Comments on: Questions, Questions, Questions http://lifestream.org/blog/2009/04/13/questions-questions-questions/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:12:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Amy http://lifestream.org/blog/2009/04/13/questions-questions-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-27918 Amy Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:01:22 +0000 http://lifestream.org/blog/?p=798#comment-27918 Wayne, this blog is timely... I'm going to ask you a question that I just asked someone else. A good question, indeed - are people led astray by a 'false grace?' Why does the New Testament warn the early churches again and again about 'falling away?' What is the purpose of this, if grace is as widespread as I'd like to believe? Wayne, this blog is timely…
I’m going to ask you a question that I just asked someone else.
A good question, indeed – are people led astray by a ‘false grace?’

Why does the New Testament warn the early churches again and again about ‘falling away?’
What is the purpose of this, if grace is as widespread as I’d like to believe?

]]> By: Daryl http://lifestream.org/blog/2009/04/13/questions-questions-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-27903 Daryl Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:24:40 +0000 http://lifestream.org/blog/?p=798#comment-27903 Thanks for sharing Wayne. I think that I'm finding the voice of God and His agenda to be so different from my ideas and my agenda. Learning to hear His voice can be kind of a messy process because even as I am pretty sure I'm hearing His voice, I find myself unsure of the outcome, or if I'm misunderstanding His leading, I could crash and burn. That's where His grace is a comfort as it frees me to make mistakes as I'm learning through moving forward when I don't know the outcome. Thanks for putting to words a description of the process I'm experiencing. Encouraging us to move forward even when all our questions aren't answered, and all the ducks aren't in a row. Thanks for sharing Wayne. I think that I’m finding the voice of God and His agenda to be so different from my ideas and my agenda. Learning to hear His voice can be kind of a messy process because even as I am pretty sure I’m hearing His voice, I find myself unsure of the outcome, or if I’m misunderstanding His leading, I could crash and burn. That’s where His grace is a comfort as it frees me to make mistakes as I’m learning through moving forward when I don’t know the outcome. Thanks for putting to words a description of the process I’m experiencing. Encouraging us to move forward even when all our questions aren’t answered, and all the ducks aren’t in a row.

]]> By: Loved Much! » Blog Archive http://lifestream.org/blog/2009/04/13/questions-questions-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-27861 Loved Much! » Blog Archive Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:16:22 +0000 http://lifestream.org/blog/?p=798#comment-27861 [...] words by Wayne Jacobsen in his latest post ‘Questions Questions Questions’ at LifeStream.org are most appropriate to me… If we’re really looking to follow Jesus, [...] [...] words by Wayne Jacobsen in his latest post ‘Questions Questions Questions’ at LifeStream.org are most appropriate to me… If we’re really looking to follow Jesus, [...]

]]> By: Bob http://lifestream.org/blog/2009/04/13/questions-questions-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-27859 Bob Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:26:56 +0000 http://lifestream.org/blog/?p=798#comment-27859 I see questions as stop lights on the journey. In faith we embark on this wonderful journey when we here Jesus say, "Follow Me." However, if before we leave the house to follow Him we first called the local police department and asked them to tell us when all of the traffic lights were on green and not red we'd never leave the house. Yet, once on the road Father may want us to stop at some red lights so he can get our attention in order to teach us, but some of us worry about where this journey may take us that we never fully trust Him. What we don't recognize is that when we fail to completely trust Jesus the light will stay on red. The light only turns green when we quit trying to answer these questions ourselves and trust in His love. Bob F. I see questions as stop lights on the journey. In faith we embark on this wonderful journey when we here Jesus say, “Follow Me.”

However, if before we leave the house to follow Him we first called the local police department and asked them to tell us when all of the traffic lights were on green and not red we’d never leave the house. Yet, once on the road Father may want us to stop at some red lights so he can get our attention in order to teach us, but some of us worry about where this journey may take us that we never fully trust Him. What we don’t recognize is that when we fail to completely trust Jesus the light will stay on red. The light only turns green when we quit trying to answer these questions ourselves and trust in His love.

Bob F.

]]> By: Charles http://lifestream.org/blog/2009/04/13/questions-questions-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-27854 Charles Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:50:01 +0000 http://lifestream.org/blog/?p=798#comment-27854 Yes! When you know Papa loves you in your heart, nothing else matters. Yes, there will be questions, but it's so much more fun finding the answers with Papa's help. It is a joyous adventure. Charles Yes! When you know Papa loves you in your heart, nothing else matters.
Yes, there will be questions, but it’s so much more fun finding the answers with Papa’s help. It is a joyous adventure.

Charles

]]> By: StephenT http://lifestream.org/blog/2009/04/13/questions-questions-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-27851 StephenT Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:31:47 +0000 http://lifestream.org/blog/?p=798#comment-27851 Yes. The purpose of "Life" is to live it, not solve it. Perhaps we are not mean't to solve that which we cannon live: "Do not now seek answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. The point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. Take whatever comes with great trust." -- Rainer Maria Rilke, "Letters to a Young Poet" Yes. The purpose of “Life” is to live it, not solve it. Perhaps we are not mean’t to solve that which we cannon live:

“Do not now seek answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. The point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. Take whatever comes with great trust.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet”

]]> By: Richard http://lifestream.org/blog/2009/04/13/questions-questions-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-27849 Richard Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:48:17 +0000 http://lifestream.org/blog/?p=798#comment-27849 Wayne, I loved what you shared here, thanks. It truly is amazing, right in the midst of the knowledge of good and evil doing what it does best, keeping a person fixated on, right vs wrong, good vs bad, the right way vs the wrong way, is the portal of grace. Entering through this portal ushers us into His presence and somehow the discovery of this wonder of being loved seems to settle much of the blizzard in our snow globes we use to live in. Wayne,

I loved what you shared here, thanks.
It truly is amazing, right in the midst of the knowledge of good and evil doing what it does best, keeping a person fixated on, right vs wrong, good vs bad, the right way vs the wrong way, is the portal of grace.
Entering through this portal ushers us into His presence and somehow the discovery of this wonder of being loved seems to settle much of the blizzard in our snow globes we use to live in.

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