Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 181
Michael’s book is
available through:
Abiding Life Ministries
International
Littleton, Colorado
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It
seems man has a passion for the “School of Hard Knocks.” Not wanting to listen to others who have trod
the path they are about to head down, man goes about to gain his own
experiences…learning experiences…taking some “hard knocks” along the way. Well, that’s OK…”everybody learns that way”…they
say!
Michael
shows us Jesus did things differently…
DAY 82
Experience
Even if I have truly erred, my error lodges
with me. --Job 19:4
Our
people must also learn to engage in good deeds to meet pressing needs, so that
they will not be unfruitful. –Titus 3:14
A friend
may show you a shortcut that saves several hours of walking, and you may prove
your friend correct once you take his suggestion and walk the new way. If at a
later time this same friend tells you that the path is destroyed and you are to
go another way, should not your history with the friend dictate that you listen
and follow through with his altered advice? Learning from his experience would
help you not experience the wrong path yourself.
Experience is way overrated! Look at what experiencing is teaching our society! It is teaching
that immorality can kill, set the wrong course for a young life, and set in
motion addictions that can be fought for years. Experiencing is showing couples
the damage done to marriages through bitterness, self-centeredness, and
unfaithfulness.
Jesus did not need to experience every
dull thing;
He learned by a more excellent way, the way of faith. He became
a man, lived as a man, and experienced living by every word that proceeded from
His Father. Experience is good, but the experience we need is from listening to God, our Father.
What Jesus teaches in Matthew 5 - 7 is not just a revelation from heaven that
facts of earth do not confirm. All
of life proves what He taught, for His teaching is written into creation
itself. Therefore, we do not need more experience in going the opposite
way, not only breaking the commands of the teaching but breaking ourselves
against them. There is nothing new to be learned through experience; all guiding principles have been
learned and written down in Scripture, in the visible and invisible world, and
within man.
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
I guess this boils down to us deciding whether we want to try FAITH or
EXPERIENCE. As Michael points out, “the
experience we need is from listening to God, our Father.”
I love Michael’s last words: “There is nothing new to be learned through
experience; all guiding principles have been learned and written down in
Scripture, in the visible and invisible world, and within man.” Well, amen.
One of my most favorite hobbies is to compile what I like to call “Life
Verses.” Those words from a page of
Scripture that bring Life to my life!
When I read the words of John 6:63, (Jesus speaking) “It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak
unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life”…I
have to declare these words bring such joy unspeakable to me. I want LIFE in my life! I want to have all that God can give me from
His Holy Scriptures. I have had all the “hard
knocks” that I can stand!
And you know what is
CRAZY?!? Three verses later, “many of
His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him.” Why?
Verse 64 tells us, “But there are some of you
that BELIEVE not. For Jesus knew
from the beginning who they were that BELIEVED not, and who should betray Him.”
(capital letters for
emphasis)
Do we as man “believe
not,” and must try things out (experience things) instead of trusting God’s
words first?
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