Grace to Love

My Dear Friend, This continues to come to my mind after reading your post and the article, “His Will Isn’t the Point”. http://www.stevenfurtick.com/personal-development/his-will-isnt-the-point/   It reminds me of the popular book that starts out, “It’s not about you”. Both of these I’m afraid are so misleading and disingenuous. Though they may want to lead you to God, they in fact do the opposite.  We cannot separate ourselves from God to find truth. We cannot separate God’s perfection and love into boxes or ideas of understanding and say, “This is what God look’s like”. This is carnal (natural) thinking. As if any of us can separate God out of His desire (will) put that part over here, His love over there, His divine character in another place. If we believe he is Omnipotent, Omnipresent, “All in all”, then we must understand that he is Wholly God. We cannot dissect Him from His Word, and in the Word to get a complete picture. You can’t separate God from His will. That is...

What do we know of men is visible, but how does God (Yahovah) see us?  We are Spirit (Ruwach;Pneuma) - Soul (Nephesh;Psuche) - Body (Soma) - the vessel which house our Soul & Spirit). Until we come to know we are also Spirit, we continue in life in the Flesh (sarx) other wise known as a Carnal man. When we become aware that we are also Spirit, we then realize that we have the Spirit/Breath of God in us. We then understand the Spiritual man.

Who’s Listening to Reason? Have you noticed that those who criticize are usually guilty of the same thing they are critical of? It’s almost like pointing a finger in another direction hoping others will not see who they are. Living in a divided country and a world of the “all knowing opinions on everything”, I expect it from the politically engaged. But as for “Christians” who claim belief in Jesus and the bible, one would expect a different kind of engagement. Does what we say and how we say it really matter? Should those claiming to be “Christians”, take heed to the words that Jesus spoke? I am reminded of words Jesus spoke, “out of the hearts abundance the mouth speaks”. What we say reveals who we are, our character, who we are at heart. I am always concerned when Christians speak hurtful things. I am speaking about the spiritual matters. In October 2011, two “Christian” men wrote an article titled,” The Evangelical Rejection of Reason” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/opi...