of Godly connection? Doesn't seem so, from the text.