Scripture
“But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets. No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit. And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.” I Corinthians 2:10-12 (NLT)
Observation
Many of the things that Christians hold to be true are perceived as foolishness to the unbeliever. When we begin pursuing God’s ways rather than our own ways we develop a new lense in which we view the world. This lense is what enables us to make choices that are beneficial for others and not for our own self benefit.
Is there human compassion in the absence of God? Yes, non-believers have charities and out reaches aimed at relieving the world of suffering. Who are they giving the glory to? Themselves, humanity, not to God. They are working with the understanding that humans can save themselves.
When the believer reaches out to the world we don’t do it for ourselves. We do it for the Glory of God. God has placed within us his Spirit that manifests through good works. We know that humans are not inherently reconciled to God and that without Christ we exist in a fallen state. When we accept Christ we are freed from the world’s spirit that says we are in a sense our own gods, able to decide our own destiny.
Application
It’s freeing to know that we don’t depend on ourselves and that we are taken care of by the one true God. I personally have many more questions than answers, I am not the author of my own life. I know that my life is in Gods hands, and because I am reconciled to God he has placed within me his Spirit. As a vessel of God I am freed from the responsibility of doing things with my own power.
So, why don’t I move mountains? Why don’t I turn pennies into Gold and live a lavish life if all things are possible through him who is within me?
The power to move mountains and to perform magnificent works is not our power, it’s Gods. Nothing can be done that is not first ordered by the Father. I’m now responsible to seek God in all things so that his work is completed through my hands. Seek God Daily.
…I’ve Got a Long Way to go…
Prayer
God, open my eyes so that I may see your will in my life. Help me cast aside my own self will and replace it with yours.
“Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a loyal spirit within me.
Do not banish me from your presence,
and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.”Psalms 51:10-11 (NLT)
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