tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985858969287915197.post2396390014732712199..comments2023-12-24T06:02:46.333-07:00Comments on The Perfect Day: 11. Are Your Eyes Wide Open?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985858969287915197.post-14787149736955567772013-11-17T05:36:28.245-07:002013-11-17T05:36:28.245-07:00I think the highly competitive free enterprise eco...I think the highly competitive free enterprise economy that we live in is purposely designed to encourage pride and divides us into different social and economic classes. "Trying to get ahead" comes to mind. Trying to get ahead of whom? Our neighbor? The national average? We are bombarded constantly with advertisements to tempt us to spend our money on everything. These I call the distractions of Babylon. It is like the glittering lights of Las Vegas seen as one drives north or south on the I-15 interstate highway. I like what Hugh Nibley said of our economic system. The Nephites did the same thing in their day. Hopefully we will be wiser than they were. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17304925736989744103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985858969287915197.post-36662606421625151732013-11-05T14:11:39.889-07:002013-11-05T14:11:39.889-07:00This especially is the plan of our adversary! Let ...This especially is the plan of our adversary! Let them think they are better and won't be tempted by some of the "smaller things" so they slowly let down their guard. Satan will lead us to hell with the flaxen cords we ourselves spin when we think we are impervious to his snares.Natalinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985858969287915197.post-65276435067234669012013-10-25T02:12:46.002-06:002013-10-25T02:12:46.002-06:00What Natali said; such as pride in being "one...What Natali said; such as pride in being "one of the few humble followers of Christ".PNW_DPernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985858969287915197.post-54925234547820283042013-10-22T11:33:38.398-06:002013-10-22T11:33:38.398-06:00Pride. Pride comes in many insidious forms. Pride ...Pride. Pride comes in many insidious forms. Pride in knowledge, pride in material things, pride from being better than someone else. Privacy is a form of pride as well. You can even be prideful about not having pride! ;)Natalinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985858969287915197.post-15231168279678938222013-10-22T00:13:51.983-06:002013-10-22T00:13:51.983-06:00Seeking knowledge/understanding from men...I look ...Seeking knowledge/understanding from men...I look to others as a faster way (short cut) to gain knowledge rather than paying the price of 93:1. In particular I don't call upon his name sufficiently. I find myself calling on others names more often than His. I am lazy. Lame but true. Like Jen, I don't know anything. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985858969287915197.post-9566731055690767232013-10-21T19:07:05.954-06:002013-10-21T19:07:05.954-06:00Confusion and overwhelm at the sheer amount of unk...Confusion and overwhelm at the sheer amount of unknown knowledge. The more I learn, the more I learn I do not know much of anything.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07729691287229935563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985858969287915197.post-19047731674263397692013-10-21T15:02:03.270-06:002013-10-21T15:02:03.270-06:00Fear.
Its subtlety lies hides behind all manner o...Fear.<br /><br />Its subtlety lies hides behind all manner of other troublesome things: judgement, anger, frustration, meanness, lust for control. The opposite of love, it motivates us in a direction contrary to God's will. If we want to draw close to Him, we have to be motivated by what He is motivated by. Following love WILL bring us closer to Him, even if we don't know Him by name. But, if we are controlled by fear, it WILL keep tripping us up. Look at Job. His only failing was fear (Job 3:25), and that gave the devil the opening he needed to get to work.<br /><br />I fully recognize we're all mortal here. (Myself, especially!) But, like the father of the boy possessed by a demon that would make him throw himself into the fire, we can cry to Jesus, "Lord, help thou my unbelief." And He will. He will! :o) He will show us where it lies, and show us how to love, instead. <br /><br />He loves us, no matter how fearful we are. Our ability to experience His love is directly inverse to the amount of fear we cherish in our bosoms--a spiritual serpent, indeed.Annaleahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12964274663555911996noreply@blogger.com