tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post7587085001576185861..comments2023-10-21T04:32:31.262-05:00Comments on Following Judah's Lion: Teach Me Humility, JesusRick Fruehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879848568892457571noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-81302796490771005952013-01-12T13:46:57.670-05:002013-01-12T13:46:57.670-05:00I can truly relate to what you are saying Pastor R...I can truly relate to what you are saying Pastor Rick. This is a moment by moment battle with the flesh and that is why we are invited to walk in the Spirit. I appreciate how the Holy Spirit checks you right away. When I feel the pull of that yoke, I just smile and say, "thank you for correcting me." <br /><br />We are like little children who need constant guidance. So I don't do the guilt trip any more. I just thank God for the gift of His Spirit. What a wonderful experience to know that God is right there guiding you all the way. His yoke is easy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-67321697708016457772013-01-10T20:26:51.979-05:002013-01-10T20:26:51.979-05:00More of Him. Less of me.More of Him. Less of me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-34864099207536805782013-01-10T11:14:29.200-05:002013-01-10T11:14:29.200-05:00The reason I started reading here is because of th...The reason I started reading here is because of the honesty and humility, which was something that I couldn't find on any other christian site. I thank the Lord for Rick Frueh. <br /><br />It's so easy though to feel that satisfied justification when someone else is doing wrong. I've been there, done that. I've been working on my nature, trying to remember that I cave and have opinions on politics and the abounding hypocrisies, but it doesn't edify if only I discuss it like the retired guys at McDonald's in the early morning hours having a coffee and nitpicking about death taxes and politics. It doesn't change anything. It just creates more frustration and confusion. <br /><br />There may be other sites out there that teach with the fruit of the Spirit, but I have yet to find any. I'm not looking for any perfect sites, only those who say, like Bro. Rick, that they sometimes stumble (with humility) and will try again. There are many sites that claim they're christian, and slam man after man (men of the world system). They attack liberals, unbelievers, or those not of their ilk who do not yet know Jesus Christ. They are barking up the wrong tree. Jesus didn't come to condemn the world, yet these christian sites condemn the men in the world left and right. They love to judge unbelievers. They refuse to bring the dark deeds of church men and women to light or to chastise them. They make it seem that anyone who claims they are a christian are pure and righteous, even though they speak and act like the devil. The epistles were directed at the Church. Warnings, admonishing, guidance was directed at the saints. So why do so many professed christians speak so cruelly about those who don't yet believe? Shouldn't they be warning believers? <br /><br />If christians in the public square would look after their own House, unbelievers might be drawn to Jesus. If the role model christians who have a public voice would clean out their own vessels in public, maybe sinners would be drawn to the humility of Christ. But sinners aren't drawn to the church, especially now, because churchmen/churchwomen are acting as though they are sinless, pointing the finger at secular politicians, and arriving at zero in setting a Christ-like example. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-538968480639265462013-01-09T17:13:49.180-05:002013-01-09T17:13:49.180-05:00Amen to all.Amen to all.Rick Fruehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05879848568892457571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-72912361232733505682013-01-09T16:53:43.745-05:002013-01-09T16:53:43.745-05:00I am (mercifully) reminded that I can't "...I am (mercifully) reminded that I can't "work up" or "supply" or "will" humility. It is the Divine Nature; and not to be found one iota in my fallen nature. But thanks be to the Lord Who makes us partakers of the divine nature! 2Pet.1:3,4!<br /><br />Oh, I have seen the beauty of Jesus' self-giving, self-emptying humility, and wanted to attain to it. And in good intention, I did the actions that a humble one would do, putting others first and sacrificing; but somewhere along the way I had become legalistic or humanistic, and I was trying to manufacture it, to conform to a standard in my own efforts, and it made me resentful and hurt and judgmental toward others and toward myself. Oh where had I fallen from the grace of abiding IN Him and letting His life flow, and from putting on Christ?<br /><br />I thank God for this post. And I thank Him for sending me again to writings like 2Pet.1:3,4 and Andrew Murray's that lead me back to simply trusting and believing and abiding (and obeying!) but deliver me from the error that had condemned me that I had to come up to the standard. No--I simply have to die and allow the Perfect One to live out His life in me in the power of His Spirit!<br /><br />Grateful,<br />Victoria Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-54083613339678042142013-01-09T14:55:50.899-05:002013-01-09T14:55:50.899-05:00Mrs K,
that is what is astounding about it isn...Mrs K,<br /><br />that is what is astounding about it isn't it? Jesus was tempted in this point being made in here by Rick!<br /><br />With that said I think of His beckoning us here:<br /><br /><b><i>Mat 11:28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. <br />Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. <br />Mat 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." </i></b><br /><br />Thanks again Rick. This is such a rich Word and it humiliates me, too!<br /><br />May God's richest blessing flow from His Heaven that is to your earth day, Rick, where you live and work and play!michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01744678277860175675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-47159746531714877612013-01-09T14:40:28.789-05:002013-01-09T14:40:28.789-05:00"For we do not have a high priest who cannot ..."For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin." (Hebrews 4:15)<br /><br />Thanks be to God!mrs knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-45190232639479312752013-01-09T14:31:09.803-05:002013-01-09T14:31:09.803-05:00Those of us who chose to descend as Christ
Descen...Those of us who chose to descend as Christ<br />Descended will find much room at the bottom.<br />There's just WAY to many ascending to the<br />Top, jostling for positions, reputation , <br />Names for ourselves , within the church system<br />And the world's.we can truly love on and serve<br />The needy if we are below them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com