Comments on: Doing Gods Will With A Smile http://www.christianwomenonline.net/issue/2008/10/doing-gods-will-with-a-smile/ Uniting Women of Faith Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:28:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jill http://www.christianwomenonline.net/issue/2008/10/doing-gods-will-with-a-smile/#comment-552 Jill Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:38:10 +0000 http://www.christianwomenonline.net/issue/?p=213#comment-552 "To remain holy means to seek out people and sustain relationships with those who have similar beliefs and convictions. Convictions which hold to the fact that it is imperative to follow God’s will at all times, and not be a slave to your own desires..." This is true but it is not the whole answer. I see many young people who fall away from what always seemed to be important and the Truth. But if I look closer I see people who never had and maybe never saw a live-two way relationship with God. You can grow up in a good family that goes to church, teaches true values and morals but never see people interacting with God. Resting in Him, praying and seeing answers, fighting with God about the difficult questions, knowing you are totally accepted and loved by God all the time, .... Real happiness is knowing God in this way, it is messy, it does not have exact rules but it is real life... My heart aches for those who have never seen this lived out or experienced it themselves, it appears they are rejecting God and giving into doing what feels good==but maybe they have never know the "feeling good" of really connecting with God. They are rejecting a way of life that looks like it should give them rest but it never did. “To remain holy means to seek out people and sustain relationships with those who have similar beliefs and convictions. Convictions which hold to the fact that it is imperative to follow God’s will at all times, and not be a slave to your own desires…”

This is true but it is not the whole answer.
I see many young people who fall away from what always seemed to be important and the Truth. But if I look closer I see people who never had and maybe never saw a live-two way relationship with God. You can grow up in a good family that goes to church, teaches true values and morals but never see people interacting with God.
Resting in Him, praying and seeing answers, fighting with God about the difficult questions, knowing you are totally accepted and loved by God all the time, ….
Real happiness is knowing God in this way, it is messy, it does not have exact rules but it is real life…
My heart aches for those who have never seen this lived out or experienced it themselves, it appears they are rejecting God and giving into doing what feels good==but maybe they have never know the “feeling good” of really connecting with God. They are rejecting a way of life that looks like it should give them rest but it never did.

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