My lament

[Adoration]

If this is in the wrong place... someone will have to move it to the proper section... I really still don't understand all the rules here yet.


The world has gone mad.

That is exactly how I feel today... I think the shock of things has finally worn off and yesterday... I found myself in uncontrollable fits of weeping. I have shared this earlier... and I don't want to repeat myself... but for those just reading this post.... I was confronted by my landlords last week and told that

1. It was my duty to read the government pamphlet that was taped to my door.
2. It was my duty to get vaccinated.

Honestly.... I did not see this bullet coming... It totally blind-sided me... as my sharing of deciding NOT to get vaccinated was something I mentioned in brief conversation with my landlords... in the same way I have shared so many things through out my 6 years here.

The above is a lament.... and I pray no one just tells me I am whining. I got that a lot when I would write things on my heart at another forum.

It seems that JOY has left me... and SORROW has returned... It was a summer that I will never forget... and the sweetness of her presence is deeply routed in my spirit.

I seem to be entering a new season of deep pondering about things that I have never had to think about before... such as how on earth I am going to navigate my life in a world that has become so hostile.

My conversations on the covid thread solidified this reality... I was so hoping to be proven wrong... but the masses are increasing... and with that the pressure to conform will increase.

My reasons for choosing an alternative route have been dismissed... cancelled... denied... and deemed even as UN-CHRISTIAN.... I am unable to wrap my brain around this kind of thinking within the Christian world.

I am going to be taking a break from the internet for awhile... I need to pray... I need to think... I need to ponder deeply.... topics that I would not normally choose to ponder.... and I suppose I have to begin to accept that reality has changed... very quickly and very dramatically.

Never in all my years alive... did I ever think I would see the day where I was made to feel like I have to justify how I live my life... or the choices I make.

 

[for_his_glory]

None of us have to justify our self to anyone, especially when we know who we are in Christ and our walk with Him. We will always have those who come against us with their unreasonably, unrationed thoughts, theories that run rampant in their own mind as they have no Spiritual understanding.

The world will always love it's own that bows down to the legalistic mandates, but we who are Christ own are no longer of this world, even though we have to live in it. I refuse to allow others to try and lead my life as I am my own person and the decisions I make are my own. If they do not like it, so big deal as I do not answer to man, but to God only. This makes others mad, but so be it as I have to live my life for the Lord and follow Him only.

When I read Matthew 24 and what Jesus has already taught us that of what must come first before His return we see this on a much greater scale today as even those who call themselves a Christian comes against those who are truly Christ own. Just keep your eye on the prize of inheriting the Kingdom of God as you run the race with dignity, integrity and valor putting on the full armor of God that you will stand in the face of the enemy in which Christ gives us the victory.

Anytime you need to talk I am only a PM away.

 

[Sister]

If it is any comfort... No outward change can harm the inward transformation that God has done in our hearts.

"And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Matthew 10:28

I don't know the right answer to the vaccine. I hear things like this and my heart breaks. I don't want to take it, because I don't want any part of the "fight." I'm tired of the entire fight over every little thing. Christians are supposed to be so much different, right?

I'm trying to find the balance in making important decisions and not letting others influence that. It is hard to say no to that influence though. Every time I think about it I just am heavy hearted. I'll be praying for you Addy. I understand your feelings on things. There is just no escaping it.

 

[Quantrill]

If this is in the wrong place... someone will have to move it to the proper section... I really still don't understand all the rules here yet.


The world has gone mad.

That is exactly how I feel today... I think the shock of things has finally worn off and yesterday... I found myself in uncontrollable fits of weeping. I have shared this earlier... and I don't want to repeat myself... but for those just reading this post.... I was confronted by my landlords last week and told that

1. It was my duty to read the government pamphlet that was taped to my door.
2. It was my duty to get vaccinated.

Honestly.... I did not see this bullet coming... It totally blind-sided me... as my sharing of deciding NOT to get vaccinated was something I mentioned in brief conversation with my landlords... in the same way I have shared so many things through out my 6 years here.

The above is a lament.... and I pray no one just tells me I am whining. I got that a lot when I would write things on my heart at another forum.

It seems that JOY has left me... and SORROW has returned... It was a summer that I will never forget... and the sweetness of her presence is deeply routed in my spirit.

I seem to be entering a new season of deep pondering about things that I have never had to think about before... such as how on earth I am going to navigate my life in a world that has become so hostile.

My conversations on the covid thread solidified this reality... I was so hoping to be proven wrong... but the masses are increasing... and with that the pressure to conform will increase.

My reasons for choosing an alternative route have been dismissed... cancelled... denied... and deemed even as UN-CHRISTIAN.... I am unable to wrap my brain around this kind of thinking within the Christian world.

I am going to be taking a break from the internet for awhile... I need to pray... I need to think... I need to ponder deeply.... topics that I would not normally choose to ponder.... and I suppose I have to begin to accept that reality has changed... very quickly and very dramatically.

Never in all my years alive... did I ever think I would see the day where I was made to feel like I have to justify how I live my life... or the choices I make.

Understand that you are correct in your thinking. The world moves on the thinking and logic of satan. We do not.

We must understand that just because we cannot change the way things are going, doesn't mean we have to conform to the way things are going.

Our non-conformity is a problem for the world. Thus the world will lash out at us.

Here in the U.S. we have seen dramatic changes in our government and way of life. From Christian to Atheism. The spiritual war continues even in times of apparent peace and safety.

Quantrill