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Originally Posted by SpeakersCorner
We need to find a new way to look at our experiences in the church life. This good/bad dichotomy doesn't work. Actually, it's just another form of eating from the tree of knowledge, a binary way of looking at the world.
Instead I recommend looking at it from the "life" point of view. We had experiences, tons of them, some good, some bad, but all real, deep, textured human experiences which have enriched our souls no matter what we may think.
...we [can] to learn to look at things from a different angle. This is wonderful spiritual advice... Transcend it. Spin it into gold.
The twelve spies who went ahead on the scout mission were blessed with forty years of real experience of the Lord. Still, ten of them could only see giants, could only see themselves as grasshoppers. Two looked at the situation entirely differently. I suspect they had a gleam of irony in their eyes as they said, "They are food for us." So too is our last number of years in the church life. It is food for us. Food for thought and food for action.
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I agree. Amen. It is food for us. We went through what we went through for a purpose, for God's purpose. God's hand was there, and His hand is still here, guiding us forward. I don't reject the past. Nor do I cling to it. I move on; it is "food" for me. There are lessons there for me, deep lessons if I would be still a moment and hear the voice of the Master. Then the balm that heals my wounds becomes a salve also to others. The nourishing food that restores flesh onto my dry bones passes into my speaking, reaching others, and also supplying them. God put me through what He did for a reason.