Posted on 04/04/2014 1:58:22 PM PDT by ebb tide
What part of, “I will not serve”, do you not understand? Do you know who first said that?
What did Christ say during HIs Agony in the Garden?
Actually, if you pray the Our Father, you do pray that God’s will be done.
Or do you not pray the Lord’s prayer?
Well then you just defeated your own argument with that example.
NOPE.
Your responses prove I was right all along.
Then don’t look over your shoulder.
Plus increase my respect and admiration for Pope Francis.
Do you want to change the wording on this? You don't really mean this, do you?
AMEN, second it.
Right about what? Arguing with God like Lucifer did?
Obviously not as much as you.........I'm curious, why were you passed over for the position?
As I have said, God has big shoulders, and arguing with God means you have a working relationship with Him.
Thank-you Your Holiness for making my day with this wonderful preaching. God Bless.
Well, Jesus didn’t argue with God in the Garden but are you saying you can?
If Moses argued with God, why can’t Catholics argue with the Pope?
Why are you making a big deal over what Pope Francis taught this week? Give it a rest. :)
What position?
Me too. It was helpful for me. If I can't talk to God as a son to a father, not with disrespect but still with insistence based in real human need, what kind of God am I believing in? A tyrant? A God who makes me suffer for an unfathomable mystery?
That's not the God who came to earth and became man. To believe in such a distant God, an unapproachable God, a God who demands only worship and doesn't want to hear our complaints, is actually precisely AGAINST the spirit of the "Pater Noster".
That, like all prayer, is supposed to be spoken as a child speaks to his father. His dad. His "Abba". And that's the same attitude the Pope is encouraging here.
So thanks for posting ebb tide; it was helpful for me because it addressed a need I'm struggling with now. Whether or not it's "ok" to get frustrated with God's timing, his plan, and bring this frustration to him and beg. Beg for his mercy and beg for his forgiveness and beg for a deeper appreciation for his love. In my own words.
I thank God for the Pope's words in this regard; I consider it an answer to my prayer. God letting me know he heard me and now answers me through the Pope. And that it's ok to talk to him like a friend.
It’s not just this week.
At least you are communicating with God.
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