Month: May 2013

when life guards are rescuing someone, they are trained to spend no more than 5 seconds talking to them to calm them down.  if they don’t respond to that, they knock them out.  why?

you can’t save somebody who is trying to save themselves…

Most people believe if something is  “positive”, then it is of God.

However, God has revealed in scripture that He does not work that way.

But God has revealed those things to us by His Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God. 1Cor 2:10

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17

Whatever is not of faith is sin Romans 14:23

Without faith, it is impossible to please God Heb 11:6

And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord. Numbers 26:61

We can’t just willy nilly do whatever feels good to us and call it “from God” or “God honoring”.  God has revealed His nature to us as well as the pattern of how He goes about things, so that we can recognized His “fingerprint” and know if something is from Him.

We also know what is definitely NOT from God based on how God defines sin and what God says that He hates.  God is not wishy washy, nor is He an emotional wreck.  He is consistent and does not contradict Himself in any way.

He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Heb 13:8

For I am the Lord, I change not Malachi 3:6

If He says He is pleased by something then we can trust that, if He says He is displeased by something, then we can trust that as well.