Comments on: Is God Your ATM Machine? http://www.minthegap.com/2007/10/28/is-god-your-atm-machine/ Standing in the Gap in a Society that's Warring with God. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:19:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: MInTheGap http://www.minthegap.com/2007/10/28/is-god-your-atm-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-77825 MInTheGap Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:15:07 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/10/28/is-god-your-atm-machine/#comment-77825 I have a feeling that this generation will learn to be personal with God because we'll have to. It's either that, or there'll be a great revival. I have a feeling that this generation will learn to be personal with God because we’ll have to. It’s either that, or there’ll be a great revival.

]]> By: bonnie http://www.minthegap.com/2007/10/28/is-god-your-atm-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-77760 bonnie Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:29:22 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/10/28/is-god-your-atm-machine/#comment-77760 Read Left to Tell. It's about a woman who hides in a half bathroom for three months while the Rwanda genocide is happening on the other side of the drywall. She knows God in a different way than most of us do, and you have to conclude that she knows what she's talking about because it is *her relationship* with God. Who can discount that? Read Left to Tell. It’s about a woman who hides in a half bathroom for three months while the Rwanda genocide is happening on the other side of the drywall. She knows God in a different way than most of us do, and you have to conclude that she knows what she’s talking about because it is *her relationship* with God. Who can discount that?

]]> By: Mary http://www.minthegap.com/2007/10/28/is-god-your-atm-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-77685 Mary Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:15:12 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/10/28/is-god-your-atm-machine/#comment-77685 Pretty sobering. We just have it too good to know how much we need God in our lives. I don't want that to be true! Pretty sobering. We just have it too good to know how much we need God in our lives. I don’t want that to be true!

]]> By: MInTheGap http://www.minthegap.com/2007/10/28/is-god-your-atm-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-77677 MInTheGap Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:05:08 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/10/28/is-god-your-atm-machine/#comment-77677 That's part of the reason that I think that America is not going to be the same as it is much longer. Globally-- the Word of God is going out in power. Our missionary to Ukraine was at our church and house yesterday and he said that there are more Christian missionaries from other countries going to other countries than coming from the U.S.. America is not God's chosen people, even though we tend to think that we are. That’s part of the reason that I think that America is not going to be the same as it is much longer. Globally– the Word of God is going out in power. Our missionary to Ukraine was at our church and house yesterday and he said that there are more Christian missionaries from other countries going to other countries than coming from the U.S.. America is not God’s chosen people, even though we tend to think that we are.

]]> By: Mary http://www.minthegap.com/2007/10/28/is-god-your-atm-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-77658 Mary Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:57:13 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/10/28/is-god-your-atm-machine/#comment-77658 I've also heard Him likened to a gum ball machine that when given quarters will pop out the blessings. It all boils down to "bargaining" and who are we to presume to bargain with our maker? Do we really know how good we have it? Even the very poorest of us have more than many in third world countries. We have family, freedom and friends, not to mention a Father with our best (maybe not materially, but spiritually) in mind. Eternity with Him. What's this life going to do to us, really, with that kind of perspective? And it's definitely easier to believe this, type it and nod my head at it, than to actively live it through out the discouragements, etc, that line my journey...but in moments of true clarity, its simplicity is both comforting and humbling. I’ve also heard Him likened to a gum ball machine that when given quarters will pop out the blessings. It all boils down to “bargaining” and who are we to presume to bargain with our maker?

Do we really know how good we have it? Even the very poorest of us have more than many in third world countries. We have family, freedom and friends, not to mention a Father with our best (maybe not materially, but spiritually) in mind. Eternity with Him. What’s this life going to do to us, really, with that kind of perspective?

And it’s definitely easier to believe this, type it and nod my head at it, than to actively live it through out the discouragements, etc, that line my journey…but in moments of true clarity, its simplicity is both comforting and humbling.

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