"If God is for us who can be against us."
One of the hardest parts of this statement is grasping the truth that God is for us. It is easy to think of the might of an all powerful God who can do what he pleases.
If God is for us he can surely help us at any moment. The difficult part is often accepting that God is for us.
We often doubt his goodness toward us. It is easy in life. Many things go wrong and we cannot clearly see what God is doing.
The issue is often how close we are to everything. We are in the moment and cannot see past today or tomorrow. We cannot see that the suffering today might have some good over the years to come.
Often we doubt God because we cannot see how he can possibly use things for good. We need to live with faith.
Over time we often get some of the answers for why things happened or hints. But often we will never know. If God showed us everything we would not need to live by faith.
We live by faith day by day. When we are weak we are strong. We are strong in our weakness because we rely on God.
When we feel strong we have a tendency to not rely on God. In those moments we are truly weak.
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Sunday, June 15, 2014
Friday, June 7, 2013
True Christian Liberty
Christian liberty is an interesting concept. It creates a lot of suspicion whenever it is mentioned. It seems clear that Paul teaches that Christians have the liberty to have differences with each other on non essential issues.
Why does such a concept face such strong resistance?
The reality is that Christian liberty faces resistance because there are many who wish to abuse it. For example Christian liberty turns into sexual liberty - clearly this is an abuse of the concept.
How can a person maintain the concept of Christian Liberty without endangering oneself to grave error? I think it is simply the we must always seek to understand and learn and sit under the teaching of the bible.
You will always see two sorts of impulses among "Christians." The one impulse is to sit under the teaching of scripture. The other impulse is to stand over the scriptures and figure out what is actually true in the scriptures.
It seems pretty clear which impulse is correct. If Jesus is who he says he is and has done what he has claimed to have done how can you stand over his teaching.
It is a very interesting state that many people do not reject the existance of God and yet they wish to tell God he is wrong about issues.
It is difficult to understand the impulse it seems to verge nearly on the absurd to say that an all powerful and all knowing God exists and I will tell him he is mistaken on life issues.
Why does such a concept face such strong resistance?
The reality is that Christian liberty faces resistance because there are many who wish to abuse it. For example Christian liberty turns into sexual liberty - clearly this is an abuse of the concept.
How can a person maintain the concept of Christian Liberty without endangering oneself to grave error? I think it is simply the we must always seek to understand and learn and sit under the teaching of the bible.
You will always see two sorts of impulses among "Christians." The one impulse is to sit under the teaching of scripture. The other impulse is to stand over the scriptures and figure out what is actually true in the scriptures.
It seems pretty clear which impulse is correct. If Jesus is who he says he is and has done what he has claimed to have done how can you stand over his teaching.
It is a very interesting state that many people do not reject the existance of God and yet they wish to tell God he is wrong about issues.
It is difficult to understand the impulse it seems to verge nearly on the absurd to say that an all powerful and all knowing God exists and I will tell him he is mistaken on life issues.
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