Wednesday, May 13, 2015
How God has drawn me to people.
Many years ago I learned how to avoid situations and people who were not interested in promoting christian freedom. I learned this freedom by meditating on the Psalms for many years. My awareness of this freedom began to grow as I repeated back to God in my meditations how He wanted me to think and speak about His grace. The major hurdle that needed to be crossed was how I responded to Him about sin and forgiveness. From this daily practice He took me to places that I can now understand His purpose in it.
Ive come to believe that our problem with understanding how free than gospel is ...is that we take the lesser things and make them the main things. One of these teachings that few fail to apply correctly is the doctrine of forgiveness. It is easy for us in miss applying forgiveness to embace the curse all over again. I learned that there are certian views about forgiveness in which I naturally distaste because Ive learned to push the curse away by Gods confession that He no longer keeps a record of my sin.I cannot go back to trusting in my confession of sin as my self confidence. If my confession could count as a righteous act to gain forgiveness then I would be saying that theres was something in me that was worthy of recieving forgiveness. In this attitude I would be reversing the teaching of the bible.
I became convinced that God led me to hang out with people who were addicted to sin because He was protecting me from religious wolves. The thing that safe about hanging out with real sinners was they believed because of their sin that there was no hope. So my always confessing that God forgets my sin was the same attitude they had about the impossibilty it is to obtain forgiveness through.themselves. I can assure you that we had some great times celebrating this freedom together. Ive learned the secret to being happy. Being draw in community is Gods work and He will never lead us to be with people who have a false self confidence..Ive had so many good times with sinners because of this.
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