(Sorry for my delinquency in posting. I've been in a Souper Sunday Coma for the last 3 days.. And I'm just "waking up, not out of the woods" yet. Souper Sunday is tomorrow.. so in this "calm before the storm".. I'm trying to get some things done that I've been slacking on..)
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not promoting situational ethics.. per se.. But I've always been fascinated that it's not good to smuggle drugs and people into countries, but it is good to smuggle Bibles.. That speeding is generally frowned upon by cops, unless you have an injured person in the car or a woman in labor.. and that killing is bad: God actually calls it murder, but in the old testament he commanded that certain people groups be "wiped out" (a.k.a. killed).. As black and white as we'd like the world to be, I have to conclude there's a whole lot more shades of grey..
So this quote reminds me to go back to the Book, and seek to understand more God's character. To make it a priority to "walk in step with the Spirit".. To remember it's not about a list of "do's and do not's", it's not about legalism, but God want's our hearts..To know that Jeremiah captures it well, when he says in chapter 17..
5 This is what the LORD says:
“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,
who depends on flesh for his strength
and whose heart turns away from the LORD.
6 He will be like a bush in the wastelands;
he will not see prosperity when it comes.
He will dwell in the parched places of the desert,
in a salt land where no one lives.
who depends on flesh for his strength
and whose heart turns away from the LORD.
6 He will be like a bush in the wastelands;
he will not see prosperity when it comes.
He will dwell in the parched places of the desert,
in a salt land where no one lives.
7 “But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
whose confidence is in him.
8 He will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.”
whose confidence is in him.
8 He will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.”
9 The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?
10 “I the LORD search the heart
and examine the mind,
to reward a man according to his conduct,
according to what his deeds deserve.”
and examine the mind,
to reward a man according to his conduct,
according to what his deeds deserve.”
Soli Deo Gloria
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