#gawdisnotaname | itsawonderfilledlife

Posts Tagged ‘#gawdisnotaname’

The Best of March 3-7

Posted in WONDER, tagged #ashe, #coldand, #gawdisnotaname, #thebestof, #thebestofmarch3-7, #whatcanyoubethinkingof, #whatdoyoulikeaboutyou on March 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »

This week the most viewed post was viewed significantly more than the others. I am not sure if it was because so many enjoyed it, or so many were offended by it. If you choose to click on and read, Gawd is not a Name let me first forewarn you …

you might be offended by what I have written,

if you are a follower of Christ.

Let me also say that I do believe that using the name of God, in vain, is a sin, whether the ‘user’ knows it or not.

But, I do believe that most who do use the Lord’s name in vain, do so outside of the family of God, and therefore they have yet to deal with the sin that we were all born with … and that sin from the garden of Eden, needs forgiveness before any other.

Thanks to those who have challenged me. I am a blog writer, not an expert on Christianity, or pretty much anything else. I would be horrified to think that anyone might think my words to be ‘gospel’ …

I am so very much still working it all out … and you, as readers get to read my workings as though this were a reality blog.

Also this week were :

What Do You Like About You
(a challenge to look at the positives when we look in the mirror)

Ashes to Ashes
(thinking about Ash Wednesday)

What can you be Thinking of?
(a second look at Proverbs 31)

Cold and Dark and Dreary
(rain and pain)

Blessings to you this day,
Carole

Read Full Post »

Gawd is not a Name

Posted in WONDER, tagged #everykneewillbow, #gawdisnotaname, #Isaiah44, #ohmygawd, #romans14, J. Kirk Richards on March 4, 2014| 2 Comments »

every+knee+shall+bow

Driving home last week with two teens, who were eager to hear ‘their’ toons, I allowed my inside voice to come out!

A radio contestant was the right caller number, and she was declared the winner.

“Oh gawd!” she shrieked, in full valley girl voice, over and over and over again.

And so the rest of our drive home, I mocked this desperately high-pitched radio winner lady, repeating over and over and over again, “Oh gawd.”

My kids rolled their eyes, they giggled at my dramatic insanity, then they finally begged me to stop (apparently I was stepping on their last nerve … for a change).

My son even told me that saying that was offensive to him. I get that. As a believer in God, to hear “Oh my God” does sometimes feel like a kick in the gut.

God is my Savior.

God is my Father.

God is my strength.

God is my constant.

God is my Redeemer.

To hear His name being used in a derogatory manner is ugly to my ears.

But, what I heard was not someone intentionally cursing my God, they were simply saying something with an exclamation mark at the end. A commonly used phrase to declare excitement, anger, shock or frustration.What this lady was saying was not “oh my God” but “oh my gawd.”

I cannot expect that those who do not share my love for God will hold His name with the same value and honor that I do, any more than I can expect them to act in a manner that follows His word.

I need to view them as those whose eyes have not yet been opened.

I need to pray for them.

For,
one day,
EVERY knee will bow,
and EVERY tongue will acknowledge
God.
Romans 14:11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnDTDLOM0rY

They don’t realize;
they don’t understand,
because their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see,
and their minds, too,
so they cannot understand.
(Isaiah 44:18)

Read Full Post »