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ALL THINGS
The greatness of God is beyond everything and definitely whatsoever you are going through.
Let us look at John chapter 1 verse three. (John 1:3) For an insight to the phrase “all things.”
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Upon first glance of the passage above, even with our focus on the phrase “all things,” we perceive it as a whole.
However, the word describing the phrase “all things” carries a far insightful meaning. It speaks not of a whole at once, rather all things as in an infinite detail. This is the Greek word, pas – meaning each, every, each part and parts. Every item of creation, one by one.
Beyond Self-Help: Trust in the Lord
One thing that is always present with you is your awareness. Where there is awareness, may you use the right discernment. Knowing where I am is not where I want to be in my life. Considering it is our actions, and our will, which at times usually placed us in such a place. Even then, let your desire be, ‘Lord, help me, hear me.’ When we know the danger of our situation, the honest is our prayer.
To this we pray. In like manner we say:
Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit fails: hide not Thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Psalm 143:7
Self-help falls short. Embrace self-awareness to understand your situation. Yet, look beyond your condition and will. Trust in the Lord, acknowledging your limitations, and open yourself to divine guidance, support,…
Hope in Christ is the reflection of an earnest efforts to become complete.
The word ‘hope’ here, implies a good or a pleasing anticipation. And anticipation is confidence. With confidence we obtain the discernment and thrust needed to navigate forward in the journey of life.
And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as Christ is pure.
1 John 3:3
Though we in our human nature cannot purify ourselves, but as we see Christ as our hope at all times and in all circumstance, the clinging residue of a deprave world shall not be to us a contamination.
Acquiring wisdom and showing the fruits thereof.
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
Proverbs 8:1
Or as it is rendered in the original text. ‘Does not wisdom call? And does not understanding speak?’
Observe, in order for a call to be heard, one must be listening. Furthermore, in order for the call that is heard to be deciphered, the same person who has heard must be willing to engage in the summary of the matter that is at hand.
That is to say, when we position ourselves to listen, we are not driven solely by emotions of which are often uncontrollable. Instead, when we are listening, we are akin to a soldier at a precise place and time, unknown to the soldier, he trusts not his emotions, for he is under command, and he waits for the commanding order before he acts. After he has heard,…
Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
Revelation 3:10
Without patience you cannot endure. And what is kept in your heart will positioned you to be in the right mind or the opposite thereof.
The word kept, used above is the word tēreō, which implies to attend to carefully, to watch with the eyes, to prevent from escaping.
Considering this is how we have to keep the Word of God.
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