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To: Heart-Rest
Do you just wait indefinitely for God to hand you your daily bread directly each day, or do you sometimes go out shopping for groceries through various other human beings?

Not if someone promises it to me as a gift, delivered daily.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ephesians 2:4-10 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

510 posted on 01/08/2013 7:38:51 PM PST by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom
Amen! That is beautiful!

(None of that conflicts with Catholic doctrine.)

(Do you see anything in there that restricts how you confess your sins, or who you get your daily bread from, such as human grocers, or somehow restricts you from getting spiritual food and light through intermediate human sources, such as the human writers of the Gospels, or from human preachers, for example?    I don't.)

I have to go now, but I'll try to check back tomorrow for your reply.

May God bless you abundantly.

517 posted on 01/08/2013 7:54:23 PM PST by Heart-Rest ("The Church is the pillar and bulwark of the truth." (1 Timothy 3:15))
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