PROBLEM: YOUR OWN MIND AND YOUR OWN OBSERVATONS

This Scripture mentions two items of idolatry. The first is your heart, meaning your mind. The second is your powers of observation. Your mind has no capacity for sound reasoning without divine revelation for truth. And if you fish around in your mind, you add to the truth God reveals.

Then, you defile the truth. It’s no longer the truth. Here’s another problem. You filter all your observations and experiences through the preconceived ideas in your worldview. It’s difficult to understand just how effectively your worldview adjusts your perceptions of what you observe or experience to match the expectations of your worldview.

Some people talk about being objective, but they’re deceiving themselves. You can’t be objective. You can’t get outside yourself to be objective. If you think your perceptions are pure, you commit the ontic fallacy. You need Jesus Christ and His Light guiding you in every part of your life. Only through the power of the living Christ can you overcome your inability to see reality as it is.

God reveals reality to you through your observations, and He speaks truth into your mind if you look to Him. However, when you worship human intellect, you’re being unfaithful to God. Of all the idols Christians worship, the worship of the intellect may be the hardest to abandon. If you come to God for wisdom, He will give you wisdom.

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This Scripture mentions two items of idolatry. The first is your heart, meaning your mind. The second is your powers of observation. Your mind has no capacity for sound reasoning without divine revelation for truth. And if you fish around in your mind, you add to the truth God reveals.

Then, you defile the truth. It’s no longer the truth. Here’s another problem. You filter all your observations and experiences through the preconceived ideas in your worldview. It’s difficult to understand just how effectively your worldview adjusts your perceptions of what you observe or experience to match the expectations of your worldview.

Some people talk about being objective, but they’re deceiving themselves. You can’t be objective. You can’t get outside yourself to be objective. If you think your perceptions are pure, you commit the ontic fallacy. You need Jesus Christ and His Light guiding you in every part of your life. Only through the power of the living Christ can you overcome your inability to see reality as it is.

God reveals reality to you through your observations, and He speaks truth into your mind if you look to Him. However, when you worship human intellect, you’re being unfaithful to God. Of all the idols Christians worship, the worship of the intellect may be the hardest to abandon. If you come to God for wisdom, He will give you wisdom.

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INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

God considers His Creation as His wife. He calls you to love Him, trust Him, seek Him, and find Him. God created you to be joined to Him intimately.

He desires to lead you in every thought and emotion. He wants to flow through you in love, joy, and peace. He wants to do His works of righteousness through you as you willingly yield to Him. He wants to lead you, fill you with faith, and allow faith to give you access to His grace. He wants His grace to say His words and do His works through you as you yield the members of your bodies to His righteousness.

Jesus said only the words of the Father. Jesus did only the works of the Father. Every thought, word, and action came from His Father in Heaven.

That’s how it’s supposed to be for you. That union with God is the only place of fulfillment.

As you yield to His righteousness in this way, He transforms you into the image and likeness of Christ. He purifies the Lord Jesus Christ in you. It’s incremental transformation. The only place you’ll find true satisfaction is as God transforms you. God created you to transform you into the image and likeness of Christ.

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Committing Spiritual Adultery

and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: ~ Numbers 15:39b King James Bible

If you put anything in the place of God, you are unfaithful to God. You’re serving an idol. When you follow other gods, that is unfaithfulness to God. It’s spiritual adultery.

Idols can be statues or demons, but the human intellect is also a deceptive idol, and many people worship the human intellect. They lean on their own understanding, but the Bible tells them not to do that. The Bible says the heart is deceitful and wicked.

The passage you just read from Numbers 15:39b is speaking of idolatry, which is spiritual adultery against God. It’s talking about your own ability to observe, sense, and reason–depending on that rather than being led by the Holy Spirit. Most people don’t realize how pitiful human reasoning is. You are unfaithful when you seek after your own heart, mind, and ability to observe. He rightly judges you as an unfaithful wife when you do that.

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God will work through you on your job.

You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone. ~ 2 Corinthians 3:2

He’ll work through you on your job. He’ll speak through you on your job. You’re not paid to spread the Gospel, but when God speaks through you, you speak His Logos. You speak His Rhema. You speak the living Christ. You can do your job by the Wisdom of God. Jesus Christ is the Wisdom of God. If you’re in a meeting, the words you say are alive with the Spirit even as you work on the job at hand and the business purpose of the meeting. You speak Christ and His Wisdom. That’s the Rhema of God. It causes faith in those who hear it even if you never mention the Gospel. If you’re an electrician, you can allow God’s love to flow through your hands. You can allow God to speak through the work of your hands. Those who see it and receive it are hearing the Rhema of God. If you’re a carpenter, you can allow God to work through you. You are a living letter from God to whoever watches you work as long as you flow in His love and wisdom. Just remain in the flow of the Holy Spirit and His Wisdom. Listen to His voice. Learn to let Him lead. Learn to follow Him.

He’ll do the same in your family. He’ll lead you and give you power for righteousness. He’ll do the same in all your relationships. You listen to His voice in ALL your ways. You live, move, and have your being in His utterance. Then, He teaches you as His student, and sets you free from sin. Sin has held you down. Your fleshly nature has enslaved you. Nevertheless, listening to Christ and yielding to Him will set you free.

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Let God’s Wisdom Flow

Christians have a responsibility to follow the leading of Jesus Christ in the political realm. The political realm is just one small part of your life. God has also given you the responsibility to earn a living and take care of your families. If you develop skills for your careers, you can do that in two different ways. The ungodly way is to depend on your intellects and human abilities. The godly way is to seek the face of the Lord regarding your career. When you seek God’s will, that doesn’t mean you don’t go to work. It’s not that you trust God to take care of you so you don’t bother working. The Holy Spirit will lead you to develop your skills and to work hard and smart. He’ll show you the best career for the part of the body of Christ God created you to be. He’ll show you how to develop your skills. His wisdom will flow through you as you work.

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Listen to God’s Voice

Is your hope in politics? No! Your hope is in Christ. God wants you to acknowledge Him in ALL your ways. God wants you to listen to His voice in ALL your ways. ALL your ways include your careers, social life, politics, and every other aspect of your life.

This current order will eventually fade and fall. However, you live your life in righteousness while you’re here. You stand against evil. Righteousness means being led by the Holy Spirit and only saying the words Christ says through you and only doing the acts Christ does through you. If you do that, Christ will have an impact on your culture. The battle is spiritual and must be fought in the spiritual realm.

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The Holy Spirit Will Teach You

Should you throw out your Bible if you depend on the Holy Spirit alone? No. The Holy Spirit will lead you to read your Bible. The Holy Spirit will interpret the meaning of the Bible for you. The Holy Spirit may guide you to look up the original meaning of a word. The Holy Spirit will warn you about false teachers and lead you to teachers and shepherds who will keep you safe from lies. He may lead you to one church body where you grow until you’re ready to move to another church body. You know God’s ultimate plan for the church is unity, but the body of Christ is in that interim between the promise and the full possession. The main thing is that you seek God’s will and yield to His Spirit. God is practical and active in your life.

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Lean Heavily on the Spirit

You need to depend on the Holy Spirit alone. Depend on the Spirit of Christ.

That does bring up some questions. For instance, should you avoid all technical instructions and rather pray God would give you a vision to show you how to program your electronic devices? God could do that, and He could lead you that way. However, the Holy Spirit is likely to give you wisdom and lead you to read the instructions if that’s what’s needed. You will find that He will show you what to do by one means or another. You may just know what to do. He may tell you where to go for the help you need.

You need to be in the Spirit to have the wisdom of Christ flowing through you in either case. Should you avoid researching a topic or a procedure? Not necessarily.

The Holy Spirit often leads you to look up the needed information. God will guide you in the process. When you come to a problem, you’re in the Spirit and seeking God’s will. The Holy Spirit can guide you to look at a video that shows how to do something technical. He can also give you confidence so you know what needs to be done. Don’t limit God.

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The Holy Spirit’s Power

Listen, trust, and obey God by the power of the Holy Spirit. That makes sense. You can do that. You’ve done it. You’ve known when Christ showed you something was right and that you must do it. You’ve known when Christ showed you something was wrong and that you must not do it. You’ve sensed that something was wrong in a situation, and you avoided it. You’ve sensed the peace of God when something was in God’s will. You may not have given Christ the credit, but you should have.

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Don’t do your own thing anymore.

If you totally depend on Christ, He’s your life. You live, move, and have your being in His utterance as He leads, teaches, and corrects you moment by moment in every situation. You listen to Him and obey Him by His power as He gives you His free gift of righteousness.

He speaks His words through you. He does His works through you. You don’t do your own thing anymore.

Then, you don’t partially depend on Him and also depend on other sources for decision-making, understanding, wisdom, knowledge, or truth. You depend on Him wholeheartedly. You aren’t double-minded. You depend on Him for everything.

You stop looking to ungodly counselors for guidance. You stop depending on your fallen mind. When you hear His voice you yield to His Spirit and allow Him to say His words and do His acts through you.

The love of God is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost. If you continue to do that with a sense of expectation, you’ll know the truth. And the truth will set you free.

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