Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Day 244 - Should I Know Good?


Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - # 280
         
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Some things in life we can handle.  Some very easily.

Michael gives us a glimpse at one thing for sure we CANNOT handle.  Then he gives us God’s choice we can make that gives us victory.

Look at the “spoil” of that victory…  Wow.  Beautiful!



DAY 244
Should I Know Good?
“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus answered, “No one is good—except God alone. --Luke 18:19

Eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was prohibited, and that prohibition is still in effect. We are not to eat from it, for to the extent that we know good, we will also know evil. We eat from the tree for the appeal that we will be like God. However, our problem is that when we set out to know and practice good, we know evil, and we do not do the good that we wish; instead we do the evil. In short, we cannot handle the knowledge that comes from this tree. However, if we are intent on knowing good without the pitfalls of evil, then we can set our hearts to know God. God is good. God is love. The knowledge and experience of Him is freeing.

Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point      Green – IT, Incredible Truth        
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches           Pink – PV, Priceless Victory



I find it truly interesting after 35+ years of ministry that far too many Saints get wrapped up in the peripheral rather than the main thing in Christianity.  I always appreciated Michael’s illustration of a wheel…with the hub (the main thing) and the spokes (the peripheral).  Of course, the spiritual leaders and the “church” are the ones that lead the people away from the hub and get in a dither over the spokes.

Every teaching of God comes down to something uncomplicated, and basic, like: “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 22:37-40).  Whew…uncomplicated.

Setting our hearts to KNOW God and EXPERIENCE Him is everything, and IS FREEING!  Well, amen.


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