Wow! God's talking me me again! :)
"See to it that no one takes you captive...which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world..rather than on Christ". Wow! All I can say is Wow! Well, anyone who knows me, knows that I have a lot more to say than Wow! :) Seriously, one minute I was reading Phillipians 4:6 about not being anxious about anything (I worry a lot, it's my pet sin), and the next minute I "somehow" ended up on this verse! I've been asking God to guide me to the truth. I am so thankful I was raised in a home with Christian values and morals! I knew God and I knew His ways, but the God I knew isn't the God I'm getting to know now. The God I knew was a dictator, per se, someone who was out to punish me for the slighest things I did wrong. I didn't look forward to heaven, I was scared of going to hell. Was I taken captive? In a way, yes. I did not see Him as a loving God. I mean my head knowledge told me He loved me and died for me, but it wasn't heart knowledge. Right now I'm in the process of sorting through what was "human tradition" of what I learned for the first 33 years of my life, and what really depended on Christ alone. So I'm searching the scriptures for the truth. God has always been and always will be God, it's just my views of Him are changing. I want to depend on Christ and not on religion and tradition. Lord, please continue to show me the truths of your Word and please, please, please let me let you love me, just as I am. I'm going to need help with this one! :) I'm used to wanting to do something to earn approval/acceptance/love. I guess that's part of the whole surrender process that I'm trying to learn...to let you be God and to allow myself to rest in that knowledge and security.
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