Something to ponder #3: What does the Word of God proclaim about the child of God?

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Permalink Reply by Amanda on June 26, 2014 at 9:57am

Thank you. I was just reading the testimony of someone who survived an abusive childhood, and I identified with her very much. She said, when she was young, she cried out to God but her situation was very desperate, and, no matter how much she cried out, she felt he wasn't stopping anything and wasn't helping her. So, she began to believe she couldn't trust God. She said, as an adult, her life has been a journey of learning to trust him. God spoke to me through what she said, as I was looking back on many of my own past experiences, and I was able to see that, back then, I wasn't just conscious that there was a God but that I had found God during my own crying out to Him and have been in relationship with Him since then, but I strayed from the path and wandered very far. I'm fighting now, like this woman said she had to fight -- to experience the renewing of my mind that God is trustworthy. Romans 12.2.

As you work with the youth, maybe my sharing this will help you understand where some of them are coming from, their backgrounds and experiences and why they believe some of the things they believe about God, which are not true but they don't yet see that they aren't true.

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Permalink Reply by Gary Schultz on June 27, 2014 at 8:54am

Thanks. I am always learning and trying to understand.

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