Today,
reply is that mankind’s need for
fellowship and ongoing relationship with divinity through prayer and
confession of sin is more correct and necessary than self-reflection.
Many men seek to escape having to face divine judgment because the
tribunals of GOD must be complete, exacting, impartial, and
incontrovertible; and outcomes can not be influenced or manipulated
by created beings and living creatures. Because the goals of
self-evaluation and seeking to judge oneself often focus on a desired
outcome of self-approval, bias, prejudice, and subjective assessments
of behaviors and goals repeatedly appear that skewer and disqualify
the results that emerge by carnal soul-searching. Subtlety (barely
visible differences; hidden meanings and values) may be ignored and
given far less weight than is appropriate. Pursuing a mature
relationship with divinity (e.g., the Father; the Good Shepherd; the
Judge; the Son; the Redeemer; the Savior) requires taking
accountability, communicating in prayer, commitment, discernment,
focus, humility, integrity, obedience, responding to guidance, and
willingness to apprehend divine expressions of joy, meaning, purpose,
and value. It is written: Romans 8: 14-17, King James Version
(KJV): 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the
sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again
to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,
Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit,
that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs;
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer
with him, that we may be also glorified together. The fighter
in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion &
Spirituality who used the ID “Regwash” (Level 7 with 131,994
points) posted the following:
Might
critical self reflection be just as good as confessing sins to Jesus
or whatever?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage
under the elements of the world: But when the fulness of the time
was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the
law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive
the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth
the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
(Galatians 4: 3-6, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Multiple Relationships With GOD (06/16/2020); Chances
To Determine Outcomes (06/07/2020); Knowing The True Messiah
(05/31/2020); A Habitation of Spirit (04/05/2020); The Purpose Of
Worship (10//10/2019); Let Us Reason Together (08/07/2019); Reasoning
Together With GOD? (03/11/2019)
“Regwash”,
it is not only important to Christians that we acknowledge the
authority, power, and sovereignty of GOD, there also must be an
affirmation of his goodness, grace, mercy, and righteousness. Those
who are willing to receive the guidance and instruction that all
things that have existence and that have life were created and put
forth by divine fullness (i.e., divinity; the Godhead; the Father,
the Son, the Holy Spirit) also are challenged to understand that GOD
is not an abstraction, a mechanical device, or another phenomena that
occurs by chance within the natural world. To have a full and
correct consciousness of divinity requires there be sacred
knowledge that comes through regular contact, ongoing
exchange, and meaningful interaction with GOD whose process and
substance are immortal, incorruptible, invisible spirit. Self
reflection is a product of such finite human tools as intellect,
introspection, logic, philosophy, carnal reason, and science. The
flesh is subject to the operations of sin that may dominate appetite
(e.g., hunger, thirst, sexual cravings), sensation (e.g., hearing,
seeing, tasting, touching), emotion/mind (e.g., anger, fear, recall),
and self-will (willpower). At Creation mankind was endowed with life
essence (breath; spirit; utterance; word) from the makeup of
divinity. Similarly, through Jesus Christ, mankind is to receive a
fresh endowment of the inseparable aspects of divinity. Included are
balance, faith, holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness
without sameness, personhood, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
Relationships allow affection, communication, discovery, gradual
growth, learning, practice, and unselfish service. Relationships
with divinity fosters and thrives by acknowledgments of error,
forgiveness, sacred law, divine proclamations, promises, eternal
purpose, repentance, suffering, and expressions of the sovereign will
of GOD received as rebirth and the divine nature. Consider again the
following that uses language from the Bible, and a selection from the
music ministry of Steve Amerson:
(1.)
Jeremiah 9: 23-24, King James Version (KJV): 23 Thus saith the
LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his
wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not
the rich man glory in his riches: 24 But let him that
glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I
am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness,
judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things
I delight, saith the LORD.
(2.)
1st Peter 2: 1-3, KJV: 1 Wherefore laying aside all
malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil
speakings, 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word,
that ye may grow thereby: 3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is
gracious.
(3.)
Ephesians 1: 3-11, KJV: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 According as he
hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we
should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having
predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to
himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise
of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the
beloved. 7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 8 Wherein
he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; 9 Having made
known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure
which he hath purposed in himself: 10 That in the dispensation of
the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in
Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in
him: 11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being
predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things
after the counsel of his own will:
(4.)
Ephesians 1: 17-23, KJV: 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your
understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of
his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in
the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his
power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty
power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the
dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly
places, 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might,
and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world,
but also in that which is to come: 22 And hath put all things
under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things
to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth
all in all.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (5.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5frx0hqWVqw.) Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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