As you look back on your life, you can see that this dividing line is not stationary and that it has moved position through different phases of your life. At some points you have been very mindful of God in your decision making and possibly in others you've been not so mindful. Why we have a dividing line at all? If God is inclined to get involved in matters as light as snow and vapor, why we banish Him from our everyday decisions?
Thursday, December 2, 2010
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Somewhere in your life you have a dividing line. One one side of this line you make decisions in harmony with your relationship with God. And on the other side you make decisions without consideration of this relationship. This isn't to say that your decisions are un-Godly but rather that these decisions are based on logic, conventional wisdom, societal preference or simply learned behavior. The dividing line simply helps us visualize that such a division exists and allows us to examine our actions.
As you look back on your life, you can see that this dividing line is not stationary and that it has moved position through different phases of your life. At some points you have been very mindful of God in your decision making and possibly in others you've been not so mindful. Why we have a dividing line at all? If God is inclined to get involved in matters as light as snow and vapor, why we banish Him from our everyday decisions?
However, the problem we each face is our desire for God to be absolute. In the spectrum of possible and definitive, we hold that God is definitive and without any degree of confusion. We know this not so much because it is specified in scripture but rather because it is innate. As human beings, we have an inclination that God is absolute and thus we seek a definitive relationship with Him that is free from doubt. But when we look to scripture to represent God we find variance. Ranging from different translations to different interpretations over time, scripture is never held to be universally understood or agreed upon (despite many people being convinced that their interpretation is true).
As you look back on your life, you can see that this dividing line is not stationary and that it has moved position through different phases of your life. At some points you have been very mindful of God in your decision making and possibly in others you've been not so mindful. Why we have a dividing line at all? If God is inclined to get involved in matters as light as snow and vapor, why we banish Him from our everyday decisions?
However, the problem we each face is our desire for God to be absolute. In the spectrum of possible and definitive, we hold that God is definitive and without any degree of confusion. We know this not so much because it is specified in scripture but rather because it is innate. As human beings, we have an inclination that God is absolute and thus we seek a definitive relationship with Him that is free from doubt. But when we look to scripture to represent God we find variance. Ranging from different translations to different interpretations over time, scripture is never held to be universally understood or agreed upon (despite many people being convinced that their interpretation is true).
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