The Standard
Question: what do you get if you don't have a standard for what to believe and how to behave?
Answer: Whatever you want.
I must talk to a hundred people a week. Okay, maybe not quite that many, but quite a few. There is a pattern that I see over and over and over. We totally ignore God's Word, and then we wonder what in the world happened when things go horribly wrong!
"I know the Bible says not to be unequally yoked, but..."
"I know God said to not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, but.."
"I know God says to go to my brother, but..."
We ignore His principles and follow our own way. Even worse, sometimes we twist and distort the Bible to make it conveniently say something that endorses our own sinful desire! We look and look until we find a story, a hard-to-understand verse, anything. And then.. Aha! There we have it.. all the "proof" we need that God approves!
It seems to me that it would be much less difficult, much less agonizing, much less foolish, to just lay ourselves before Him and His blessed Word and in humble obedience say, "not my will but Thine be done."
2 Timothy 3:16 (NKJV)
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
Answer: Whatever you want.
I must talk to a hundred people a week. Okay, maybe not quite that many, but quite a few. There is a pattern that I see over and over and over. We totally ignore God's Word, and then we wonder what in the world happened when things go horribly wrong!
"I know the Bible says not to be unequally yoked, but..."
"I know God said to not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, but.."
"I know God says to go to my brother, but..."
We ignore His principles and follow our own way. Even worse, sometimes we twist and distort the Bible to make it conveniently say something that endorses our own sinful desire! We look and look until we find a story, a hard-to-understand verse, anything. And then.. Aha! There we have it.. all the "proof" we need that God approves!
It seems to me that it would be much less difficult, much less agonizing, much less foolish, to just lay ourselves before Him and His blessed Word and in humble obedience say, "not my will but Thine be done."
2 Timothy 3:16 (NKJV)
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
Yes, if we, each of us, just took the Bible honestly and sincerely, it would join us together rather than dividing us up into so many different and different-believing groups.
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AMEN!
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