It's amazing what a few words will do. It's amazing how the heart reacts to what you read. Let's just say I'm very very proud for many reasons. I know how hard it is for some to accept the truth. I know how hard life can be or should I say will be. Just so you know, all your prayers are being heard. Recall Job, even his own family was against him. They wanted him to curse God. While nobody is saying curse God, family can do other things to keep us away from God.
In truth its very sad. Its sad that our loved ones want to come between our choices in life instead of accepting them even though in truth all it will make you is a better person. Witnesses don't do drugs, Witnesses don't Smoke, Witnesses don't use foul language, Witnesses don't get drunk, Witnesses don't cheat on their husbands or wives.
In our past and yes even mine we were very bad. There were a few times I could have died because of drugs. Jehovah changed my life. Describing the change that must be made by those seeking divine approval, the apostle writes: “Put away the old personality which conforms to your former course of conduct and which is being corrupted according to his deceptive desires; but that you should be made new in the force actuating your mind, and should put on the new personality which was created according to God’s will.”
So it is God’s will that this change be made. God’s spirit is the force by which one makes his or her mind over, by which his or her mind must be actuated. Accurate knowledge of the divine will also plays a key role in effecting this change: “Strip off the old personality with its practices, and clothe yourselves with the new personality which through accurate knowledge is being renewed according to the image of the one who created it.”
The “new personality” is not some kind of beautiful-looking mask that one puts on over “the old personality.” No, the “new personality” is not character development in which one develops outwardly sweet manners but inwardly he is still the same “old personality,” the mind not really being renewed according to God’s spirit and the divine will. There is no insincerity or hypocrisy associated with the “new personality.” It is genuine. It is not the “old personality” in disguise. It really shows heart-deep evidence of the fruits of God’s spirit: “The fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control.
As mentioned I'm very proud of the things I hear. It puts a smile on my face when I think of the future and FYI - Jesse has not given up. I look at things this way. Let me use an illustration which makes sense.
A woman is having a baby, she goes into labor. Before she goes into labor he hears stories about labor pain etc..
There she is in labor. She's in so much pain but she's pushing and pushing. She screams and yells. She's pushing. Hours and hours go by and she is pushing. This woman is in pain. Finally after hours and hours, the baby comes. They hand the baby over to that woman. She looks at the baby. Her heart is full of joy. She is crying. She is so so Happy. It's hard to describe in words. Her baby opens his or her eyes and looks at his mommy. She looks at her baby. Words really can't describe it but let me ask you this?
Do you think she really cares about the pain or even thinking about it at that happy moment? Of course not and that's exactly what I mean. In life we will go through pain but like that woman who went to pain, did not recall once she was united with her baby. Think about that. The future looks good.
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