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Originally Posted by Felicity
The determination to:
- push through the cacophony of voices all around us i.e. demanding critical voices of people and the voice of all the different media forms available ... television, internet, television, etc. that can absorb our time and energy and dull our hearing and our sensitivity to spiritual things
- push through peer pressure
- push through ease and comfort
- push through carnality and an "at ease in Zion" mentality
- so that we can hear the voice of God and know what the will of God is for us personally and then to perform it to the best of our ability.
- Also, there's an incredible need for thankfulness and gratitude. We need to recognize the blessings of God and give praise to God. We're not going to truly be able to express proper thankfulness and receive all that God has for us unless we first and truly recognize the goodness of God in our lives and the huge store of blessing that we have. We grumble and complain so much and we take so much for granted!
Just a few thoughts.
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Good thoughts they are...
The "at ease in Zion mentality" could probably take up a thread all by it self.
How easy it is to become so used to the way things are, doing what we have always done...not by unction from the Holy One, but because we have learned how to do it.