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Originally Posted by aron
My advice. Forget about relationships. Forget about career. Forget about everything. Ask yourself a few simple, basic questions. The ones God wants you to ask.
Not to put words in your mouth, but here are a few examples:
Did God really raise Jesus from the dead? What then does it mean, "If you confess with your mouth, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved"?
What does 'saved' mean? Who am I? Saved, or not? Why am I here?
Forget about the "hand fits in the glove" crap they spoon-fed you. You need your own answers. And believe me, they will come. God wants you to ask. He said, "Seek and you will find". The LSM tried to shut down your seeking and supply you with their material. Dump it. Start again.
What will happen is that at some point you will ask a question, of God, that will resonate in the core of your being. The answer will surprise you, I guarantee. You will know it is God. "My sheep hear my voice." Follow that voice. You will never get answers, only more questions. But I tell you, the path is peace. Jesus is . . . wow. Words fail me.
Along the way, you will find the Right Person and the Right Job and all that other stuff. But it starts with a question. You just have to find the right one. It is within you.
And I'm not talking 'mysticism' stuff. I am talking Bible. I go by the Word. Period. I supplement it with other readings, but Jesus is the Word of God. It all starts with the Bible. Use your Bible to find the right question. Then God will answer, because He's been waiting for you to ask that question. He wants to tell you something.
Mediators are good and helpful. You will get many companions. But Jesus is the One True Mediator. He is the Faithful Witness. There is only one. Follow him.
God bless your journey.
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Not following this thread much, but AMEN to what Aron wrote here!!! Ask and He will answer. Sometimes it takes a while. Occasionally it happens almost immediately (I must confess I really enjoy those times!)
And let me add my marital 2 cents - when my wife and I were engaged (20 years a ago), she, being a very inquisitive person (I tell her that her questions would give Socrates a run for his drachma), was fond of asking long-term couples, "What is the secret to your longevity as a couple?" Let me tell ya, the answers were all over the map! Eventually we both came to one conclusion as to what formula makes a marriage work - THERE IS NO FORMULA!
Just as it says "God places the members in the body as He desires" I think the same is true of finding the right person. So pray, and He'll let you know.
