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Name: Nicholas
Country: United States
Birthday: 11/12/1981
Gender: Male
Interests: GOD AND THE PURSUIT OF HIS WILL IS THE BIGGEST THING IN MY LIFE. Next, I like old cars, classic superheroes, learning new things about the Scriptures, and classic rock and Christian rock/ alternative/ and pop. I love most out doors things, but it seems that the insects like me more. I'll try any sport if the chance presents itself, and enjoy playing most of them. I like to think I'm traditional, and I was raised to be chivalrous and treat women with respect. There are some things that never need to be forgotten no matter how much people think they have evolved.
Expertise: The only thing I can share with people is how much God has shown me and how to do things the way that He wants them done. I'm not perfect, but it's what I know best. :)
Occupation: Other
Industry: Other
Message: message me
AIM:  Prince4God81
Member Since:
6/11/2004
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| Ironic that I should be posting this so long after, and in such fitting contrast to my last post... God's funny like that.
I'm different. I am no longer the same person that so many of you knew at the beginning of 2008. My life is changing. I am taking steps in my life to be the person I've always imagined that God created me to be. While I don't necessarily like the steps I chose that got me to where I am today, I know that my God is doing amazing things. I have asked God questions about Him and about me, asked myself questions about what I believe about God and what I believe about me, hard questions I have never asked before. I have read books, talked to friends, talked to family, and gathered wisdom from those different than me, sometimes older. I've asked honest questions seeking honest answers, painful answers, from people whose answers I respect and trust. I am different.
I've learned where my healthy boundaries are (sometimes the hard way) and trust that God is going to increase those boundaries as I continue to follow Him with all that I have. I have put boundaries in place where I have never put boundaries in place before. I have said and done things that I have never said and never done before. I have done things, both good and bad, that people don't understand. I am different.
Now, in 2009, I want to take a stand for my God, to take initiative in so many things and just go out and go boldly, like the ones in faith did before me. I want to do it simply trusting that God is going to give me what I need to do what He's given me to do.
So here are my idealistic goals for 2009 that I think I can achieve by God's power:
1) I will settle for no deep, personal, romantic relationship with a female, real or "imaginary", that does not have our Lord Jesus Christ at the center of it. She will be treated with the dignity and love that our Lord God treats her with to let her know she is dearly loved and cherished. No exceptions.
2) I want to take better care of the physical shell that God has blessed me with for my time here, faults and all, and treat it with the dignity and respect worthy of something God himself has taken the time, effort, and energy to create.
3) I want to grow in the wisdom, knowledge, and character of my Lord Jesus Christ. I wish to daily grow into a deeper relationship with Him so that the gates of hell will never stand against the relentless power that my God brings through the Lord Jesus Christ, so fewer and fewer people will be held captive by it's lies and twisted deceptions. I want to be like Jesus.
4) I want to treat other people with the love, dignity, forgiveness and respect that my God has given to me. I want to give to them like He has given to me: freely, consistently, graciously, mercifully, and in abundance. They are His creation as well, and they deserve just as much as He has given me.
I love you all. May God bless you in abundance with all the good gifts He has to give. Amen. :) | | |
| I hear stuff every day like, “I don’t have anything. I don’t have anyone that even seems to care.” People in our world are not waiting to hear about how crappy they are, how worthless they are, and how nothing that they can do will get them to heaven. They’re waiting to hear about something that can deliver them from all that hopelessness and despair. If there’s anybody that’s an expert on all the stuff that I do wrong, it’s me. I don’t need anyone else to tell me that, and I certainly don’t need Satan (whose name means “accuser”) to stand before God and accuse me of all the stuff I’ve ever done wrong. I can tell God myself. What I need is a Deliverer: someone that can give me hope that can heal me and bring me out of the stuff I can’t get out of myself. I can’t do it. I know this. If I could, I would have done it years ago. I don’t need to hear how crappy I am. I need to hear that I’m worth saving, and that there’s a God there that’s itching to save me, if I’d give Him the chance to. I need to hear about a God that’s completely capable of making me whole, of cleansing me from all the crap that I got myself into to begin with. I need to hear that I can be made pure again by a God that created us to be pure in the beginning. I need to hear that there’s a God that can restore me to what He intended for me to be. That, my friends, would be good news to hear. And THAT is what Jesus came to tell us. It’s real. | | |
| Some days I am a walking contradiction. Not a hypocrite in its true definition. I do not pretend to believe something, nor do I feign belief in something so as to maintain a public appearance of who I am, only to have my actions betray me and undermine my testimony. I am not an actor, as a true "hypocrite" is. No. My belief is sincere, but I admit that in and of myself I am incapable of attaining the standards that I strive for. This perfection I seek eludes me day by day by day. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. No, I do not pretend. I struggle. Does that mean that I ought to discard the goal just because I cannot reach it today? No. Just because I cannot reach it today does not mean I am no closer to reaching it than I was the day I started this journey. In fact, it is this reaching for the unattainable that has drawn me up. So I strive on. 12) Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13) Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14) I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Am I perfect? No. Am I dead? No. Then I'm not done yet. And I ask that you would forgive me as well, when my words and my actions don't match. For just like you, I lean on the grace and love of God through the hope I have in Jesus Christ. For it is through Him that I will one day reach this goal for which I strive... | | |
| What are your issues with God and Jesus? What keeps us from believing? I'm not asking about your issues with the people that claim to serve God or Jesus. We all know how imperfect human beings are and how inconsistent we are much of the time. I'm not asking about our imperfections and inconsistencies. I don't want to hear about your issues with Christians. I'm asking what you think about God and Jesus, and what hangups people might have to putting all of their faith into them. What do you think? | | |
| It's not everyday that someone gets to meet their neighbors over a Lamborgini Murcielago. Pics to come... | | |
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