Comments on: What is Your Source? http://www.bencotten.net/2008/05/21/what-is-your-source/ living life with eyes wide open Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:21:49 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Joseph Cotten http://www.bencotten.net/2008/05/21/what-is-your-source/comment-page-1/#comment-1537 Joseph Cotten Thu, 22 May 2008 18:22:28 +0000 http://www.bencotten.net/?p=349#comment-1537 Awesome insight, Heather. It reminds me of when the apostle Paul spoke of the Mosaic law being our tutor before we accept Christ. It's like all through history from when the 10 commandments and Mosaic law were given until Jesus' resurrection, that code of conduct was teaching humanity about God's nature, our sin, and our inability to meet God's standard. Then Jesus comes and changes everything. So, maybe what your kids have been going through is that tutoring process of binding themselves to a law of conduct, but then eventually seeing that they really need Jesus. Who knows, maybe what you see as a failing will be part of what God uses in their lives to grow them in Him! Awesome insight, Heather. It reminds me of when the apostle Paul spoke of the Mosaic law being our tutor before we accept Christ. It’s like all through history from when the 10 commandments and Mosaic law were given until Jesus’ resurrection, that code of conduct was teaching humanity about God’s nature, our sin, and our inability to meet God’s standard. Then Jesus comes and changes everything. So, maybe what your kids have been going through is that tutoring process of binding themselves to a law of conduct, but then eventually seeing that they really need Jesus. Who knows, maybe what you see as a failing will be part of what God uses in their lives to grow them in Him!

]]> By: ded http://www.bencotten.net/2008/05/21/what-is-your-source/comment-page-1/#comment-1533 ded Thu, 22 May 2008 11:28:04 +0000 http://www.bencotten.net/?p=349#comment-1533 clarification: I do not mean to imply that teenage sneeking is inevitable. Just that it is more likely when as Christian parents, we have made the issue rules instead of heart before God. clarification:

I do not mean to imply that teenage sneeking is inevitable. Just that it is more likely when as Christian parents, we have made the issue rules instead of heart before God.

]]> By: ded http://www.bencotten.net/2008/05/21/what-is-your-source/comment-page-1/#comment-1532 ded Thu, 22 May 2008 09:07:38 +0000 http://www.bencotten.net/?p=349#comment-1532 Obedience is better than sacrifice. Jesus is the way. Obey His heart within and you will do all that is out in the open to His glory. There is life in the spirit; everything else is death. Amazing what kids can teach us! It's beautiful to hear you write this. When they are teenagers, they don't keep the rules to get along. They find ways to break them out of your sight. Obedience is better than sacrifice. Jesus is the way. Obey His heart within and you will do all that is out in the open to His glory.

There is life in the spirit; everything else is death.

Amazing what kids can teach us! It’s beautiful to hear you write this. When they are teenagers, they don’t keep the rules to get along. They find ways to break them out of your sight.

]]> By: Peggie http://www.bencotten.net/2008/05/21/what-is-your-source/comment-page-1/#comment-1528 Peggie Thu, 22 May 2008 02:03:32 +0000 http://www.bencotten.net/?p=349#comment-1528 When my first husband was very ill I began to realize how scared I was as I thought of his death. We had no savings, bills galore from his sickness and no life insurance. I lived in a house that was part of his job (pastor) and knew I was going to be homeless with no income when he died. It was at that low point I realized my whole dependency had to be on God or I was not going to make it. It was a valuable lesson and after his death I clung to "My Dependency" for dear life. I was never lacking! When my first husband was very ill I began to realize how scared I was as I thought of his death. We had no savings, bills galore from his sickness and no life insurance. I lived in a house that was part of his job (pastor) and knew I was going to be homeless with no income when he died.

It was at that low point I realized my whole dependency had to be on God or I was not going to make it. It was a valuable lesson and after his death I clung to “My Dependency” for dear life. I was never lacking!

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