(quote from RealReality.org/Real_Faith_and_Reason_Vol_2_-_Scientia.pdf)

Godly thinking involves God rather than assumptions, and God reveals reality. Godly thinking acknowledges God’s leading, teaching, and correcting. Equally important, Godly thinking yields to God’s Spirit and allows Him to lead, so He says His words and does His works through us. And yet we have a part in it. Our part is to yield ourselves to His righteousness and His love.

If we yield in this way, do we eliminate the possibility of being wrong? Of course not. We’re fighting a war with Satan, the culture, and our sinful fleshly natures, so everyone makes many mistakes just as the original apostles confessed they also made many mistakes.

However, since we focus on Christ, He gives the discernment, and we don’t depend on ourselves for this discernment. Maturity increases discernment. We become mature as we yield to the Holy Spirit. We don’t have a way to know how far we are down this path of maturity since God hasn’t given us a foolproof way to judge our maturity. However, we know we must keep walking in the Spirit because we haven’t arrived at the fullness. The fourth chapter of Ephesians lets us know God has a plan and a method for making us complete and mature in Christ.

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