Comments on: So When I Think Like This am I Losing it or Just Waking Up? http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/09/07/so-when-i-think-like-this-am-i-losing-it-or-just-waking-up/ with Mart De Haan and Friends Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:28:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: nitha http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/09/07/so-when-i-think-like-this-am-i-losing-it-or-just-waking-up/#comment-2662 nitha Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:13:18 +0000 http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=505#comment-2662 In this world all things running well when it is balanced.When we ride a bike, we need to make a balance to make it move.In our every day life we should make balance. My question is how can we make balance and still we make our Lord Jesus the priority in our life and the marriage and emotions? Is it balanced?? Thanks Pak Mart. In this world all things running well when it is balanced.When we ride a bike, we need to make a balance to make it move.In our every day life we should make balance. My question is how can we make balance and still we make our Lord Jesus the priority in our life and the marriage and emotions? Is it balanced?? Thanks Pak Mart.

]]> By: lavida http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/09/07/so-when-i-think-like-this-am-i-losing-it-or-just-waking-up/#comment-2629 lavida Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:46:58 +0000 http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=505#comment-2629 Beautiful perspective and words of wisdom that resounds the attitude of Christ. Beautiful perspective and words of wisdom that resounds the attitude of Christ.

]]> By: Laura Borie http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/09/07/so-when-i-think-like-this-am-i-losing-it-or-just-waking-up/#comment-2445 Laura Borie Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:11:55 +0000 http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=505#comment-2445 Mart, Thank you for clarifying this passage. I always felt a little uneasy about it, because I wasn't quite sure what Paul was getting at. I thought it might mean something along the lines of what you wrote, but, the words seemed so strong, I just wasn't sure. Your explanation makes sense and is consistent with his other writings. Mart,

Thank you for clarifying this passage. I always felt a little uneasy about it, because I wasn’t quite sure what Paul was getting at. I thought it might mean something along the lines of what you wrote, but, the words seemed so strong, I just wasn’t sure. Your explanation makes sense and is consistent with his other writings.

]]> By: plumbape http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/09/07/so-when-i-think-like-this-am-i-losing-it-or-just-waking-up/#comment-2442 plumbape Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:49:22 +0000 http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=505#comment-2442 Hi Mart, I don't say much bacause I am not as good with words as I would like to be. I want to thank you for the explainations as well as the good people that comment here. I have learned so much! I'm like a kid with a new toy when I learn something like what Paul meant in his letter that you comment about, I've wondered when I read this is he saying this literally? Surely not what it sounds like to me anyway. Now it makes perfect sense, awesome, Praise the Lord! That is a beautiful prayer also. Thank You. Hi Mart,
I don’t say much bacause I am not as good with words as I would like to be. I want to thank you for the explainations as well as the good people that comment here. I have learned so much! I’m like a kid with a new toy when I learn something like what Paul meant in his letter that you comment about, I’ve wondered when I read this is he saying this literally? Surely not what it sounds like to me anyway. Now it makes perfect sense, awesome, Praise the Lord! That is a beautiful prayer also. Thank You.

]]> By: daisymarygoldr http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/09/07/so-when-i-think-like-this-am-i-losing-it-or-just-waking-up/#comment-2440 daisymarygoldr Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:54:56 +0000 http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=505#comment-2440 Without the distractions of marital duties, it is much easier to serve God and being a single person, Paul the Apostle knew what it meant to serve God whole-heartedly. However, marriage is the true test of practical Christian living. If a husband says he loves God and hates his wife, he is a liar. If a wife cannot submit to her husband whom God has ordained for her life, how can she claim submission to God whom she cannot see? It is tough… the grass always appears to be greener on the other side….singles cannot wait to get married and the married find all kinds of excuses to wiggle their ways out of a marriage! Therefore, Paul is not insane but wise by reminding us the fact that life is too short to go gaga over the things and relationships of this temporal world. The gifts that we enjoy in this life should not take precedence over the giver of those gifts and good/bad marriage everything ends at the grave. A follower of Christ remains indifferent to the insignificant infatuations and loves of this fleeting world while constantly being mindful of those eternal things that “the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard”! Without the distractions of marital duties, it is much easier to serve God and being a single person, Paul the Apostle knew what it meant to serve God whole-heartedly. However, marriage is the true test of practical Christian living. If a husband says he loves God and hates his wife, he is a liar. If a wife cannot submit to her husband whom God has ordained for her life, how can she claim submission to God whom she cannot see?

It is tough… the grass always appears to be greener on the other side….singles cannot wait to get married and the married find all kinds of excuses to wiggle their ways out of a marriage!

Therefore, Paul is not insane but wise by reminding us the fact that life is too short to go gaga over the things and relationships of this temporal world. The gifts that we enjoy in this life should not take precedence over the giver of those gifts and good/bad marriage everything ends at the grave.

A follower of Christ remains indifferent to the insignificant infatuations and loves of this fleeting world while constantly being mindful of those eternal things that “the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard”!

]]> By: Ted M. Gossard http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/09/07/so-when-i-think-like-this-am-i-losing-it-or-just-waking-up/#comment-2436 Ted M. Gossard Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:20:46 +0000 http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=505#comment-2436 Excellent words here, Mart, and of course what is excellent is true. Yes, I think we begin to become the people we were meant to be when we seek to put first things first: God and his will and his kingdom over ourselves and our feelings and will. Then we begin to find true life. I'm working on that, I hope. A good reminder for us. Thanks. Excellent words here, Mart, and of course what is excellent is true.

Yes, I think we begin to become the people we were meant to be when we seek to put first things first: God and his will and his kingdom over ourselves and our feelings and will. Then we begin to find true life. I’m working on that, I hope. A good reminder for us. Thanks.

]]> By: Gale L. Jarvis http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/09/07/so-when-i-think-like-this-am-i-losing-it-or-just-waking-up/#comment-2435 Gale L. Jarvis Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:18:35 +0000 http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=505#comment-2435 Good morning everyone, Mart the Daily Bread this mroning goes right along with this thought, success can be an adiction in many different direction, whether we believe we have the perfect wife and worship her, or we are on top of the corporate ladder, what ever stops a person from spending time with God every day because they believe they do not need him, or His direction throughout the day needs to stop, because as God tells us, everything is temporal that we can see, and can be taken from us, or we can be taken from them. As you said Mart and i fully agree if a person loves God as they should, they will desire the very best for their wife, and everyone that God puts in their life every day, whether they are an employee, or on top of the corporate ladder, their love for God will come out in every thing they do. Good morning everyone, Mart the Daily Bread this mroning goes right along with this thought, success can be an adiction in many different direction, whether we believe we have the perfect wife and worship her, or we are on top of the corporate ladder, what ever stops a person from spending time with God every day because they believe they do not need him, or His direction throughout the day needs to stop, because as God tells us, everything is temporal that we can see, and can be taken from us, or we can be taken from them.
As you said Mart and i fully agree if a person loves God as they should, they will desire the very best for their wife, and everyone that God puts in their life every day, whether they are an employee, or on top of the corporate ladder, their love for God will come out in every thing they do.

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