Damnation Defined?

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I want to perform well for God.

I have a deep desire to please Him.

I never want to be a disappointment to Him, so I repent and seek grow daily.

I want to be a praiseworthy woman, of and for my Creator.

I have a deep desire to do what is right.

It has occurred to me...when we take our nature, and put it for God, we are our best, and we are not wrong! When we take our nature and make something or someone else our God there is always sorrow and pain, and more often than not, we do not feel right.

Patient, mild, humble, reverent.

Strong, bold, steady, certain.

Commanding, alluring, charismatic, assertive.

Bright, kind, inspiring, joyful.

These are all great ways to be! And God teaches us how to use them for our greatest good. When we go our own way, when we try our own thing (not away from social systems, but away from the patterns of God taught by Jesus Christ) these are destructive ways to be. We become the oppressed, the oppressor, the seducer, the unreliable. We decided to be our own God, and didn't know we also became our own devil.

You can be patient, mild, humble and reverent, for God.

Strong, bold, steady and certain, for God.

Commanding, alluring, charismatic and assertive, for God.

Bright, kind, inspiring and joyful, for God.

But take any one of those traits and have it be for man... any man...anything made by man...I believe that may be the definition of damnation in practice.

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