Control or Be Controlled

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What fears have you overcome and how?

Fear, an invisible force that will either paralysis or motivate. While a healthy emotion, when experienced in large quantities it can be controlling and manipulative. How a person handles those fears could either result in success or failure, survival or death. Many times in my life I have overcome  things that give me fright, whether as a result of  pure courage or nothing more than necessity. As a child I was afraid of going to school, the dark, and bees. I have overcame those particular mindsets with knowledge. As a young  adult I was afraid of not adulting correctly and the fear of death hung in my mind often. I have strengthened my relationship with God and have removed those fears. My most recent one would be my blog. I was afraid my writing would be ridiculed and rejected. I was afraid I could not stay committed to posting and feared I would somehow fail. I am conquering that fear with God’s guidance and determination. To conclude, I could write a whole novel on my fears that I have overcome and the list is still growing daily.

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30 thoughts on “Control or Be Controlled”

      1. There was a typo in my reply. I said “help” instead of “Hell.” (The Devil made me do it. LOL).

        Anyway, once I stopped believing in God, and Heaven, and Hell, all that Catholic guilt for my “sins” was removed. That was a long time ago, when you could be damned to hell for eating a hot dog on a Friday. I just realized that it was all just made-up stuff to control the masses. The Catholic Church has since modified its stance on a lot of things, but I modified my stance on religion even more. I no longer believe that some Supreme Being is watching and scoring every move we make, and that led me to take personal control of my life, and that gave me freedom.

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      2. So your fear of being condemned pushed you away and the ungodliness you saw, I see. I disagree with how churches will push the narrative of hell and damnation but leave out God’s understanding and compassion. I can agree with you that traditions of men have infiltrated most churches and so called religions today. They use the traditions to shame people and brow beat them into acceptance. Most churches lie and deceive like Christmas being God’s birthday or Easter is a Christian holiday. They chase fame and recognition instead of glorifying God. A house of God barely exists anymore. They have a “hollier than thou” personality. This is why my family and I no longer attend traditional churches. They wouldn’t know Jesus if he set amongst their congregation.
        I do however believe in a higher power but I didn’t ask your perspective to preach to you or “plant a seed”. I am genuinely curious, what do you think the after life will be like? You mentioned Atheist so does that mean you also denounce the devil?

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      3. Yes, as an atheist, I don’t believe in the Devil either. My opinion on religion is that it is good for building communities and helping the less fortunate. All the rest is mumbo jumbo. Some organized religions like televangelists are just con games.

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      5. I have absolutely no idea what happens after death. My guess is that nothing happens. The body just deteriorates and the life force dissipates. My favorite story about what happens after death comes from President James Buchanan. He told his housekeeper, Miss Hetty, that he had no idea what happens after death. He explained that some religions believe in reincarnation, and he would be perfectly happy to be reincarnated as a frog in the frog pond on his land. After Buchanan died, Miss Hetty switched churches, and she asked to be baptized in the frog pond on Buchanan’s estate.

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      9. To be absent from the flesh is to be present with the Lord. I have heard about the book of the dead. Though I have little interest in that particular book because the Bible is the book of the living word and was written by He who conquered death.

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  3. congrats for every fear faced and conquered, your courage is motivating, you express how hard it has been for you so a massive pat on the back, not trying to be condescending, well done Heather, stay up

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  6. I’m happy for you that you recognize the disconnect between the “traditions of men” and Christ, but sad that you’re not experiencing the fellowship of like-minded believers (related to one of your comments).

    Related to your post, I find it interesting that one of the fruits of God’s Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23 is “self-control”. Does a God Who wants to enslave and control humanity give you self-control? “Perfect loves casts out fear” 1 John 4:18. Not conditional, inconsistent human love, but God’s perfect love. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7

    I was afraid of losing my salvation as a Christian, but that was before I started studying the Bible in earnest for myself. Like you said, many churches misrepresent God, Who “is not willing that any should perish” (2 Peter 3:9) and Who takes “no pleasure in the death of the wicked” (Ezekiel 33:11).

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  8. What a lovely discussion! Thank you Heather, and EarlThePearl137. I’d like to pass along some short, simple (and related) thoughts I’ve come across recently…

    1. There are only 2 religions in the world: human achievement (I’ve done this and this, so I deserve to go to heaven); or divine accomplishment (“I could never be good enough to earn my way to heaven, but thank God, He made a way!”)

    2. How did the thief on the cross make it to heaven? Google “Alistair Begg The Thief on the Cross”. (The best experience is to hear him in a SHORT video–quite a chuckle!)

    3. 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 which begins, “…the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” …and ends: “the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.”

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    1. Thank you so much for joining the discussion. Its been a few days since you comments so I wanted to comment back and let you know i plan to watch the video soon and give you a proper response. Until then, God bless and have a great day.

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