Comments on: Where Were You? http://www.matthewetaft.com/wordpress/2009/02/where-were-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-were-you About Life, Christianity, Philosophy, etc. Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Hilda http://www.matthewetaft.com/wordpress/2009/02/where-were-you/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Hilda Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:44:26 +0000 http://matthewetaft.com/wordpress/?p=106#comment-49 It would not be fair or right for me to speak of a pain I have not experienced so I will only speak of that which I have personally lived in, with, and through. When I was not walking with God, when I insisted on waking up each day and doing what I thought was right for me and mine. Never once did I say a prayer to God; such as, 'help me this day to be wise and to do what is pleasing to You'. How could I (even though I did) expect God to be involved in my life when I said 'hands off'. Then something happens; be it of my own making or just because disease and death are a part of this world, do I have a right to say 'Where were You? You found me too late?' We as His children know that God is always with us. Because we believe that the Word of God is a 'letter that He has written to us' and we know His Word to be Truth. So now as His child, when those hard days come, I know that He is with me and I turn to Him and say 'stay here with me and help me through this'. He does. I may need to go through it but I am not alone. I have His peace and He removes all the anxiety that I am willing to let go of. He says turn to Me and I will turn toward you. He says seek Me and you will find Me. My point being and it may sound crude is: God is always there, He has not moved, you are that one that moves and it usually is away from Him, because that is a less responsible road. Man does not want to walk in the light. Not since Genesis when he hid from God after he sinned against God. The song should truly say, Why did I put God away? Why did I wait so long to see that He has always been there and waiting for me, and seeking to help me but I would not let Him. Until it was almost (I hope almost) too late. He left me a Love Letter that I would not read. He showed me a path where we could both walk together, but I would not walk it. Where was I? What was I thinking? Matt I said a prayer for wisdom before putting in this comment. And I pray for a strong walk for you, stay in His Word. I know the world is a hard place and more and more it is easier to just go with the flow of thinking, no absolutes, no condemnation, no law, every one does what is right in there own eyes. Sounds like the Book of Judges. But God is our Creator and as such He has a right over us, to tell us what is right and what is wrong, He has a right to judge us and give us His laws that we may live in peace with our fellow man. I create jewelry and I don't expect any of it to ever speak up and say that it does not like what I did with it. No way. But we do it with God all the time. Enough. It would not be fair or right for me to speak of a pain I have not experienced so I will only speak of that which I have personally lived in, with, and through.

When I was not walking with God, when I insisted on waking up each day and doing what I thought was right for me and mine. Never once did I say a prayer to God; such as, ‘help me this day to be wise and to do what is pleasing to You’. How could I (even though I did) expect God to be involved in my life when I said ‘hands off’. Then something happens; be it of my own making or just because disease and death are a part of this world, do I have a right to say ‘Where were You? You found me too late?’

We as His children know that God is always with us. Because we believe that the Word of God is a ‘letter that He has written to us’ and we know His Word to be Truth. So now as His child, when those hard days come, I know that He is with me and I turn to Him and say ‘stay here with me and help me through this’. He does. I may need to go through it but I am not alone. I have His peace and He removes all the anxiety that I am willing to let go of. He says turn to Me and I will turn toward you. He says seek Me and you will find Me.

My point being and it may sound crude is: God is always there, He has not moved, you are that one that moves and it usually is away from Him, because that is a less responsible road. Man does not want to walk in the light. Not since Genesis when he hid from God after he sinned against God.

The song should truly say, Why did I put God away? Why did I wait so long to see that He has always been there and waiting for me, and seeking to help me but I would not let Him. Until it was almost (I hope almost) too late. He left me a Love Letter that I would not read. He showed me a path where we could both walk together, but I would not walk it. Where was I? What was I thinking?

Matt I said a prayer for wisdom before putting in this comment. And I pray for a strong walk for you, stay in His Word. I know the world is a hard place and more and more it is easier to just go with the flow of thinking, no absolutes, no condemnation, no law, every one does what is right in there own eyes. Sounds like the Book of Judges. But God is our Creator and as such He has a right over us, to tell us what is right and what is wrong, He has a right to judge us and give us His laws that we may live in peace with our fellow man. I create jewelry and I don’t expect any of it to ever speak up and say that it does not like what I did with it. No way. But we do it with God all the time. Enough.

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