Comments for Summathetes http://summathetes.wordpress.com Exploring together with others what it means to follow Jesus Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:29:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Saying Words They Didn’t Understand by Chelle http://summathetes.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/saying-words-they-didnt-understand/#comment-190 Chelle Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:29:06 +0000 http://summathetes.wordpress.com/?p=510#comment-190 wow. i really needed this today. Like you, i do believe i see him for who he is and grasp what he's about (most of the time). I have noticed, lately, that i've fallen into this trap of looking at others who, according to my measure, have "shallow awe, transient celebration, short-lived words and inadequate celebration." i don't stomp around condemning every soul i see, but when i worship or speak of Christ, i'm so connected with God that it reverberates my soul - and when i don't see others reacting with me, the assumption that they're shallow or posers often comes to mind. shame on me...i know. wrestling with where i'm at versus where someone else is at in their journey to follow Christ is a delicate balance between modeling God-like grace and self-restraint. i don't always have it figured out, and God all too often proves this to me. i can only hope, as you do, that my time spent with Him will always be an authentic and honest pursuit in love. thanks, brother. wow. i really needed this today. Like you, i do believe i see him for who he is and grasp what he’s about (most of the time). I have noticed, lately, that i’ve fallen into this trap of looking at others who, according to my measure, have “shallow awe, transient celebration, short-lived words and inadequate celebration.”

i don’t stomp around condemning every soul i see, but when i worship or speak of Christ, i’m so connected with God that it reverberates my soul – and when i don’t see others reacting with me, the assumption that they’re shallow or posers often comes to mind. shame on me…i know.

wrestling with where i’m at versus where someone else is at in their journey to follow Christ is a delicate balance between modeling God-like grace and self-restraint. i don’t always have it figured out, and God all too often proves this to me. i can only hope, as you do, that my time spent with Him will always be an authentic and honest pursuit in love.

thanks, brother.

]]> Comment on Living Commendably by summathetes http://summathetes.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/living-commendably/#comment-189 summathetes Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:07:51 +0000 http://summathetes.wordpress.com/?p=541#comment-189 it is amazing and wonderful and grounds for rejoicing that our great God draws us faithfully into the experience of this life! were up to me, it would never happen. so sweet, so good of him. it is amazing and wonderful and grounds for rejoicing that our great God draws us faithfully into the experience of this life! were up to me, it would never happen. so sweet, so good of him.

]]> Comment on Living Commendably by redeemed http://summathetes.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/living-commendably/#comment-188 redeemed Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:16:24 +0000 http://summathetes.wordpress.com/?p=541#comment-188 such amazing grace - That even though we are weak we can be strong in Him - and even though we wander - because of Jesus we are never lost. I have been reading about this same thing this week and this is another reminder that God wants me to join Him in His kingdom work today. What an amazing God that He is drawing us by grace, through the Spirit, because of Jesus, into new life! such amazing grace – That even though we are weak we can be strong in Him – and even though we wander – because of Jesus we are never lost. I have been reading about this same thing this week and this is another reminder that God wants me to join Him in His kingdom work today. What an amazing God that He is drawing us by grace, through the Spirit, because of Jesus, into new life!

]]> Comment on Can You Hear Me Now? by summathetes http://summathetes.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/can-you-hear-me-now/#comment-187 summathetes Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:00:59 +0000 http://summathetes.wordpress.com/?p=429#comment-187 how glad i am--you said it well--the author of life never gives up on us. may we continually be drawn to the one who is drawing us into life. how glad i am–you said it well–the author of life never gives up on us. may we continually be drawn to the one who is drawing us into life.

]]> Comment on Always Someone Beneath You by summathetes http://summathetes.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/always-someone-beneath-you/#comment-186 summathetes Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:59:42 +0000 http://summathetes.wordpress.com/?p=439#comment-186 Savannah, Thanks . . . but I hope that whatever is awesome about these posts, is because you find them pointing to the One who is, truly, awesome. He is, after all, the greatest in the kingdom! Savannah,
Thanks . . . but I hope that whatever is awesome about these posts, is because you find them pointing to the One who is, truly, awesome. He is, after all, the greatest in the kingdom!

]]> Comment on Can You Hear Me Now? by Chelle http://summathetes.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/can-you-hear-me-now/#comment-182 Chelle Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:08:28 +0000 http://summathetes.wordpress.com/?p=429#comment-182 great reflection. the author of life never gives up on life! even when life gets self-absorbed, puffed up and incredibly blind to what the journey is really all about. catching up but still enjoying your blog. keep writing! great reflection. the author of life never gives up on life! even when life gets self-absorbed, puffed up and incredibly blind to what the journey is really all about.

catching up but still enjoying your blog. keep writing!

]]> Comment on Always Someone Beneath You by Savannah http://summathetes.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/always-someone-beneath-you/#comment-181 Savannah Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:52:39 +0000 http://summathetes.wordpress.com/?p=439#comment-181 Awesome blog! I thought about starting my own blog too but I'm just too lazy so, I guess I just have to keep checking yours out Awesome blog!

I thought about starting my own blog too but I’m just too lazy so, I guess I just have to keep checking yours out

]]> Comment on It’s Not About Acts of Serving by "newly-blown-mind" http://summathetes.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/its-not-about-acts-of-serving/#comment-180 "newly-blown-mind" Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:37:32 +0000 http://summathetes.wordpress.com/?p=434#comment-180 for me, this is going take some time to really sink in - and your next few posts help to expand on this idea - but my relationship with Jesus is usually asking him to supplement me in what I am doing - for example - give me the patience to deal with this... when I should be asking that he would change my heart and make me patient. Again it's the idea of BEING like Jesus rather than DOING things like he did. Life with Jesus is really liberating yet humbling at the same time! for me, this is going take some time to really sink in – and your next few posts help to expand on this idea – but my relationship with Jesus is usually asking him to supplement me in what I am doing – for example – give me the patience to deal with this… when I should be asking that he would change my heart and make me patient. Again it’s the idea of BEING like Jesus rather than DOING things like he did. Life with Jesus is really liberating yet humbling at the same time!

]]> Comment on It’s Not About Acts of Serving by summathetes http://summathetes.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/its-not-about-acts-of-serving/#comment-179 summathetes Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:44:55 +0000 http://summathetes.wordpress.com/?p=434#comment-179 it really does change the way i think about following Jesus and experiencing his kind of life when i move from thinking that he is trying to get me to "do things" and realize that he really wants to change me so that my "being" a certain kind of person changes. grace is good, Jesus is amazing! it really does change the way i think about following Jesus and experiencing his kind of life when i move from thinking that he is trying to get me to “do things” and realize that he really wants to change me so that my “being” a certain kind of person changes. grace is good, Jesus is amazing!

]]> Comment on It’s Not About Acts of Serving by "newly-blown-mind" http://summathetes.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/its-not-about-acts-of-serving/#comment-178 "newly-blown-mind" Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:14:41 +0000 http://summathetes.wordpress.com/?p=434#comment-178 being. not doing. That's life-changing stuff! you said Jesus is servant and so that kind of life flows out of him. the problem is I am selfish and that is (sadly) what usually flows from my life... maybe I have been thinking about servanthood all wrong. not that this is anything I haven't heard before - it's just a new of thinking about it. you did say life with Jesus is mind-blowing, right? well, mine is officially blown. being. not doing. That’s life-changing stuff! you said Jesus is servant and so that kind of life flows out of him. the problem is I am selfish and that is (sadly) what usually flows from my life… maybe I have been thinking about servanthood all wrong. not that this is anything I haven’t heard before – it’s just a new of thinking about it. you did say life with Jesus is mind-blowing, right? well, mine is officially blown.

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