Worldly Wisdom, Undersanding, and Counsel
We are pressed, almost smothered with the world's wisdom, understanding, and counsel. If what the world has offered has been so advantageous to us, why have we seen such degradation of marriage, manhood, womanhood, sanctity of life, and abuse against the aged and helpless?
It seems the world's wisdom, understanding, and counsel are blown about by the winds of the culture and who thinks he/she is in control. Being in control, like God, is certainly not a new concept. Adam and Eve practiced the lie and it bought them loss. Losses: in relationships with one another and their children, loss of walking in the cool of the evening with the LORD GOD, loss of the Garden of Eden, loss of peace, loss of comfort, and losses of all that God had planned and purposed for them had they been willing to obey His admonition, "And the Lord commanded the man, saying, 'You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die." Genesis 2:16-17
As Christ followers, we do have a standard, fixed and eternal, "It is the Spirit who give life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life." John 6:63 I love the reminder of the Psalmist 119:167-168, But you are near, O Lord, and all your commandments are true. Long have I known from your testimonies that you have founded them forever." The Life-Giver has spoken, I will choose life!
It seems the world's wisdom, understanding, and counsel are blown about by the winds of the culture and who thinks he/she is in control. Being in control, like God, is certainly not a new concept. Adam and Eve practiced the lie and it bought them loss. Losses: in relationships with one another and their children, loss of walking in the cool of the evening with the LORD GOD, loss of the Garden of Eden, loss of peace, loss of comfort, and losses of all that God had planned and purposed for them had they been willing to obey His admonition, "And the Lord commanded the man, saying, 'You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die." Genesis 2:16-17
As Christ followers, we do have a standard, fixed and eternal, "It is the Spirit who give life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life." John 6:63 I love the reminder of the Psalmist 119:167-168, But you are near, O Lord, and all your commandments are true. Long have I known from your testimonies that you have founded them forever." The Life-Giver has spoken, I will choose life!
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