My Soul Has Become Troubled

My soul has become troubled - In its most meager form compassion hums with hope as possibility. mythoughts, thoughtsofgod, thoughts of God

I am encouraged that, “My soul has become troubled,” is not unique to my self only, voicing some difference alienating me. Trouble is common to all humanity, and in humanity, these words, “My soul has become troubled”, were uttered by Christ.

Biblical Words Related to Prayer

אָמַר, aw-mar', דָּבַר, daw-bar', דָּרַשׁ, daw-rash', פָּלַל, paw-lal', קָרָא, kaw-raw', שָׁאַל, shaw-al', shaw-ale', αἰτέω, ahee-teh'-o, ἐκζητέω, ek-zay-teh'-o, ἐπικαλέω, ep-ee-kal-eh'-om-ahee, ἐρωτάω, er-o-tah'-o, ρέω, ζητω, dzay-teh'-o; λέγω, leg'-o, πρoσεύχoμαι, pros-yoo'-khom-ahee, mythoughts, thoughtsofgod, thoughts of God

Prayer is communication between the soul and what that soul considers divine. For me divinity is found in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, Christianity’s Trinity. To whom the soul prays matters.

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Thoughts of God, Love Mercy – Do Justice – Walk Humbly with God – Love God with all of your heart, all of your soul, all of your mind, and all of your strength – Regard the well being of others as you regard your own well being, mythougths, thoughts of God, thoughtsofgod, thoughtsofgod.com – “8 He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?” In the past, in the present, in the future God requires actions of love to God and to Others, thoughtsofgod.com, David Reese

Love of God and Love of your neighbor form the crux of the covenant God made with Israel through Moses, as well as the church, τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ, those called out of the world, into the kingdom of God.

Nygren’s Agape and Eros: A Transvaluation of Love

it is the Christian conception of fellowship with God that gives the idea of Agape its meaning, mythoughts, thoughts of God, thoughtsofgod, David Reese, Anders Nygren, Nygren, Agape and Eros, Agape, Eros

In Greco-Hellenism the gods do not love man.  In Christianity, not only is God Agape but Agape is His very nature.  In Greco-Roman world the gods do not take part in a fellowship with man, Christianity places fellowship in the middle of the Agape motif.  Finally, Christianity is theocentric while Greek thought is egocentric.