Do You Really "Have To?"

[bbyrd009]

how many times do you say "i have to" or "i gotta" in a day?
How many times do you hear it said?
What is another common way to define this concept, this something that you have to do?

 

[bbyrd009]

Law, right?

 

[aspen]

Expectations are slavery to the will

 

[Miss Hepburn]

how many times do you say "i have to" or "i gotta" in a day?
How many times do you hear it said?
What is another common way to define this concept, this something that you have to do?

It's too personal...it's between me and the bathroom.
Definition...urge, force of nature.

 

[Helen]

It's too personal...it's between me and the bathroom.
Definition...urge, force of nature.

Good one... It annoys my husband when I say.."Yes okay , but first I just have to run to the bathroom. "

 

[Helen]

how many times do you say "i have to" or "i gotta" in a day?
How many times do you hear it said?
What is another common way to define this concept, this something that you have to do?

Actually, except for the incidents in above post...I hardly say it at all.
I remember a couple staying at our house, I 'overhead' one say to the other.. "Well we must first do blah blah...then we have to go to blah blah..."
The other one answered and I have never ever forgotten it...He said..
" No, we do not 'have to' do anything...all we have to do is walk in the Spirit then everything will sort itself out."
I believe God intended me to overheard that, and learn.

As God children we need to get delivered from all the "Ought to's".
The Lord leads His sheep...Satan is a driver.
So...the question is, are we lead, or driven?

 

[Dan57]

how many times do you say "i have to" or "i gotta" in a day?
What is another common way to define this concept, this something that you have to do?

I have to work.... because I gotta eat.
Define this concept? No work, no eat

 

[Butterfly]

I have to work.... because I gotta eat.
Define this concept? No work, no eat

Yes, I can relate to that...... But as I ponder it, I wonder if it is revealing a negative attitude to what i feel ' i have to do ' - in essence i do ' have to work ' and ' I have to support my dad ' but it reveals , perhaps, that i feel forced into doing things against my will......... Is that really a good way to feel about it. If you take the ' have to ' out of the equation .... ' I work so that I can eat ' ' I support my dad because he needs support ' maybe it gives it more purpose and positivity - a means to an end.
......sorry I am waffling because it's made me think !
Butterfly

 

[bbyrd009]

It's too personal...it's between me and the bathroom.
Definition...urge, force of nature.

lol, yes, but this thread is not speaking to your perspective tho; but surely you have a friend whose perspective this speaks to

 

[bbyrd009]

I have to work.... because I gotta eat.
Define this concept? No work, no eat

well so iow God cannot provide for you, as He has promised

 

[Dan57]

well so iow God cannot provide for you, as He has promised

God never promised to pay my grocery bill.. He provides the means, but we must do the work.

 

[bbyrd009]

God never promised to pay my grocery bill

consider the lillies, imo. But of course God will not interfere in your decision should you choose to take the reins i guess

He provides the means, but we must do the work.

so you say, but don't work for food is in There too tho, huh

 

[FHII]

What bugs me is when people say, "You need to.. " when its something they need me to do. I tend to take words very seriously and a word like "need" isn't the same as "should".

 

[Helen]

God never promised to pay my grocery bill.. He provides the means, but we must do the work.

Agree...Faith without legs, goes nowhere.!!

 

[Dan57]

so you say, but don't work for food is in There too tho, huh

I don't recall where that's written? But; "The labourer is worthy of his reward" (1 Timothy 5:18) "But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." (1 Timothy 5:8). "We command and exhort by our LORD Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread." 2 Thessalonians 3:12). and "Let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth." (Ephesians 4:28) These verses seem to indicate that we are expected to work.

 

[bbyrd009]

I don't recall where that's written? But; "The labourer is worthy of his reward" (1 Timothy 5:18) "But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." (1 Timothy 5:8). "We command and exhort by our LORD Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread." 2 Thessalonians 3:12). and "Let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth." (Ephesians 4:28) These verses seem to indicate that we are expected to work.

...but you don't recall where "Don't work for food" is written though, by the same token.

And i might contrast working with getting/having a job, too, i'm certainly not meaning to denigrate working, so much as becoming a slave to a job, perhaps.

11For we hear that there are some among you who walk irresponsibly, not working at all, but interfering with the work of others.u 12Now we command and exhort such people

 

[bbyrd009]

of course also

"go forth and multiply,"
but also
"better to not marry"
so...

 

[lforrest]

of course also

"go forth and multiply,"
but also
"better to not marry"
so...

By their witness about Christ, God makes for himself sons and daughters.

 

[bbyrd009]

By their witness about Christ, God makes for himself sons and daughters.

yes, the same way God might be said to harden Pharaoh's heart, sure.

 

[lforrest]

yes, the same way God might be said to harden Pharaoh's heart, sure.

I see what you mean, it is like the opposite of Pharaoh.