Blog Book Discussions for Week Two. Read or thoroughly review CHAPTERS THREE and FOUR then answer the questions that follow this paragraph. Remember to add your basic bio information every time you comment: First name, age decade, married or single. If at any time, your answer is too vulnerable for you to want to identify yourself, just go with age decade and married or single status. Those facts themselves bring insight to your answers.
1. Based on Chapter Three, what tends to be your own "Prominent False Positive"?
2. What is the challenge stated at the very end of Chapter Three?
3. Based on Chapter Four, what Biblical figure (or statement about him/her) resonated with you most and why?
That's it for this week! Remember, you have until next Monday to answer your questions.
born 1950's, married.
ReplyDelete1. Based on Chapter Three, what tends to be your own "Prominent False Positive"? With some parallels to Beth's history (which is why I think I love her studies so much!) my prominent false positive is the insatiable need for love and affirmation by the men in my life (boyfriends when young, Father long deceased) as to determine my value, beauty, worth etc. Sadly, this created a pattern in my life of choosing men who did not do this (unhealthy themselves). This then would substantiate the inner lie that I truly was of no value. OUCH! This is self-sabotage being lived out. OUCH! But Praise HIM who has revealed such crookedness as HE alone straightens me! God has brought me so very far!!!
2. What is the challenge stated at the very end of Chapter Three? "...to let the healthy, utterly whole, and completely secure part [in Him] of us increasingly overtake our earthen vessels until it drives out every [crooked] emotion, reaction, and relationship [mine].
This makes me think of the Holy Spirit! God in us! Last week I read in 1 John 4:4 "...because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world." Now I praise God that this is referring to HIM being greater than satan--but HE is also greater than the crookedness in me! HE is greater than the unhealthy parts of me! And HE, alone, knows how to fix it! Beth says, "Jesus is not unhealthy. Not codependent with us (pg 42). AMEN!
This makes me think of us as a "fixed container;" a fixed container of our inner self and all our "stuff" in different compartments. Since it is a "fixed space" if one section increases, others decrease. Thus, if the fruit of the Spirit, such as "joy" increases then the size of the box with despair decreases!!! (Isaiah 61:3). Our LORD is busy increasing those things of HIM and decreasing those things not of HIM.
3. Based on Chapter Four, what Biblical figure (or statement about him/her) resonated with you most and why? Paul, pg 57. "The beauty of Paul wasn't in his super humanity, but his unwillingness to let his weaknesses, feelings, and fears override his faith. Like us the fiercest enemy he had to fight in the fulfillment of his destiny was himself." This is how I feel too!
1. Based on Chapter Three, what tends to be your own "Prominent False Positive"? If I were the perfect size I would be more secure.
ReplyDelete2. What is the challenge stated at the very end of Chapter Three? To let the healthy, utterly whole and completely secure part of us increasingly overtake our earthen vessels until it drives our every emotion, reaction and relationship. We should allow God's truth to eclipse every fasle positive and let our eyes spring open to the treasure we have, there in His glorious reflection we'll also see the treasure we are.
3. Based on Chapter Four, what Biblical figure (or statement about him/her) resonated with you most and why? In regards to Saul/David. "We're not jealous of people in whom we see nothing admirable. In fact, it is the fear that they have something we don't that makes us most insecure. Why do I act like Saul when I want to act like David?