Wednesday, March 6, 2013

"Needing God More"

"My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD." (Psalms 26:12) Prior to getting the feeling of completeness, there must first be something commonly referred to as "becoming undone"; it's taken quite a process to get to where you have gotten, and trying to get that mess unwoven is nothing we can do, nor should we even attempt to; however, there are plenty of philosophical thinkers out there that think otherwise. It's like, "What came first, the chicken or the egg?"; it was the chicken stupid!!! (Genesis 1:20-22) We were all born in sin, and we were born with a sinful nature; whether we might have been treated bad, or had been raised poorly is irrelevant to the problem of sin being in our lives; it's there because we born into and live in a fallen world. (Genesis 3:22-24) What we need to do, is to come "just as we are" to the Lord, and then let Him make us whole: He alone is the solution to the mess in our lives; and it is He alone that is able undo all that we have done! Why then, after being made whole by Jesus, would we need to try and discover the source of our misadventure? The source is sin; something that Jesus came and died for, and something that He has taken care of; trying to blame our condition upon somebody else, has no real good result, other than giving us an excuse for the way we have become; which is actually the opposite of the way we are to be fixed! Once we understand this, and we make it the rule of our hearts, we can come to the place that I believe David is speaking of; it's a place where you know what you are, what it takes to make you complete, and what it takes to remain there..."Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart." (Proverbs 3:3) "Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation." (Psalms 111:1) "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." (Colossians 3:1-3) "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." (Philippians 4:8)

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