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purpose of salvation is to bring us to glorify God and enjoy Him
forever. We live in a world were we have many voices pulling us in all
kinds of directions. We are surrounded by the ungodly who are pulling us certain ways. But really the important things are what we desire.
Salvation is really about us and what we think of God.
Its not even
about the wise counsel of men verses the ungodly counsel. It is an
inward reality that our desires are made new. We are people who had
desires for ourselves all our lives and then we received by grace new
desires. It wasn't even about the moral change or the accountability of
men. Remember the reason desires are so important and not counsel of men
is because men are sinners too. Men are going to be helpless too. Men
are going to die. Desires do not die.When we have new desires they
are toward God. God has spoken in His word. Our desires are so dependent upon the spoken word of God that it is impossible to enjoy Him without
His word. The word and the Spirit are the means to approach God. The
desires are the caboose to know God and His word. When we delight in God
we delight in His word.
The only other voices we are hearing are
from ungodly men. There is a spiritual battle going on every moment of
every day. Ungodly men are always crying against the word of God. They
hate God and His word is not alive to them but condemning. They make
plans, the bible calls them plots, schemes, arrogant thinking, hunting
down the helpless etc. These desires are in direct opposition to new
desires of a christian. We hear these messages and then we must test the
spirits to see if they are rite. Remember this is a spiritual battle.These messages are not just an attack against God but they go against our spiritual longings.They
erode our confidence by that ringing message \"you trust in God let God
rescue you.\" That erosion in our desires must be replaced by Gods
spoken word.
We are not just fighting against the sin in others but we
are fighting these voices and attacks against our desires from the
wicked. The more we receive these attacks without discernment the more
coldness we receive.This is a spiritual battle in our minds first
and then goes to our spirits.That is why we must learn how to delight in
God and His word. We must understand that our initial desires are so
flooded with grace that we have freedom in the Spirit stamped in these
desires.These longings are in a war between the word of God and the
ungodly men. Our longings are more than just an emotional exhaustion.
These longings are Spiritual in nature and they are oriented in the Love
of God and who God is. There are some inward battles that are fought
for to inflame these delightful longings but we are dealing with the
relationship the word has to them and men.I can say after years of
meditation that i have learned to discern these attacks by what other
men say to me. I do not think they are aware of these things. But we
live in a world where these spiritual bombs are real.And i have said
many things i should have.
If we want to be happy we must meditate on
Gods word. We must decipher everything we hear through the word. We must
test the spirits because even Christians are sinful and do things to unmotivated us. We must become familiar with grace so that if any other
message is receive we will immediately throw out the false.
When we
ruminate that is we read the word and then we read it again and we study
it and then we think about it. Word is God speaking directly to us
through that word and reminding us of His motives and love for us. These
messages inflame our desires. These reminders ruminated over work with
the Holy Spirit to give us such a heavenly longings that we are very
keen on what a false spirit looks like.
We live in a world where
there is so much counsel. It is full of counsel. Really the only counsel
we can trust ultimately even in christian counsel is the word of God.
The word is a grace oriented message. The word is the means of grace.
Grace is antithetical to the world. Grace is opposite to our natures.
Grace is ultimately understood in the inflamed desires , that delight in
GOD. Ps. 1 and various other PS.
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