JOHN 16:9 "THE WORLD'S SIN IS THAT IT REFUSES TO BELIEVE IN ME." SAID JESUS. ALL OTHER SINS ARE BORN OF THAT ONE ROOT. MANKIND HAS BELIEVED THE SATANIC LIE THAT THEY ARE ABLE ON THEIR OWN TO TRY AND SUCEED AT ATTAINING THEIR OWN SALVATION, COMFORT AND PEACE. NOTHING COULD BE FARTHER FROM THE TRUTH. THE MIND OF MAN IS INCAPABLE OF KNOWING OR DISCOVERING ALL THAT THE MIND OF GOD CONTAINS CONCERNING HIS LOVE FOR HUMANITY. FOR, GOD LOVED THE WORLD SO THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON TO THE END THAT ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIM WILL NOT KNOW ETERNAL DAMNATION, BUT WILL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH HIM. HUMANITY, ON THE WHOLE HAS BELIEVED THE DEMONIC LIE THAT THEY DO NOT NEED GOD, OR THAT THEY NEED MORE THAN OD HAS PROVIDED TO EXPERIENCE TRUE FLOURISHING AS HUMAN BEINGS. HUMANITY WAS CREATED TO LIVE BY AND LIVE IN THE LIFE GOD PROVIDED. WE ARE HIS CREATIONS. WE ARE NOT SUFFICIENT IN OURSELVES TO THINK OF AS ANYTHING HAVING COME FROM OURSELVES. OUR SUFFICIENCY IN LIFE COMES TO US IN JE...
GOD'S TIMING We develop "timelines" that we reason are appropriate for how and when God should act in our circumstances. We forget that we are not God and that He alone IS. We want God to anoint our five-year-plan because we believe we have figured out what needs to happen and how it will work and what the results will look like. We forget that we don't even know what tomorrow will bring. He alone does and has made provision in it for us. God speaks to us through His Word by the Holy Spirit. We can receive His promise believing the promise because of Who the Promiser is. Then, sadly too often, we try, using finite human reasoning, to determine how we should interpret God's promises based on what we want and how we want it. We want a road map that we can follow without having to really check back with Him when God gives us Himself. He wants us to trust Him, not because we seem to have clarity at the moment, but because He is God and He loves us. Abram had been pr...