Featured My feelings of failure and not being good enough....

Here is some good advice for a change. Know that this is where God has put you, and go on the exact course with the exact habits you have been. From your posts, I know you have faith in the Lord. If I had one correction to make in what you are doing, that would be to have more faith and confidence in yourself and your abilities. Anyone who witnesses on the street is the top of the line to me.

 

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

BTW you walk by faith and by SIGHT. If you claim otherwise, you are being dishonest. Why don't you stop trying to score drive by points.

 

You're tripping. :thumbsup:

The word is and can be used in both a literal and a figurative sense.

There are and were willing slaves in OT times.

The term slave is not limited to your negative connotations nor to your politically correct angle, and no matter if it is termed servant or slave they are both nonetheless slaves. You're attempting to make my meaning, the literal Biblical meaning by the way, fit the scenario of slave ships that had gone to Africa and forced people into ships to bring here into forced slavery.

Lose the word forced and the assumption that I've used it.

No matter how bad you want to force that into what I am saying it's not true and doesn't reflect what I am saying, and this is exactly the sense you are forcing upon the term.

 

NO, you were doing your best to score drive by points against WD. That is patently obvious.

 

We are our own worst enemy. Don't push yourself too hard. Just be effective, but do take breaks to eat and also decompress when you can. I'm afraid the breakneck pace at which you are going could burn you out quickly and you could become cynical towards the job which will in fact affect your effectiveness.

Work hard, do a great job, but do take time to think of you my man.

 

Good job sir!

 

If in fact you are a pastor, you would last about one week if any local church in this area was stupid enough to call you.

 

Evangelist

From my very simplistic observations of your contributions, you set your personal expectations bar at times too for yourself to reach. You should simply recognize that a Job or career is simply a means to provide sustenance for ourselves and families. You should be patient, making yourself available, and "observe" for opportunities to share and inject your faith into a conversation, rather than trying to make those opportunities happen. When people know and respect you, and that can take time, they will often unknowingly grant you those opportunities to share the joy in your heart. Sharing your faith, in the context of working relationships is considerably different than any kind of "preaching", street preaching or otherwise. Concentrate on preparing and making YOUR heart available, God will grow you and grant you opportunities to share HIS message and love with others. Be patient.

 

Not true. A bond slave has willingly given himself as a slave forever.

Exodus 21:5-6 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

 

Thanks AMYG you saved me from looking that one up.....it is a great picture of how once willing slaves to sin...when set free by Jesus jn 8...willingly put themselves under His lordship and kingdom purposes;

16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

 

Son,you have to stop your infantile tirades.

You loudly,and repeatedly said you had put him on ignore and yet you obviously did no such thing. That's called what?

Do what you said you were going to do:

S/N :"And civil I will stay. You will never catch me off guard like that again." 5/18/13

 

Which is the reason he is not a "slave" to the extent most people understand the term, which is exactly what I explained in my last two posts, something you would have absorbed had you read carefully those two posts.

 

Okay, I'm saying all this because you sound like someone I know and care about and this is exactly what I would tell him. So it might sound a little odd in the wording because it's not just generic, but what I'd say to him face to face if he just said to me what you just typed. And if it doesn't pertain to you then fine, but your personality sounds so very similar that I'm going at it the same.

Setting reasonable goals and making allowances if something temporarily changes your course.

That's always different for each person and each goal, whether it's a long or short term goal, even a daily goal. Sometimes life just happens. People get colds, or traffic is bad, or your body made you take five breaks from work in one day when that wasn't part of the plan or someone at home was sick and your boss gets disappointed that you called in, but you have to take care of your family too and yourself if you're too sick to go and be safe while there. You need goals, but just as much, you need to learn that you're not a bad person when life happens. It's part of what makes it all interesting and what it is. Yeah, some people hate that, but let's not get all "Brave New World" here. It wouldn't end well for the ones that don't like anything to ever get messy.

Not allowing others to define how you feel beyond a reasonable point. For example, if you didn't do a decent job, there's not much point in not taking the consequences. However, if you did decent and you know it and your boss or the person next to you is having a bad day, you still might go ahead and (unfairly) accept their criticism if it's not abusive, because that's probably just how you are and it's not my intent or right to say you shouldn't do that, but in your heart, you should not be thinking to yourself that it's your fault. You should be thinking "what is going on in this person's life that they are lashing out at me when I did nothing wrong?" Instead of bringing up feelings that you're not good enough or that somehow it is your fault, try to find compassion for them and realize that it is their problem, not yours. Pray for them. Realize they need it. And pray for yourself. You need it to when you're treated wrong. You're not a sissy to need comfort from the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes, people are their own worst critics, and also very sensitive to perceived criticism. People like that tend to get taken advantage of, then they feel even worse because they feel dumb after, but then tend to feel better about it by telling themselves "I'll act Christian about it and take it as a suffering for Christ." You're allowed to be angry...and sin not. You're allowed to be more cautious and you're allowed to be careful.
With this personality, it's also a good idea to think for a little while before automatically feeling bad over something someone said. Ask yourself a few times if there's another way it could be interpreted. Try to train your brain to always think of the positive interpretation first. (of course sometimes it's just really obvious that it wasn't!)

 

Perhaps you Rippon should re-evaluate your role as proctor for SN. Is that your job?

 

Why don't you discuss that with your boss? If he/she believes you are doing a good job, I'm sure they would listen to your concerns and give you some guidance.