Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Mere human reasoning

"Dear brothers and sisters, I want you to understand that the gospel message I preach is not based on mere human reasoning." Galatians 1:11

God's economy and values are not based on human understanding or human ways. We fall into dangerous territory when we try to equate our knowledge and understanding to the mind of God and act or speak as though it is.

I love how God demonstrates this concept to Job in the last few chapters of Job. “Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words? Brace yourself like a man, because I have some questions for you, and you must answer them." (Job 38:2, 3 NLT)
Then God tells how the seas know their boundaries because He set them. How light and darkness appear, how he commands the morning to appear and the dawn to rise in the east.  
"But of course you know all this! For you were born before it was all created, and you are so very experienced!" (Job 38:21 NLT)

God continues to expound on his wisdom and creative powers, the very things we then turn around and worship rather than the Creator himself. 

Human reasoning has always been in conflict with God's from the garden of Eden to Abraham forcing God's timing through Hagar to followers of Jesus trying to force him to be their earthly king.
When we can't see beyond our understanding we then try to manipulate God's timing to conform to ours.  The end result will always bring disillusionment and blaming God for supposedly not doing what we thought he should. 

"For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope." (Romans 15:4 BOOKS)

May learn from their lessons and heed the words of the apostle Paul,
"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." (Romans 12:2 BOOKS)

Renewing will come as we replace the old patterns and thoughts with God's as a result of reading his Word and allowing the Holy Spirit to change us from the inside out.

It all comes back to trust and giving up our control for the One who knows the beginning from the end.

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