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ok, i will be probably posting on saturdays from now on lol

things were starting to look up this past week for me... i have had a few revelations about myself, about God and life in general.

about me:i have known for a while that i find a lot of my significance i find in my relationships with people...especially older sisters. i think i depend on them too much to "help" me grow in my relationship with God. i also noticed myself getting so disappoined and unloved when they dont give me all the time or attention i want. i realized how this distracts me from fully seeking God with all my heart. so this week I decided to try and be less needy towards them and more needy towards God. i think its working! w00t w00t. ill see how it carries out this week and stuff too but i like it so far.

anyways, tryign to learn more about the gospel. learned a new method of studyign the bible...asking 3 questions. what did u learn about 1.God 2. yourslef 3. the gospel. I will do this with john 8.

background info--> a woman who was committing adultery was suppoesd to get stoned for punishment. Jesus said that whoever has not sinned has the right to punish that woman. so the crowd left but jesus went up to the woman and did not stone her:

10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”
11 “No, Lord,” she said.
And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”

12 Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, “I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won’t have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life.”

we have no right to judge other people because we are all sinners. i've been seeing more of my uglyness lately just in terms of being annooyed with people over petty things or sometimes i even majorly sin out of selfishness. regardless, i know i am bad. lol but the cool thing i got from the first chunk of scripture 10-12 is that even though Jesus has every right to punish us because He is sin-free, he chooses not to. All he asks of us is that we sin no more. such a simple request, yet we always break it dont we? Instead of punishing us for OUR sins, he takes the sin for himself and dies on the cross for us.

in regards to verse 12, sin leads to death, a relationship with jesus leads to life. i feel like we all know these things, but at the end of the day, im wondering if it penetrates our hearts enough. i know it doesn't mean enough to me. but i am realizing that instead of chasing all these alternatives to make myself temporarily happy and ultimately sinning, that maybe if I was chasing a relationshpi with God then perhaps I would experience a more fruitful and abundant life?

34 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin. 35 A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son is part of the family forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you are truly free.

We are all slaves of sin since we all sin. But the beauty of the gospel message can be seen in light of our sins! We have a choice to believe in Jesus and his power to set us free from our sin!

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