6113	Forums / Main Forum / Re: Denomination are you?	on: August 21, 2008, 04:52:14 PM
Quote from: billbennett on August 21, 2008, 12:47:04 PM Tom (MBG), That was a great post. For me, baptism was very meaningful, because it did signify the change that was going on in my life. I had trusted Christ a couple weeks prior, and God was already working in my life in some very tangible ways. His forgiveness and grace was so real! You are right that God's work in our lives is not finished at the time we first come to know Christ, but as you described is a process. We grow in grace and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. We are to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. It is living in this relationship with Christ, abiding in Him as a branch in the vine, that allows us to bear spiritual fruit acceptable to Him. Bill     Yes, its always good to read your post, Bill. We should be thankful that we have the Lord of the universe promising to listen to our prayers. And we have been shown that He is good even when we struggle with a trial or sin, that seems to bring us down and cause us to walk with the weight of all of the inward griefs. But He has given us His word and promised to speak to us in His language. We have been justified by faith, fully made righteous by His work, and we are enabled to walk in His love for the rest of our days, that is having a  taste of His goodness, or His sincerity in answering our every failure. He sincerely loves us in reminding us as He meets us in every disabled learned disposition of doubt. And even tho we feel disconnected in this world, where people have departed from listening to Him, yet we know that we are not left to experience the same temptations to be hard toward Him. We have been given Christ, in such a personal way, that we know the place of being sincere to Him. And since He does not judge us as if we are questioning His being our present help in time of need, then our desire to be sincere to Him, is only as we are being enabled to understand His greatest understanding of our weakness that we know this connection to be the only real sincere place ,where our weakness is lost in His love. We grow weak in order to experience His strength, and when we have found that place of rest, then we are aware that He is all we need.