| Daily
Thought – July 2, 2004 |
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| LIVING THE SOLUTION WITH DAILY INSPIRATION |
Let’s
leave the preschool finger-painting exercises on Christ
and get on with the grand work of art. Grow up in Christ.
The basic foundational truths are in place: turning
your back on "salvation by self-help" and
turning in trust toward God; baptismal instructions;
laying on of hands; resurrection of the dead; eternal
judgment. God helping us, we'll stay true to all that.
But there's so much more. Let's get on with it! (Hebrews
6:1-3, the Message)
Do you believe in eternal judgment?
Do you believe in the resurrection, coming back to life
from the dead? Why do people still want to hold on to
and argue over wrong teaching about baptism, submersion
versus sprinkling? (The bible is very clear about this.)
When was the last time you laid hands on someone and
they were healed, raised from the dead, or cured of
some disease?
For many of us these things would fall into the “advanced
faith” category, but the writer of the letter
to Hebrews is extremely clear that all of these things
are basic underlying fundamentals of truth; child’s,
no, baby's play of the faith. “The basic foundational
truths are in place: turning your back on 'salvation
by self-help' and turning in trust toward God; baptismal
instructions; laying on of hands; resurrection of the
dead; eternal judgment.” Yet for many of us we
can’t even get there. Why do we look at the basics
and struggle? As the author said there is so much more
that God wants and has for us if we will just stop struggling
over, arguing over, resisting acceptance of, the basic
fundamentals of the faith, and get on with it. Stop
trying to understand everything in your limited terms,
stop trying to make everything fit into your idea of
how things ought to be. Remember, God is the initiator
of this relationship. He died so we could have a relationship
with Him. He gets to define how this relationship will
work, not us, and He has made it clear in His word.
So as it says in Corinthians 13:11, put away childish
things and ways; embrace the infant truths of the faith;
then get on with the real meat of the relationship God
has and wants with you.
Live it with Passion
Pete Reinbold
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