Every waking day begins with the evidence assumed to be true about love and the accompanying woes of life, only then to find the next day holds a new set of circumstances that now require their own interpretation. sw
As believers in Jesus as our savior, how true to OUR emotions are we?
Those same emotions we also claim escort us from one set of circumstances to the next in our daily lives?
If you're still with me in this thought, when it's suggested below "Don't fall", what have you read? Does the image of a undefined weight come to mind? Maybe as if a weight that can cause your knee's to buckle if it's carried too long?
It's never inferred that man will NOT encounter temptation as if it were a weight, no instead the word of God suggest that this person can find relief from this weight!
1 Cor 10:12-13
So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.
But when you are tempted , he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.
How often DO we allow ourselves to be trapped by not only our own emotions, but also tempted by the emotions of others?
In order to hear the true "Rest" in what's being said, the first thing the hearer NEEDS to truly understand is the word, "Brother"
Gal 6:1-2
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently.
But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted . Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
NIV
Matt 4:1
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.
NIV
How can Jesus touch the essence of our human weakness if we assume that we as 2/3 mere mortals are not also tempted by the same devil Jesus was?
And since the same sun that shown when Jesus was here also shines today, how different the following words when we think upon ourselves?
How can we also be partakers in a divine nature if we only see ourselves as if AWAY and at a distance?
Isa 26:9-10
My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you.
When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
Though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness;
even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of the LORD
NIV
Ps 119:28
My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.
NIV
What course of action does an enemy held in "Common" take while being compelled in this robbery as if after the very "Essence" of everything which compels OUR soul(s) to then act?
Is this one enemy in common only after the net result of our actions or is this enemy after what causes our emotions to run away with our souls?
Who's spirit has performed falsely and whose spirit have we followed as though our father? sw
Just how strong and potent is the truth in your life? Is it more powerful than the commonality and influence of our bodily glands?
Is life only about training our Hormones or mastering a specific PH chemical balance in our bodies?
Such a realm where the likes of psychology would rather you were "Trained" to respond?
Trained to respond in such a way that only their accept-able written code and recorded methods seem to be the overshadowing influence that also "Works"?
Please don't hear what I'm NOT saying, because there is a place for secular (worldly) psychology.
That place is wherever the absence of Christ is and that only long enough in order to sustain a person's physical body until the point in time where "Truth" can enter their lives and address the root of the "REAL" problem.
Please hear me when I say, "I have NO PROBLEM with sedating or medicating someone in order to keep them from harming themselves or others" just as long as Truth is given the opportunity to also do a GOOD work in their mind as well.
Rom 12:2
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.
NIV
Brethren acting out of the purest sense of love and loyalty to one and the same Father of us all and only because we have fulfilled the duty of all that we've believed to be "True".
The thought of living vicariously through another is NOT some vague notion. God desires to LIVE through as many as will believe that He too maintains this desire to do so, yet what would that also require?
Possibly getting to "Know" Him"?
Not that I expect that everyone will like me or enjoy what I do say, but if you don't at least listen to me how will you know whether of NOT you also like the person presenting as if for your own consideration (judgment)?.
Many will suggest that God hears them and there would be absolutely nothing wrong with that thought, but let me ask you this, how many personalities do suppose would call You a friend for any length of time if you were the ONLY the only one being heard?
Jesus try's to tell us when it's recorded, "Jesus wept" or "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful" as does the apostle Paul. They try to tell us that there is more to love than many are "Willing" to look into as if a pair of eyes.
2 Cor 7:8-11
Though I did regret it — I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while— yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance.
For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us.
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done.
NIV
Comfortable "Now" and comfortable for eternity obviously interpret differently, yet it's always in the revealing of the truth when True comfort comes along as if the suit it's being asked to wear.
Are you truly a fish out of water because you've decided to jump into the boat or one that's been caught and cast upon the shore for dinner?
The Lord that is Good set the life of Esau before our eyes so that we wouldn't take lightly the divine nature of such a great salvation as our inheritance.
Too much emphasis often gets placed ONLY upon the acceptance of the Father, whereas the adopted son must also ACCEPT the father as He is so that He too might fulfill the obligation as if the Father.
Be careful when you pass judgement not only as though a son who desires acceptance, but also for the sake of what the one True Father has determined a true friend is and does.
Heb 12:14-16
Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy ; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.
See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.
NIV
You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own. NIV
Since you call on a Father who judges each man's work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear.
NIV
There's a reason the church of today looks to distance itself from the likes of the church of Corinth more often depicted in holy writ, yet the truth be known the greatest lesson for the church today could more than probably be found in the letters written concerning the behavior of the church that was in "Corinth".
It's never only been about the fruit. I don't know about you but I've eaten some beautiful fruit in my life that was either sour or bland!
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