{"id":7605,"date":"2021-09-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=7605"},"modified":"2021-09-05T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T14:49:07","slug":"changing-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/changing-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Your Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"Changing Your Life! 9\/08\/21\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=8zfvq-10d11e2-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=auto&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;O God, give me purity \u2013 but not yet.&#8221;  <\/em><\/strong><strong>This is how the young Augustine prayed as he resisted his mother Monica and her Christian witness.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day in his garden, Augustine had one of the most famous self-confrontations in history. &#8220;Suddenly I heard a voice from some nearby house, a boy&#8217;s voice or a girl&#8217;s voice, I do not know.\u00a0<strong>But it was a sort of sing-song voice, repeated again and again,\u00a0<em>\u2018Tolle lege, tolle lege\u2019  \u2018Take and read, take and read.\u2019\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI ceased weeping, and immediately began to search my mind most carefully as to whether children were accustomed to chant these words in any kind of game, and I could not remember that I had ever heard such a thing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDamming back the flood of my tears, I arose, interpreting the incident as quite certainly a divine command to open my book of Scripture, and read the passage at which I should open.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Augustine took up the Bible and opened it to Romans 13:13\u2026..<em>&#8220;Let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and&nbsp;jealousy, but put on Christ.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The life of Augustine was changed and with it the course of world history.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>How many roads did Augustine follow before he became SAINT Augustine?&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How has something that YOU have read in YOUR life changed the direction of YOUR life and the lives of those around YOU?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WORK FOR GOD!&nbsp;&nbsp;THE RETIREMENT BENEFITS ARE AWESOME AND EVERLASTING!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>YOU can help me to Work for God!  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