More of the Word that is! It's really awesome at dividing the soul and spirit (Hebrews 4:12) and bringing great definition and clarity to our obscured thinking. Yesterday was an interesting, yet eye opening day for me. We found out some news that someone that we had been praying for went to be with Jesus. That she is with Jesus is an amazing thing, it's just hard for the ones who are left here on earth to process the whys and grief. Anyways, this spurred on the investigation of a question that had already been weighing on my heart per my last post. Is my perspective of good the same as God's perspective of good?
Out of obedience to the Holy Spirit, whom we will be discussing here shortly, I put off all distraction yesterday, the whole day until I went to our worship night at church and just started to search God's Word. I looked up every scripture that had the word good in it! I wanted to see what God defined as good and I found the answer to my question. My perspective of good is not the same as His. I know that's hard to hear, but God's Word is truth, not what I've been taught second hand or what I have caused myself to believe.
Out of the 36 scriptures that I read, there was a common theme and no where in there did it say healing my body, keeping me from adversity, while I still believe His Word says that we can have healing, it doesn't necessarily go hand in hand with His definition of goodness. No where in those scriptures did it talk about my comfort. The common theme is written commandments from Him. Things that we should be doing or being for Him. Selflessness, laying down our agenda for Him is what His definition of good is. Dying to ourselves is His definition of good.
I had a chance to talk with my spiritual father yesterday, totally by chance ( I think not;-), a man that has helped raise me in the ways of God for about 25 years and he had a lot of insight for me. The gift on his life, like mine, is perspective and exhortation so he can really get through this thick skull of mine! He said something to me that really hit home and was hard to hear, so brace yourselves :-). He said, " I am starting to believe that God is not as interested in our comfort as He is in our conforming." Good word! All of the scriptures that I read were not about bringing me comfort, they were about conforming to what God has said. What He commands. Now here's where the problem starts for us.
The enemy is so subtle and so sly that over the years of us walking with God and being exposed to a certain religion, a certain way of teaching, a certain way of viewing God, he has helped us create a false image of God. Here's how I know this, because if we are in the Word and it contradicts and confuses that which we have been taught then we are wrong! The Word of God is the only thing in front of us that it is true and if what is in us doesn't line up with that, well, you get the point.
We have got to reteach ourselves what the real image of God is so that we can become like Him and line up with His definition of good! And the only way we are going to be able to do this is by accessing the Holy Spirit, the Helper, that Jesus, when He left this earth, left us to help us.
John 14:25 + 26, " (Jesus talking)All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, WILL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS and will remind you of everything I have said to you."
See, here's the issue, Jesus has already come, did what He was supposed to do and now is seated at the right hand of the Father. The Holy Spirit is who He left to "teach us all things". The Holy Spirit is where we can access the signs and wonders, the miracles that we all need so desperately to see. The apostles, Jesus' disciples, were seeing these things after Jesus was gone, because they accessed the Holy Spirit. I can't type fast enough because there is so much more to this, but that's enough for today. I am still digesting all of it myself.
God is a good God and He has blessed us with many good things. But when we find ourselves in a storm, we have to truly understand what Romans 8:28 is saying to us or we will not ever break through the adversity and see what God is really trying to do. He is working in us for HIS GOOD PLEASURE...not ours (Philippians 2:13). I really believe we will conform to His idea of goodness if we submit to His process and really see the true image of Him.
So much more to come...
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