Wrong Thinking leads to Wrong Choices

-Charles Schulz

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A certain type or kind of person seems to always find themselves as "victims" even if it is their own choices which get them in trouble or cause them issues.

How can we help them? They do not ask for or want any input on their own decisions. They end up in a life they did not want and they can't change.

In Charles Schulz comic strip the character, Schroeder, has had to put up with the girl, Lucy, forever. She is self-centered, narcissistic, cruel, mean, obsessed, and bent on marrying this boy. 

I am thankful for this certain strip as it blatantly pictures the girl, Lucy, as she really is--even when the character, Schroeder, gently points out that she doesn't have to be that way.

In the end, of course, Lucy, continues to think only her own way--she will never learn.

Meanwhile, in real life, there are real people who are so very like this character. 

Their own choices: life long mistakes, "poor me" attitudes, easily blaming everyone else although everything in their lives have been their own choices. Their friends help them make wrong choices because these same friends are also caught up in wrong thinking.

The only "way out" is to righteously cry out to the LORD God Almighty. 

Your life is slipping away, wasting away, by continuing on your wrong paths. 

Stop listening to the wrong thinking of your friends. 

REAL friends help you to get on the right paths!

Paths can change! Paths are changing every day for those who are willing to trust only in the LORD. 

Lucy's narcissism continues:

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Be True to God's Truth and so Be True to You

Own Yourself

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. 

If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened ─ but no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

Rudyard Kipling

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2 Timothy 4

"I solemnly charge you in the presence 

of God and of Christ Jesus, 

who is to judge the living and the dead, 

and by His appearing and His kingdom:

preach the word; 

be ready in season and out of season; 

reprove, 

rebuke, 

exhort, 

with great patience 

and instruction.

For the time will come 

when they will not endure sound doctrine; 

but wanting to have their ears tickled, 

they will accumulate for themselves 

teachers in accordance to their own desires, 

and will turn away their ears from the truth 

and will turn aside to myths.

But you, 

be sober in all things, 

endure hardship, 

do the work of an evangelist, 

fulfill your ministry."...

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Being Able to See God's Grace

 "I think most people in cults are afraid God will be angry with them if they leave, and punish them.  Never do they see His grace."

-blessings "N.K."

God's Grace:

Titus 2:11-15

..."For the grace of God has appeared, 

bringing salvation to all men, instructing us 

to deny ungodliness and worldly desires 

and to live sensibly, righteously and godly 

in the present age, looking for the blessed hope 

and the appearing of the glory of our great God 

and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us 

to redeem us from every lawless deed, 

and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, 

zealous for good deeds.

These things speak and exhort and reprove with 

all authority. Let no one disregard you."

Titus 3:1-7

"Remind them to be subject to rulers, 

to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for 

every good deed, to malign no one, to be peaceable, 

gentle, showing every consideration for all men.

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, 

deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, 

spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, 

hating one another.

But when the kindness of God our Savior 

and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, 

not on the basis of deeds which we have 

done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, 

by the washing of regeneration and renewing by 

the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly 

through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified 

by His grace we would be made heirs 

according to the hope of eternal life."...

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May you who have been caught in a web of legalisms now see, hear, and know God's truth and His marvelous grace!