Wow, great advice!
I wish that whoever gave me that advice on my fickleness would have left their name so I could thank them. It was really good advice.
When I first started reading it I thought to myself that I've already heard the whole deal about how we have to think with our minds and we can't just play off our emotions. But then the advice of how we should just direct our desires towards God that He'll take care of the rest. I'm not completely sold on what the person meant by "the rest", but yes, I do believe that Christ is sufficient for all things. It's just that I have a hard time balancing how much I should use my mind and emotions at the same time.
I guess I would say I should use 100% of my mind, and just remember I can't totally rely on my emotions.
What I really think I need to do though is pray about whatever it is I get fickle about and let the Lord direct me in the way He wants me to go.
posted by lockmat @ 7:51 PM
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Hmmm, yep that was some rad advice you received indeed. I'm enjoying the fact that you thought it sounded like it was from an adult. Maybe I am really 27 years old and just posing as a college freshman for a journalistic viewpoint of the Christian college scene...hey, you never know.
Anyhow, I'm glad that I posted myself as "Anonymous" because Ms. Anonymous seemed to get a good reaction out of you. There's something fun about saying what I want to say, but with someone else's name...I think it's the look on a person's face when I tell them it was me. It's a mad good time.
I've always told people, "What you see is what you get" with me, but that's only a half truth. What's the whole truth? Perhaps it is, "What you see is what you do get, but that's not the whole picture, and sometimes it just takes a deeper look..."
So that's that, I guess. Thanks for thinking my advice was "great," even though you didn't know it was me.
Oh yeah, and what I meant by "the rest" is seriously everything else. See, when we focus our insatiability for more onto knowing and loving God more, then we won't have those empty spots in our lives to fill with temporal fascinations and thrills. God will consume our insatiabilities, thereby giving us freedom from all kinds of addictions (even addictions to excitement or our emotional outlooks on life, or better yet, our oh, so human addiction to fickleness) to be completely and recklessly dedicated to His cause and purpose for our lives.
Okay, I'm done. For now anyway. You should be made aware that whatever you post in this blog, I will have something to say about it 99% of the time. I have something to say about almost everything...and the word that says it all...BAH! See you later!
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