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Straight and narrow

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Announcements › Forums › Life – January 17th, 2016 › Straight and narrow

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  • January 15, 2016 at 1:04 pm #280
    spencel
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    455″WATCH lest you cry to God to take you out of your human dilemma, when in reality God is only waiting for your own readiness to be helped. If you have your hand in a narrow-neck vase, and you grab a handful of money that is in it, you cannot withdraw your hand. Yet it is not the vase that is holding your hand, but greed.

    Do we believe God will come down into this mortal dream to widen the strait and narrow way, so that He may release us from the hold materiality has upon us, while we are still clinging to the belief in matter in some form or other?”

    500 Watches by Gilbert Carpenter

    I came across this a few days ago. It caught my attention because I never considered that my desire for healing could be me wanting God to widen the way rather than me conform to a His will. Of course His will is health, but by focusing on making my life more comfortable rather than knowing Him better and transforming my behavior I am in essence asking God to widen the path.

    January 17, 2016 at 1:30 pm #288
    barbw
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    Very interesting insights. Thanks for sharing them.

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