I feelI feel that the perception I have of God is that I know he is my saviour, provider, shelter and lover. Daily on the world race I am finding this more and more that he provides us with food, with shelter and that his love is poured on us daily. I see his blessing more here than I could at home. Truthfully I could see them at home, but now I have an even greater appreciation for even, if you could believe it, pooping. We landed in China October 11 and from that day until October 24 I did not poop once! Rediculous, I would say, and so would my mates. Trust me there were many days of poop massages, bananas, dairy, spicy food, praying and basically anything I could think of to help the process. So I can say I am blessed to be able to poop.
I feel that the perception I have of God is that I know he is my saviour, provider, shelter and lover. Daily on the world race I am finding this more and more that he provides us with food, with shelter and that his love is poured on us daily. I see his blessing more here than I could at home. Truthfully I could see them at home, but now I have an even greater appreciation for even, if you could believe it, pooping. We landed in China October 11 and from that day until October 24 I did not poop once! Rediculous, I would say, and so would my mates. Trust me there were many days of poop massages, bananas, dairy, spicy food, praying and basically anything I could think of to help the process. So I can say I am blessed to be able to poop.
However in not being able to, God showed me some things about myself. I know, really, poop and God and Him relating it to my spiritual life. Trust me I know you're thinking "Wow Michelle, that's real gross". However, He did create it and so if He would like to show me things in that than props to Him for being a God that does not fit in our box of who He is.
What He had showed me was that like me not being able to poop, for what seemed like forever, was similiar to my spiritual life. How was my first question too. I was eating the right foods and being as healthy as one can be here. What He whispered was that in the same way we spiritually are fed daily or sometimes weekly in some peoples' cases. We go to church, we are good people, nice to our neighbours, read our Bibles, and help out at church if we are asked. I know, what the heck does this have to do with no poop? Is it enough to just go to church and be fed? The church has and is becoming spiriutally fat with no poop and by that I mean we continue to eat with no out-pouring. No poop.
James 2:26 says "As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead."
This will be blunt so prepare your hearts. If you are not active and not doing what God says is His will. Your faith is dead.
1 John 3:16-18 "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and seeshis brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth."
James 1:27 "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after the orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
there are more the bible is pretty vast, but those are good starters.
This is what I learned in not being able to poop. That I cannot just consume, but that there must be a out-pour. that the perception I have of God is that I know he is my saviour, provider, shelter and lover. Daily on the world race I am finding this more and more that he provides us with food, with shelter and that his love is poured on us daily. I see his blessing more here than I could at home. Truthfully I could see them at home, but now I have an even greater appreciation for even, if you could believe it, pooping. We landed in China October 11 and from that day until October 24 I did not poop once! Rediculous, I would say, and so would my mates. Trust me there were many days of poop massages, bananas, dairy, spicy food, praying and basically anything I could think of to help the process. So I can say I am blessed to be able to poop.
However in not being able to, God showed me some things about myself. I know, really, poop and God and Him relating it to my spiritual life. Trust me I know you're thinking "Wow Michelle, that's real gross". However, He did create it and so if He would like to show me things in that than props to Him for being a God that does not fit in our box of who He is.
What He had showed me was that like me not being able to poop, for what seemed like forever, was similiar to my spiritual life. How was my first question too. I was eating the right foods and being as healthy as one can be here. What He whispered was that in the same way we spiritually are fed daily or sometimes weekly in some peoples' cases. We go to church, we are good people, nice to our neighbours, read our Bibles, and help out at church if we are asked. I know, what the heck does this have to do with no poop? Is it enough to just go to church and be fed? The church has and is becoming spiriutally fat with no poop and by that I mean we continue to eat with no out-pouring. No poop.
James 2:26 says "As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead."
This will be blunt so prepare your hearts. If you are not active and not doing what God says is His will. Your faith is dead.
1 John 3:16-18 "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and seeshis brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth."
James 1:27 "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after the orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
there are more the bible is pretty vast, but those are good starters.
This is what I learned in not being able to poop. That I cannot just consume, but that there must be a out-pour.
