Comments on: Are You Doing Too Much? http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2009/06/doing-too-much/ reb•e•lu•tion (reb’el lu shen) n. a teenage rebellion against low expectations Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:52:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Nathan http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2009/06/doing-too-much/#comment-497719 Nathan Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:46:50 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/?p=2115#comment-497719 You are right Ashley. THanks a bunch You are right Ashley. THanks a bunch

]]> By: Ashley http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2009/06/doing-too-much/#comment-495013 Ashley Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:28:36 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/?p=2115#comment-495013 I think the difference between doing hard things and doing to much is the peace God gives you. Whenever I try running my own life, heaping on the work and being super girl, I feel anxious, easily shaken, and don't have peace over the things I do. When I wait for God's perfect timing to do what He intended for me to do all along, I don't feel the same pull at my heart. Yes, at times I will be anxious, but the peace of God, that transcends all understanding, will surround me and comfort me. I think the difference between doing hard things and doing to much is the peace God gives you. Whenever I try running my own life, heaping on the work and being super girl, I feel anxious, easily shaken, and don’t have peace over the things I do. When I wait for God’s perfect timing to do what He intended for me to do all along, I don’t feel the same pull at my heart. Yes, at times I will be anxious, but the peace of God, that transcends all understanding, will surround me and comfort me.

]]> By: Ramon Hiponia http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2009/06/doing-too-much/#comment-491690 Ramon Hiponia Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:40:36 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/?p=2115#comment-491690 I'm also a youth that has struggled from laziness, procrastination, slugishness and the like. I believe C.J Mahaney is right. Is your busyness being fruitful? If doing much things is hindering you from your first love, i believe that's not fruitful. However, "do hard things" are doing things that still keeps your gazed and stunned at the glory of God. It's doing things that still keep yours focused at God. That then isn't waste, but fruitful. I’m also a youth that has struggled from laziness, procrastination, slugishness and the like. I believe C.J Mahaney is right. Is your busyness being fruitful? If doing much things is hindering you from your first love, i believe that’s not fruitful. However, “do hard things” are doing things that still keeps your gazed and stunned at the glory of God. It’s doing things that still keep yours focused at God. That then isn’t waste, but fruitful.

]]> By: Hannah http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2009/06/doing-too-much/#comment-491090 Hannah Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:52:10 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/?p=2115#comment-491090 alex and brett - im not quite a teenager yet but ive begun to read your book - do hard things - its like your sitting next to me just talking its not all fancy like, one day i helped run a campaign and this is how it went ... its just we helped with a campaign and it was a great experience! you guys are great role models for young people like me, who want to make the world a better place but just didnt know where to start. now i do. just be me and stand up for what i believe in and -do hard things- in the name of the lord. deep down i knew and i think everyone knows what we have to do... we just have to do the hard thing and figure out what it is...not just sit around and wait for it to land in your lap. thanks for being an inspiration to all teens. (or soon to be teens) alex and brett -
im not quite a teenager yet but ive begun to read your book - do hard things - its like your sitting next to me just talking its not all fancy like, one day i helped run a campaign and this is how it went … its just we helped with a campaign and it was a great experience! you guys are great role models for young people like me, who want to make the world a better place but just didnt know where to start. now i do. just be me and stand up for what i believe in and -do hard things- in the name of the lord. deep down i knew and i think everyone knows what we have to do… we just have to do the hard thing and figure out what it is…not just sit around and wait for it to land in your lap. thanks for being an inspiration to all teens. (or soon to be teens)

]]> By: Nathan http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2009/06/doing-too-much/#comment-490849 Nathan Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:51:10 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/?p=2115#comment-490849 " If you are faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things,"(ruffly stated from God's word). Getting things done is good, doing to much is unhealthy, doing to little is unhealthy; my goal is to find the medium, not to much, not to little, anyone got some helpful resources to share? ” If you are faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things,”(ruffly stated from God’s word). Getting things done is good, doing to much is unhealthy, doing to little is unhealthy; my goal is to find the medium, not to much, not to little, anyone got some helpful resources to share?

]]> By: Alex McCrady http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2009/06/doing-too-much/#comment-490546 Alex McCrady Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:28:03 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/?p=2115#comment-490546 If someone is going to have a "busy" day but none of it is pleasing to god then they are pretty much doing nothing the will help them in the long run. If church is something that comes second to a hobby then where is your prority? If someone is going to have a “busy” day but none of it is pleasing to god then they are pretty much doing nothing the will help them in the long run. If church is something that comes second to a hobby then where is your prority?

]]> By: Alesia http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2009/06/doing-too-much/#comment-489758 Alesia Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:47:24 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/?p=2115#comment-489758 Ok I see what you mean Heather, and when you explain it like that, it makes alot of sense. I'm glad I finaly have my answer now, after 10 years, I guess it was kinda obviouse all along though. Blessings Alesia Ok I see what you mean Heather, and when you explain it like that, it makes alot of sense.

I’m glad I finaly have my answer now, after 10 years, I guess it was kinda obviouse all along though.

Blessings
Alesia

]]> By: Joseph Goodwin http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2009/06/doing-too-much/#comment-489117 Joseph Goodwin Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:24:53 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/?p=2115#comment-489117 Wow! This has been the same thing I have been struggling with for the last two years: this insane drive to accomplih stuff because I feel that God will love me more if I do more for His glory-but then I get so busy, it's no longer for His glory. I think that might be an indicator of when we are busy and not doing the right thing; when God's glory becomes secondary and when our implied duties as Christians, young adults, and children become neglected to any degree. Wow! This has been the same thing I have been struggling with for the last two years: this insane drive to accomplih stuff because I feel that God will love me more if I do more for His glory-but then I get so busy, it’s no longer for His glory. I think that might be an indicator of when we are busy and not doing the right thing; when God’s glory becomes secondary and when our implied duties as Christians, young adults, and children become neglected to any degree.

]]> By: Heather http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2009/06/doing-too-much/#comment-489107 Heather Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:23:57 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/?p=2115#comment-489107 Alesia, I think the answer to your question can be simply found when one searches the right verses. Know right off, I am a firm believer in Election; I believe it is the bases of everything we, as Christians, believe. And I believe in it is the answer to your question. But to start. First off, no one is deserving Heaven, we ALL deserve hell, and it is only through God's grace at all that some of us will go to Heaven. So, if someone was not to know about God and went to hell, it is what they deserve (cruel as that sounds in the human mind) However, there is no one on earth who does not know, in some way, about God. I know this from the Bible; though I do not know were the verse is found right off. But it says God has revealed Himself in creation so that man is without excuse. A man cannot die, stand before God, and say, "I should go to Heaven, I did not know about You and therefore did not have a chance!" God has shown Himself in creation. Also, all men known what is right and wrong, they can deny it till they are blue in the face, but they know. That said, all men know there is a God, God is not going to leave them without His common grace which falls on both the good and the evil. However, there is also election one must consider, and I think it is important in this. God chooses those who will come to Him, and they WILL come. "All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out," John 6:37. If God has chosen those people for salvation they will be saved, and no amount of lacking Bibles, or missionaries, or anything is going to stop that. In the same way, if God has not chosen them, no amount of preaching or Bibles will save them. This also brings up another point, or so I think. Why haven't these people heard about God? Are not we commanded to tell them? Well then, why aren't we? Maybe, if we all put our minds to it, we could do some hard, fruitful things, and find a way to spread the Word to them, or help those who are. Anyways, back to the topic at hand. I think there is a difference between doing Hard things and just being busy. Like one of you commented, the presit and Levite were busy, but in the wrong way. We can be too "busy" to help those in need, but that does not mean it is the right kind of busy. After all, Jesus was never too busy to help those who needed Him. He never once said to someone who was sick, "Go away now, I am preaching can't you see? And this is far more important then helping you!" I think we need to look at our motives. Why are we too busy? Do we say we are too busy with all our other activities to help do dishes, or help our family. Are we too busy with friends so we will not have to spend time with siblings? With all things we need to look at why we are doing it, look and see were our hearts is. Are we doing it for God or for us? Alesia,
I think the answer to your question can be simply found when one searches the right verses. Know right off, I am a firm believer in Election; I believe it is the bases of everything we, as Christians, believe. And I believe in it is the answer to your question.
But to start. First off, no one is deserving Heaven, we ALL deserve hell, and it is only through God’s grace at all that some of us will go to Heaven. So, if someone was not to know about God and went to hell, it is what they deserve (cruel as that sounds in the human mind) However, there is no one on earth who does not know, in some way, about God. I know this from the Bible; though I do not know were the verse is found right off. But it says God has revealed Himself in creation so that man is without excuse.
A man cannot die, stand before God, and say, “I should go to Heaven, I did not know about You and therefore did not have a chance!” God has shown Himself in creation. Also, all men known what is right and wrong, they can deny it till they are blue in the face, but they know.
That said, all men know there is a God, God is not going to leave them without His common grace which falls on both the good and the evil.
However, there is also election one must consider, and I think it is important in this. God chooses those who will come to Him, and they WILL come. “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out,” John 6:37.
If God has chosen those people for salvation they will be saved, and no amount of lacking Bibles, or missionaries, or anything is going to stop that. In the same way, if God has not chosen them, no amount of preaching or Bibles will save them.
This also brings up another point, or so I think. Why haven’t these people heard about God? Are not we commanded to tell them? Well then, why aren’t we? Maybe, if we all put our minds to it, we could do some hard, fruitful things, and find a way to spread the Word to them, or help those who are.
Anyways, back to the topic at hand. I think there is a difference between doing Hard things and just being busy. Like one of you commented, the presit and Levite were busy, but in the wrong way.
We can be too “busy” to help those in need, but that does not mean it is the right kind of busy. After all, Jesus was never too busy to help those who needed Him. He never once said to someone who was sick, “Go away now, I am preaching can’t you see? And this is far more important then helping you!”
I think we need to look at our motives. Why are we too busy? Do we say we are too busy with all our other activities to help do dishes, or help our family. Are we too busy with friends so we will not have to spend time with siblings? With all things we need to look at why we are doing it, look and see were our hearts is. Are we doing it for God or for us?

]]> By: Theo K http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2009/06/doing-too-much/#comment-489068 Theo K Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:32:26 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/?p=2115#comment-489068 Alesia et all, You seem to imply that "a man can live a very clean and pure life", so that God would accept him. The truth is we are all 'by nature children of wrath' (Ephesians 2:3). This means that, apart from Christ, *everything* that we do causes God's wrath. So I say that it is more than obvious that *no one* can live a pure life before God, as long as he is away from Jesus Christ. All men are sinners and fall short of the glory God (Romans 3:23). Regardless of whether they ever heard of the gospel or not. They are still sinners, as they break the law of their concsience. So I would think that in the Bible we find a clear answer to your question. Everyone deserves God's wrath. And thus, all people of all times, cultures etc etc (of an age of accountabilty) will go to hell because of their sins, unless they repent and receive Jesus Christ as their Lord, Saviour and Treasure. And if this upsets you, there is something you (and we all) can do. Lose our lives for Christ and His gospel. Because faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. God bless, Theo Alesia et all,

You seem to imply that “a man can live a very clean and pure life”, so that God would accept him. The truth is we are all ‘by nature children of wrath’ (Ephesians 2:3). This means that, apart from Christ, *everything* that we do causes God’s wrath. So I say that it is more than obvious that *no one* can live a pure life before God, as long as he is away from Jesus Christ. All men are sinners and fall short of the glory God (Romans 3:23). Regardless of whether they ever heard of the gospel or not. They are still sinners, as they break the law of their concsience.
So I would think that in the Bible we find a clear answer to your question. Everyone deserves God’s wrath. And thus, all people of all times, cultures etc etc (of an age of accountabilty) will go to hell because of their sins, unless they repent and receive Jesus Christ as their Lord, Saviour and Treasure.
And if this upsets you, there is something you (and we all) can do. Lose our lives for Christ and His gospel. Because faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

God bless,
Theo

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