tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post5530199666458956872..comments2024-03-12T10:35:54.578-05:00Comments on Homeward Bound: Lord, Teach Us To Pray! Part 217Michael Boldea Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09695469447648193872noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-87508632799581927662013-01-24T08:02:03.061-06:002013-01-24T08:02:03.061-06:00People who are convinced that they are right and t...People who are convinced that they are right and that God loves them no matter what are really taking God for granted. Any time you do that in a relationship, you end up alienating the other person. When you love someone, you hope that they love you or are so impressed with them that you don't care if they love you back. They either receive your attention with gratitude or with contempt. <br /><br />If they hate you, you move on but if they love you, you hope that they will keep doing so. Unconditional love is a myth. Love is tempermental just like any other emotion. God is willing to love us if we listen and obey. Meaning well and doing whatever are not going to cut it.<br /><br />Lots of people claim to know what God wants and to be the best example of it. It is the people who are humble and hope to even be worthy who are the ones who will continually seek to please him. The rest are like boastful lovers, bragging how they are the biggest prize.<br /><br />Some of these braggarts will even try to tell you that you are going to hell for not conforming to their way of doing things. They must think that they have God wrapped around their finger. <br /><br />Is it the God of the Sunday morning dance party and megachurch marketing schemes who they serve? Is it the God of gossip and backbiting to use Christianity as a means of exalting yourself? The Bible says what godly character is.<br /><br />These people are fools to a Christian and a Christian is a fool to them.Barbaranoreply@blogger.com