Reflective Essay On Waiting On God

In today’s world people make a common mistake by making comparisons with the Bible and Aesop’s Fables. In the Bible it is important to which is emphasized more, law or grace. It is just as important to do the same in Aesop’s Fables. Very often a mistake is easily made in reading Jesus’s Parables. Understanding the emphasis of law and grace in both the Bible and Aesop’s Fables and realizing mistakes we make with reading Jesus’s parables can help with reading the parables

Dreams concerning the foreknowledge of future events has been recorded throughout history. These premonitions have predicted events ranging from the Bibles account of Joseph interpreting the Pharaoh of Egypt’s dream. To the ancient dream worker Artemidorous claim that a dream of sleeping with one’s own mother predicted the death of the dreamer. To the more recent historical account of a student at John F. Kennedy’s University having a series of dreams that provided images of the perfect new location of a future art building (Krippner, Bogzaran, & Carvalho, 2002).

In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh suffers through several nightmares in which Enkidu insists are nothing bad. Later, Enkidu also succumbs to terrible nightmares after falling ill. He dreams about the underworld and its appalling, evil essence. This, in turn, makes Gilgamesh uneasy and actually provokes him to obtain immortality in the first place. On the other hand, in the Hebrew Bible, Jacob - grandson of Abraham and son of Isaac and Rebecca - dreams that the Lord’s messengers were ascending and descending a stairway between Heaven and Earth. In this dream, the Lord approaches Jacob and tells him that the land in which he is standing will be his and his offspring’s. After being told that the Lord will be with him as he travels back home, Jacob woke up and named the land in which he slept Bethel. Jacob vowed to acknowledge the Lord as his own God as long

I’ve had dreams too. Some were of no consequence. Others were powerful and prophetic. I love that You will sometimes speak to me or guide me with a dream. I find immense comfort in knowing Your Spirit reaches me in the depths of my sleeping soul. There is no place I can go where You can’t find me.

One Sunday morning, a man in the congregation said he had a word from God for me. I was skeptical, but agreed to hear it. I do not remember it word for word, but basically he said... “ I see you standing and your feet are in cement buckets. This is not a bad thing, but a good thing. You are fixed in Him. Although the storm has blown, you have stood. You have been in a season of training which is coming to an end. You are entering a new season. There is one area in your heart – painful area – God is moving on your behalf. You will not even recognize your life in six months. I see a piano in your

God is everywhere, God watches and cares for you and is something different to everyone. To me, God is a higher power that is always there to comfort you and forgives you no matter what. God watches over you, protects you, and cares for you. Whenever I am either confused or in need of some advice, I know that God is always there to help me. Additionally, the images and ideas that I have about God are that God is in everything. He is in the plants and nature’s beauty, and in dogs and other living things. I know I see God in things when I need the advice. For example, when I have a hard day and I come home and my dog is excited to see me, I see that God is watching out for me and wants me to realize that someone or something is always excited to see me. It helps me see the glass half full instead of half empty. Lastly, some significant events that have shaped my view of God and who he is to me are hiking and school. Whenever I go hiking and see the beauty around me that God has created in this world, I change my view on him and realize the beauty God creates. Additionally, when I go to school my image of God changes too. In class, whenever other people bring up their perspectives of God and where they see him, I think back to my image of God and how what someone said affects my image or changes it. Overall, God is a provider and someone who watches over me through nature and other living things.

After reading chapter 10 of Soul Feast, I thought to myself what could be my rule of life? Where do I need support in my daily walk with Christ? What is it in my life that needs work and could be spiritually damaging, if not dealt with? Where do I need to be held accountable? After asking myself these series of questions, it is almost as if God spoke aloud to me. You are very Judge mental it is ugly and not of God. I said well there it is.

When researched, the metaphor reveals further the intensity of the voice of the Lord, stating, “The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars, Yes, the Lord splinters the cedars of Lebanon. He makes them also skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox,” (v.5-6). The cedars of Lebanon are acclaimed for their thick trunks that produce quality wood. Rarely would a storm pass that could fell even a branch of one of these trees, however, the author presents the voice of the Lord, were it a storm, would splinter them. Lebanon and Sirion were the two highest mountains in the Palestine area (Psalm 29: The Pulpit Commentary).

They tend to trigger a forgotten memory that makes it seem like it is telling the future but it is actually just connecting the dots that the dreamer did not completely remember. Scientists have not been able to find a real reason as to why we lose so much of our memory regarding our dreams within five minutes. Five minutes after one dream around fifty percent of the memory of the dream is gone and ten minutes after the dream a little under one hundred percent is gone (Nichols 1). Belief about dreams are not only a current generational conception, there has also been traces found in the Bible. God uses many different strategies to reveal direction or signs to His children, dreaming is just another avenue He can use to show something. In the Bible there were several stories explaining how God gave prophets or disciples dreams to advise them to do or not to do something that may be approaching them in their future. The prophets that were open to God and His knowledge were those who most often had dreams to lead them, so much of history was provided and threaded through dreams to prophecy. Dreams can relate quite a bit to what and how Christians are meant to listen and hear from God. The dream "realm" or life can be a way of learning from God and His plan for us. Interpreting or explaining dreams are very similar to not being able to explain or express our ideas or feelings. It is and always

I am going to start off by saying I do not believe nor deny the existence of God, or any Gods at that. I am agnostic – someone who does not have faith or disbelief in God; a fact-based way of thinking. I am agnostic because I believe in physical evidence and facts. I do not deny that there is a higher being, but I cannot say I believe in it either. To boil it down to the main reason, there is just not enough evidence to prove it one way or another.

Evaluate: Relate the effects of the event on yourself and others involved; describe emotions or images the experience evoked; identify the “heart of the matter”—what issue or question is raised/is at stake for you?

Summarize “Spirituality is linked to dream recall frequency, and spiritual practices might be helpful for coping with nightmares. It would be very interesting to study dreaming in persons undergoing intense spiritual training to determine, on the one hand, whether there is a beneficial effect of spiritual dreams on well-being and spirituality and, on the other hand, whether spiritual training affects dream content.”(Schredl, Stumbrys and Erlacher)

The word grace can mean different things to different people. Both in a religious sense and a secular sense. In a religious sense, the term grace of God can mean many things for different cultures. My understanding of it is that the grace of God is Gods bringing of benevolence into the world. Gods grace is that of a supernatural sense of altruism, but this grace extends way past simple kindness, it is an account of Gods power and a overall staple of Gods sovereignty. This sense of grace can also step over into everyday life with people. Like socila grace or grace of motion from an athlete or simply someone being epathetic to another human

Just beautiful. Simply to be awaken by a somewhat weird dream that leads you to a Bible verse. In my quest to understand it, I read the Book of the Bible that came into my spirit, which led me to several footnotes references and to one of the most beautiful Psalms written.

I 'd tried so hard to hold back the tears that now trickled down my cheeks. "At least give me a sign you 're watching over her," I begged. "How about a beautiful white feather--any size will do." Careful not to wipe my eyes with my dirty gardening hands I swiped my cheeks with my shirt sleeves. Plucking the last pebble from the garden, I sprinkled the beans from their packet on the perfectly smoothed soil. Suddenly a feather floated down in front of my face, landing next to my hand.