Forums / Theology Forum / Re: Hidden In God

on: May 06, 2010, 09:46:30 AM

This way is a way of grace. This is why we should not be quick to judge. Because we live with a level of our own weakness that defines how God is going to meet us at the cross roads of our sin and His grace. This is why it is dangerous to listen to the counsel of the world. Because there are some things that we focus on that will add more grief than we can handle. All of our sin is because there is some corruption in all of our parts. Sometimes we think that God is exposing our pain in order to deflect the pleasure we get in sinning. But God determines how the path that we learn in the way of our own weakness. In other words the reason that we are gaining pleasure out of our sin is because God is making us not trust in our own ability to our joy. He wants us to find our comfort from our sins in His mercy. But there are many problems that we have in this life and we are always searching for a solution that we think God is trying to work in us at the present time. We fail to see that Gods time table is not like ours. This is why our lives must be hidden in God. Because there is a lot of counsel that will take us on long rabbit trails. There are many evil intentions for men to draw other men into their particular bondage and at the same time do it for the purposes of dealing with us in our own sins. But we fail to hold onto the hope we had at the beginning. We are not seeking to lose our lives to find our security in God alone. But we are trading our pleasure for sin and in place we are being subject to the bondage of men. And in the end we will find that sin has more pleasure than the one that God was using to humble us and keep us on the path of learning. We must see that our big problem is that we try to change our most insecure areas by the flesh because we feel the guilt of our sins. God deals with us in a way that His grace is giving us a sense of freedom in falling in order for us to find a peace that will keep us from utterly falling. When we find that we are searching these things out for reasons that are not entirely under the disposition of free grace then we are in danger of forgetting where we came from. We loose connection with the Head. We will always persevere through our own sins and find grace to help us in our time of need. The grace gives us the motive to keep from trusting in our working for a payment in order to move down this path. Men who are self righteous will be full of warnings and distresses in order to get us to take our eyes off  of Christ. Sometimes its best for us to struggle with sin and find that it is not as pleasurable as we thought the end would be. Then we will find that God loves us in a way that He is building in us a strong sense of repentance to sin because His way is greater than sin. Love always wins. This is seeking to be hidden in God.