Posted on 07/29/2016 6:43:04 PM PDT by kindred
If you understand who really provided you that breakfast, then yes.
I also like your parallel that as by handling real money we recognize counterfeit money, so in the same way by handling God’s Word we recognize the counterfeit. Great analogy.
It is interesting how that is demonstrated right out of the gate in the book of Revelation. After the church joins the Lamb, Jesus, in Heaven, the FIRST event on earth is the appearance of a white horse with a rider who has a crown and a bow (Rev 6:1). Many casual readers think that is Jesus. But Jesus has many crowns and a sword not a bow. Also this horse and rider transforms from white to grey and death and hell. That certainly is not Jesus. Jesus is in Heaven with the Church. The rider on this white horse is none other than the lying man of sin who deceives many into thinking he is Christ which parallels exactly what Jesus warned as the FIRST thing in his prophetic Olivet Discourse (Matt 24:4-5).
As you so rightly point out, we will need more than causal familiarity with the Bible to discern truth from error in these last days.
Ultimately we must understand (as best a mortal can) the Lord Himself. If this reading of the white horse’s rider is accurate, it must portray something less than the Lord. Something that offers to solve all the world’s problems but always seems to be too busy or too grand to call upon the Lord, might fit in this category. And such is the risk of success in the world of itself, even though the blessing of the Lord was necessary to grant that success in the first place. Like manna kept too long and not refreshed it will rot.
An overall attitude of awareness of Jesus might well guide what we pick for breakfast. In many things there are a range of acceptable choices. But there still are things that are de trop.
God nor Jesus makes my actual choice....I am grateful for the ability to buy and grow food. God knows that. But you are ridiculous when you suggest that if you decide to have eggs today instead of cereal that that decision is one you check with God about....I don’t buy it for one single minute
It still does not anywhere suggest that you are with each and every decision you make asking God what your decision should be....will I wear a bow tie? Should I wear brown shoes? To suggest that you actually do such a thing leads me to conclude that you are either a lunatic or an exaggerator
Excuse me? You’re not paying attention as usual. I didn’t really mean to initially copy you because I’ve seen your contrariness. I didn’t say anything to you about “actual choice” or “decisions”.
Often it is a result of a sense of the Lord that you do what you do. It might even be the same things, in some cases, you did before you believed. Or it might be different things.
This might not be on the level of should my shoes be brown, but might be on the level of should they be shocking pink.
Sometimes it takes being a little “contrary” to investigate where a hypothesis can go. As long as it isn’t sat on stubbornly, or used for the purpose of actually leading into sin, why should there be anything wrong with it.
I find a big problem today is that people don’t really understand what their options are. They are Stuck in a Habit and that’s what they do even though something a little different might glorify God even more.
... or even more, what you hope to mean when you wear the shoes (knowing they are now gospel shoes). If you were going to present gospel to people who insisted that the only proper shoes were brown... then you might even pick brown on purpose. Just as one of those “contrary” hypotheses.
You are excused.
You responded to me. I didn’t make you do that.
Or I might not bother with shoes at all
Excellent observation. To the barefoot, I was barefoot.
OK I had to laugh. Hello from over a year later!
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