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Originally Posted by Trapped
I was in a meeting in the last couple years where the fellowship was about, what else, life.
I can't recall the details of the meeting, but in the sharing time afterward a brother stood up and balled his hands up into fists while punching the air (is there a better phrase to describe that action we all know?), saying desperately, "I just need life! Oh, I just want life! I have been so dry and down and am so desperate for life!"
I just sat there watching him, thinking, "what else have you all been talking about for the past countless decades? how is it you are desperate for what you all should be swimming in by now?"
What I'm trying to describe is what feels like an atmosphere of always pining for something that is never quite obtained. And how can it be obtained? They are told "if you think you have obtained, you haven't. And if you don't think you've obtained, you have!" That leaves you always pining. There's no joy in that.
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Can life itself be an idol? I think so - "the pride of life." (1 John 2:16) But where is life, and more accurately, who is life? It is Jesus, the way, the truth and THE LIFE!
It's kind of the same thing when saying "Turn to your spirit." This phrase is not in the Bible. Of course, the Lord is one with our spirit, but to focus on spirit instead of the Lord is a little off, wouldn't you say? Plenty of verses about turning to the Lord. It may seem like a minor point, but just like this "life" that the LC brother was so intent on finding - not there except in Christ Himself.