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To: metmom
Amen.
Seems like the closer I get to God, the more aware of the depths of sin in my life and how it taints EVERYTHING.

And the more we can/should give grateful thanks to God for Jesus.

There’s not a thing I can think of that I’ve ever done that hasn’t had some self-serving motive in it.

Careful there, just because something benefits you (one interpretation of "self-serving") doesn't mean that it's bad/sinful — take eating as an example; we clearly know that Adam and Eve [could/did] eat before the fall. (This likely means that they got hungry, too.) So eating in and of itself isn't a sin, even though there's an obvious "self-serving" benefit.

[Though eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil obviously was.]

54 posted on 01/20/2015 1:17:25 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

I wasn’t thinking of something like eating.

It’s more what I do and choices I make.

As I’ve been reading Tozer, *The Pursuit of God*, he discusses doing everything for the glory of God and puts a good perspective on it.

I’m not sure what chapter it’s in and whether I’ve done a thread on that chapter yet.


57 posted on 01/20/2015 2:04:15 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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