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NASB | Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. |
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Bible Question:
Thank you, Doc for your thoughts and your explanation. Never did I thought the way you did. Perhaps I had been wrong all this while for in the past 2 over years, I never did once try to understand myself. It was always the Word and after I went thru Romans thru Hebrews, I believed that my old self should have died with Christ and my new is being crafted by our Lord in his own ways and time. That's how I see it in my growth. He had always eqquipped me with brothers and sisters like yourself to guide me. I have always relied on Him to move me and I can feel that I am moving. I do confess however that it makes me arrogant and prideful at times and God do rebuke with scriptures to tow me back to line. It is ironic that before my rebirth, I was always fighting the Word, looking for contradictions and doubts with my carnal mind but then God convicted me via the Word and now I am fighting for the Word telling others not to use their carnal mind to understand God's will which includes understanding ourselves and allowing the Holy Spirit to guide us or take charge as we go along. Just seek, obey and receive, I believe. Isaiah 55:8-9 8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. 9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Thus, if I try to understand ourselves, I might understand wrongly.After all I am still human and might follow on the wrong path cos I cannot determine if what my thoughts is God's will. I am still very much how people would say "heart hardened" about how I feel. I would need time to digest what you wrote and am very thankful for your thoughts. Perhaps, if its not too much trouble, I would appreciate your prayer to allow me to see the light. God Bless ps. Incidently, I do read the postings almost everyday. Just that I felt a bit inadequate to contribute. |
Bible Answer: Dear ngkh, We all struggle with pride. But we have the Holy Spirit to help us. It helps to remember that any victory we have in life belongs to the Lord. In fact, a pastor once told me when I was rejoicing in victory over sin, "Do not rejoice over victory, instead be grateful for forgiveness." It took me a while to understand. One focuses on me, the other focuses on God. Please do not misunderstand what I have said, sir. I am not talking about being self absorbed. I am talking about wisdom from the Word. Recently I read where a theologian wrote, "Man was never created to be autonomous, but dependent on God." Every moment, every day, in every thought, in every deed, we must be dependent on our Lord. It is not about a lot of things to do or not do, it about a relationship, a deeply loving relationship. Also, keep in mind that God has created us with faculties. Those include spiritual, cognitive, and emotive faculties. We are to worship Him in ALL of these things. Do not imagine that it is improper to reason and think deeply. On the contrary, we were created to think. (False religions try to argue otherwise, but Christianity does not do this!) However, our minds are to be renewed by the Word. Reason, think deeply, meditate, contemplate, consider, deliberate, discuss, contend, delight, desire, and love the Word. (Sorry, poor English, but perhaps you get my point.) All that we are has be effected by sin, and we must always remember that... but all that we are is also what God has created. Again, I emphasize this important fact: If God has taken the time to speak to us about a thing, than we must and should take time to study it. But our study should always be in the light of the Word, depending on God's Holy Spirit to guide our understanding. Also, don't hesitate to contribute on the forum, sir. Frankly, we need your thoughts and insights. We are a people dominated by Euro-American thinking. Sometimes we mistake this for Scriptural truth. I have found that often my foreign friends see things that we miss. God has given us these great gifts to help us: Regeneration, the Word, the Holy Spirit, and one another. We need ALL of these to walk as we should. In Him, Doc |