This could also be said about anyone you also place absolute trust in. What is absolute trust though?
Some might suggest as the ultimate expression of trust, "I would trust this or that "Person" with my life" yet in the big (true) picture how could you prove that statement of resolve to be true in the mind of someone you're hoping to covey such a notion?
Many might suggest that taking a fatal bullet for someone else is the greatest expression of "Love" someone could show forth, yet is that truly a sacrifice for the sake of Love without the other person knowing beyond doubt "Why" (what compelled you) you were willing to begin with?
When can anybody know to the point of death to trust another's vow of love to be True? How is it possible to prove love or the simple vow made to be true and faithful "To the End"?
Especially in light of a world full of historically proven liars?
A world where total dependency upon the potential for true relationships has been shredded by divorce, abandonment and adultery? Undermined by networks of neatly compartmentalized little "White lies" that have been birthed from even smaller fibs?
Supposedly neatly stashed secrets and partial truths which invite doubt.
Doubts assumed hidden well enough to where the results then manifest as insult which then challenge our otherwise intuitive ability to discern ones sincere (true) integral character.
A world where we're surrounded by breached contracts of all sorts, marital affairs, emotional robbery (cheating) while dating, scheming and chaffing little secrets between friends all of which chisel away at the absolute hope of being able to trust in another while widening the chasm between two souls.
It's easy to speak of (confess) a love for God, yet whose testimony is to be believed especially when it comes to finding yourself "Believable" at all times?
Yes, our dependency as believers is surely founded upon the faithfulness of Christ, yet when we truly acknowledge the transforming work being done within ourselves day by day, only then can we be developed and then incorporated into the person of Christ.
The placed where we find ourselves able to believe that not only our confession actually did reach the ears of God but also the redeeming work beyond that confession being observed. A work which now manifest itself as the direct result of Christ doing that same work within our combined being (spirit-soul-body).
The pure confession filed yet under the label of a, "Faith filled" work in progress because of what Christ leads us towards in His triumphant and righteous procession.
2 Cor 7:9-10
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
NIV
Jesus spoke of His knowing the Father as though "One" yet where or maybe how do we exclude ourselves often times when we reflect on what we truthfully can't see taking place within our personage that's been assigned a name here in the earth?
A name which has been conditioned to respond to the surrounding world?
It's easy to superimpose what we hear or read as if about "Someone else", yet what about when such includes ourselves as if part of that same "One"?
John 5:46-47
If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me . But since you do not believe what he wrote, ----> how are you going to believe what I say?"
NIV
What can one truly know about a person unless they've spent time with them? Meaning more than just sound bites or small traces of kindness sprinkled among a whole "Lot" of ugliness?
Acts 22:17-18
"When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance and saw the Lord speaking. 'Quick!' he said to me. 'Leave Jerusalem immediately, because they will not accept your testimony about me .' NIV
Jesus said of himself and those that are willing to lay down their life and follow Him, "My sheep hear my voice".
How important is the testimony of someone other than your self when trying to define where your priorities and loyalty lies?
It's easy to say "I've obeyed" to then have our own ears receive such a statement with joy, yet how easy is it to hear "You have not obeyed"?
How often do we continually keep putting Christ BACK on the cross in our own lives instead of placing Him at the right hand of God in our understanding? High and exalted and that as our understanding concerning Him that's since become "EFFECTUAL" as He now leads?
Many think that reading about Jesus is the work, yet what we "SEE" being done within and through us should beckon the thought concerning God Glory being witnessed by the world around as if a part of God's New Creation.
Allowing God to teach the more precise version as to "How" all things He's also created actually do put on display His goodness so that men are truly "Without Excuse" in terms of denying having been exposed to the things (creation) God also created?
I think of God's creation as a never ending reminder. All men have the need set before them to choose to participate as created beings. In so much that such things as a blade of grass, a tree or a rock should never put a believer to shame as though found to be found out performing the spirit He's (God) personally chosen be placed within a "Man".
It's easy to laugh at a man made version of the enchanted Forest, yet we'll skim right over the truth that a not only did a mule and a burning bush once spoke to a man, but also that God has made himself know by way of all that he's created. Surely then all creation to include "Man" has a voice, but what does it have to say concerning it's creator?
We easily dismiss as though a mysterious metaphor mined from antiquity that a little bird might carry the spoken words to the King. Today such a suggestive metaphor gets mock when asked "How do you know about a matter", as we respond in jest that "A little bird told me"!
How would discounting the voice of creation as well the creator affect the otherwise potential where someone trying listen and hear (discern) between the voice of the Holy Spirit as if in competition with all the other voices that take delight in broadcasting their message?
Eccl 10:20
Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom,
because a bird of the air may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say.
NIV
Luke 19:39-40
Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
"I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out."
NIV
Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men!
The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead — whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree.
God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."
NIV
What if a person is not physically around (present) so you can get to know them?
We're all looking for reasons why, yet when we "IGNORE" all of the words that trail behind the word "Because" when we do read, in the light of truth "What have we failed to believe"?
Not only do we want to receive Gods grace but many are even more addicted to trying to redefine God's grace and as such that waivers equal the the multitude of opinions available.
The grace of God meets and communes with His children that are also about His business here in the earth.
God causes the rain to fall and the sun to shine on both the unrighteous and the righteous, so in all reality we all enjoy many of the same things while in this world.
What do we do when we don't find the evidence of "Favor" when we ask for proof enough that we might Know Him more than the day before? What have we discovered in terms of "Knowing" God?
Enough that we can at least know beyond doubt that His hand is upon ALL of our affairs here in the earth?
Just how much and how many conclusions reached get laid to the charge of God as if He "Made me do it" when in truth God had no "Direct" influence in the matter outside of creating all the participants?
That to include those willing and those that are NOT willing?
If you believe that God is sovereign as if to say "In absolute control OVER ALL things at all times" that take place here in the earth, then how CAN you find yourself able to disagree with what I write?
If God controls ALL things then stick with your convictions because I would NOT be able to write what I do UNLESS God made me do it?
My point is we have choice and we have a mind and a will, yet how do they get applied within the realm we now find ourselves in?
The governance of the standing principles of the kingdom of God do NOT shift like the sand we stand on. No, the operating principles of the Kingdom of God ALL function harmoniously together.
Just because the breeze blows and moves the leaves that same potential does not also move the rock lying next to the leaf.
Divine operating principles are NEVER in conflict with each other nor are all the attributes of Gods spirit that are always in agreement with each other.
There's more that needs to be preached concerning all the "Why Not's" if we can accept that in Christ it's always "Yes'.
Questions like, "Are you willing Lord? Yet do we hear "Yes"! Are you able Lord? do we hear the "Yes"!
Do I believe Lord?............is there silence or just more doubt and confusion piled on to everything else we don't know or refuse to accept as true about Jesus Our Christ?
2 Cor 1:20-22
For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes " in Christ. And so through him the "Amen " is spoken by us to the glory of God.
Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
NIV
Does the words "Is to come" only suggest "After this world has passed away"? Or does what IS to come include by way of our (one and the same) faith in Him which also includes the things AFTER this world passes away?
Is our faith everyday faith in Christ we're relying on to somehow meet with Gods ability (Power) to raise us from the dead is it not the same faith we are to be exercising today as today is the Day he Lord has made?
Rom 8:13-14
For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. NIV
James 4:1-3
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?
(Stop and camp there for a while and truthfully inquire. I trust that MOST of what said believers fail first to "See" and to then to receive from God as their answer as to the why many of the sol called "WHY NOT's" can be found here)
You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
NIV
Disagree if it suits your justification, yet Truth does not paint with a broad brush
I've never met Ghandi, yet I have read "About" him. I've read of him, yet know little about what compelled him to do the things he did. I can read between the lines or try to, yet is that enough to then know the man and what compelled him?
I've never personally met any president of this great nation, yet I've listened to many speak. I've been "Introduced" to many different people, yet I personally have never manage myself well enough to get to know them beyond a hand shake and peaceable smile.
Once again, what do I know beyond doubt about them?
There are times when certain types of commentary usually only get mentioned with the intent to make us "feel" better about ourselves within our present circumstances, yet how will all such commentary serve us in another day and that of "Eternal" proportions?
Comments such as, "What's done is done" are truly nothing more than a shield or verbal defense against the assumed accusation being presented.
Certain bible translations interpret the word "Satan" as "Accuser" while others will agree and have interpreted the character of satan to mean "Accuser of the brethren".
I personally see such a suggestion easily joining hands with the teaching of the Apostles which states that as brethren, "Our battle is NOT against flesh and blood".
Eph 6:10-18
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers , against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.
In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.
NIV
I would like to pose the question, "Just how often do we find this to be merely meaningless commentary"?
I personally would consider a person who died of thirst a tragedy. The greater tragedy should be the rest of the story which "Goes On" to tell the rest of that persons story as to how they died unaware that an ample water supply was just around the next corner.
There are times when "What we don't know can hurt us".
Such times include the thought(s) concerning the need of a savior are taken too lightly and secondly because of the "Why" believers in Christ should take just as seriously. The truth as it pertains to the "Why"
Is it the simple matter of under estimating the enemy OR is it under estimating our vulnerability because of the fact we are "Known" more thoroughly than we seem to know ourselves?
One of the lies man has believed is that we are all unique.
Surely we're unique in appearance and in the attitude's of our minds as we each taste and sample the things of this world yet how does one process the net results of each day with clarity as though beyond having doubts?
All of the above under the supremacy in knowing, One God, One Spirit, One Christ and One Baptism into which we are all endowed by the same mercy and Grace which then causes us to succeed in the things for which God has sent his word (truth) forth into this earth in order to accomplish such an awesome undertaking which can only find its fulfillment by way the expressions of His WISDOM. Amen.
I believe there is wisdom and then there is 'WISDOM".
God's word does NOT say, "Lean not on your own wisdom" yet instead it says, "Lean not on your own understanding".
Far too often the kind of Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding God refer's to when He's teaching is not the same substance the world uses. More often those three get tossed in one and the same container which usually ends up being that elusive "Box" many are always talking about stepping out of.
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