Sometime ago one of my friends Nishanth asked me to write about my view on how one glorifies god through studying. This doodle came to me the other day while meditating on a bible passage that deals with glorifying god.
I must say that this is a crude sketch and I am not aiming to be very accurate, just to get thinking going. Pardon me the atrocious spelling.
You may comment.
Ciao
schizo
11 responses so far ↓
1 Nishanth // Mar 14, 2007 at 8:28 am
AP,
Thanks for taking in the trouble to put this in. The flow chart depicting the process in the order in which you have arranged it is excellent.
As you would be knowing, I agree with the second flow chart, the one you have written in black ink. We do our job faithfully, and its God’s pleasure to grant or withhold success from us. Amen!
For…
“17 Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.”
Habakkuk 3: 16 - 18.
2 Schizo // Mar 14, 2007 at 8:58 am
glas you think it is accurate. will be trying to expand on it.
ciao
schizo
3 Betsi // Mar 14, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Never was much of a hard worker..but there certainly is nothing to bless without at least an iota of work put in. We probably wont see the hand of God, if anything was achieved with hardly an effort;thus, no praise to Him.. I guess I’d need to palpate a little before I praise God..but then, thats just me…could we combine the two flowcharts?neither is complete, i should guess they make a good whole. That all boils down to hard work anyways. Huh, why cant I be a lazybum and have everything my way?not fair.
4 Schizo // Mar 14, 2007 at 7:36 pm
hey bets, welcome.
good point you make, hard work is effort, so is growing in your faith, i wonder which is more tough.
who would you combine hte two charts?
ciao
me
5 Tisha // Mar 14, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Although I am no longer a believer the second scheme seems accurate to me because nothing is done by “works” but “submission” to God.
6 Schizo // Mar 15, 2007 at 8:17 am
hey tisha, thank you.
Ever written about loosing your belief? It might help others.
ciao
schizo
7 saLome // Mar 17, 2007 at 12:44 pm
I think both the figures hold true…In the the sense there r people who work hard, excel and go to temples and distribute “prashad”. Their success is “God glorified” for them.
BUT for those who Believe in God… it goes like “commit ur ways to the Lord and He shall bring it to pass ” and after u actually (if u really do) commit, believe and wait, then be it success or failure it remains secondory…
8 Schizo // Mar 17, 2007 at 1:19 pm
hi salome, good perspective, and yes the verse summarizes it really well.
good girl.
ciao
9 Lancel // Mar 19, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Hmmm…
Very imp 2 understand the diff b/w the 2 charts…
I believe dat if v r in His perfect plan an will - He will never ‘withold’ success 4m us….
He has promised us dat wherever v go, whatever our hands touch, He will win d victory an giv us success….
For his glory…
Any work entrusted to us IS by God…
So we hav 2 work towards performin it 2 d best of our ability…
10 Schizo // Mar 19, 2007 at 6:51 pm
hi lancel,
thanks for stopping by
do you mean that a child of gos who is “in His perfect plan an will” will always get results thath he or she desires? can you tell me why believe that?
ciao
11 Wittenberg Gate // Mar 22, 2007 at 12:42 am
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