WATER OF LIFE

A time for Faith
I changed my website domain and name. I thought about blog names and finally came up with ‘Water of Life’ and then I felt it was a sign from God because I was able to get the wateroflife.me domain name (and it is also the name of my new book!). Of course all of the other domain extensions were taken but it just happens that the .me domains were released last summer (June 2008) so there were many good names still left.

So I am reading about the Israelites and how Moses turned over leadership to Joshua, and I felt it resonated with my turning point on my giving up personality type and changing my website. But now I am on the part where GOD ORDERS TOTAL CONQUEST: for the Israelites to completely destroy the all the inhabitants of the land (Canaan) and all their idols and I’m starting to feel convicted that I should stop selling my book, then I get to the part where God says any of the inhabitants that are not wiped out will be barbs in your eyes and thorns in your side. The barbs in my eyes sorta stuck because you don’t hear that as often as thorn in your side. And a book seems more like a barb in the eye than a thorn in the side. So now I’m feeling convicted to delete my book off my computer completely.

So I think that I can stop selling it but to lose all my work is too big a loss and then I start to think about that one guy who kept one piece of plunder that caused the Israelites to lose their second battle in Canaan after crossing the Jordan. So then I’m like, well God, if it’s really want me to do this give me a sign, but then I go back to thinking about Balaam and how God told him not to go to Balak. However, they came back a second time and offered Balaam more money so he asked the Lord again. The Daily Bible says Balaam “put God’s will to the test in hope of personal gain.”

Then I have doubts in my mind when I look back to when I was a teenager. I first accepted Christ at a junior high church retreat in the mountains. When I came home I threw away my whole record collection, even some collector Beatle albums, because it was all secular music. It was only a matter of a year later that my parents got divorced and I fell away from God and got into heavy metal music. Is he trying to tell me to get rid of the stumbling blocks before a bigger trial comes up? Losing that $500 a month from my book is certainly going to add to our financial trials. I trust in GOD THAT IT WILL BE DIFFERENT THIS TIME.

Well I can’t get rid of some of the thorns in my life but God is telling me I can get rid of the barb in my eye that is personality type. I moved my domain to wateroflife.me—which even God blessed because it’s a little tricky programming-wise to do this. But He pointed me to the right webpage explaining how to manually do all the SQL database update queries. After that I deleted all of the personality type related stuff off my website. Then I sent an email to my printer to discontinue my book on personality type. After that I deleted the book off my computer and off my backup hard-drive.

Let me tell you this was not an easy thing to do at all. Not only was it $500 a month of income but it was a year and a half of my life I spent writing that book. But you must understand how the Lord feels:

For my people have done two evil things:
They have abandoned me—
the fountain of living water.
And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns
that can hold no water at all!
(Jer. 2:13)

Instead of trusting in God’s absolute sufficiency we place our trust in man-made systems of psychological methods and personality type that can hold no Water of Life.

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