He sent from above,
He took me;
He drew me out of
many waters.
He delivered me from
my strong enemy you,
from those who hated
me,
for they were too
strong for me.
They confronted me in
the day of my calamity,
but the LORD was my
support.
He also brought me
out into a broad place;
He delivered me
because He
delighted in me.
Psalm 18: 16 -- 19
From the
depths of Babylonian religions and extending their false teachings by the
inculcation of their religiosity and practice towards beliefs in many gods into
the following empires which captured them and by assimilating their gods even
by their renaming of them held influence over the people. Even God's chosen people, the Israelites,
God had to send to His people warnings of what would happen to them if they
assimilated these false teachings and practices. History will testify to the fact that the Hebrews did not always
follow the teachings of God and inculcated foreign religions and began to
practice what was and is detestable to God.
God is not the delighted that people would teach and practice that which
was contradicted in his revelation of Himself and His law that would keep His
people from false teachings and idols.
Some may cast their objections that God had not a people for Himself and
there are many ways by which a person can come to know God. This is the belief of many people in today's
society. The culture today is a
pluralistic society that does not condemn a person for having a
"truth" different from another.
A person's belief is there is and is a persons path to find God. Many people today are not even searching for
God and have for their objects those things that will give them happiness even
in the face of calamity. Even some
Christians become stagnant in their service, and a worship of God thinking that
He is either far removed from the circumstances of this world or simply believe
that He does not hear their prayers causing them to become apathetic. Yet, this almost tells us an important fact
that God sent from above taking his child and delivering him from a strong
enemy, an enemy that is found in our circumstances of calamity. He delivers his children because he delights
in them. Therefore, God is the superior
object of our faith, and worship.
God is
unchangeable and because He is unchangeable He is true superiority. If a person was to contest this fact it is
to object to the truth that is common to all sentient people for God cannot be
contemplated to be anything else or if there is objection to this truth all
that has been done is to disguise the truth by veiling it by placing other
objects to be superior and only worthy of their respect and desire. God being unchangeable then His wisdom is
unchangeable and to see this in any other way is simply to shroud the truth;
there is a shrinking back from what can be seen mentally. This objection speaks of man's evil habits,
to pursuit a less valuable object and to place their praise and worship upon an
object other than the true object which is the unspeakable, unchangeable, and
superior One: God. It is simply this
fact, there are those who desire such evil and do not wish to own the superior
object: God. How does a person compare
the things of this temporal world which are changeable and place their praise
upon such things that are changeable and will not praise and worship and
unchangeable God? How can a person come
to know and see this unchangeable God?
Man is
fallen in his nature by the act of the first man Adam which has corrupted the
souls of Adams progeny. God has
revealed himself because what may be known of God is a manifest in them because
God has shown it to them as we find by inspiration this revelation given
through Paul: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in
unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God
has shown it to them. For since the
creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they
are without excuse" (Romans 1: 18 -- 20). To be able to enjoy the Truth
which lives in unchangeably the soul must be purified so that it may have the
power to believe the truth and when the truth is perceived they may rest in
this truth. It is by the purification
of our souls that we can come near to God Who is in every place, and sentenced
to its children the pure desires and virtuous habits. When we speak wisdom we must come to understand that God is
Wisdom and it is His Wisdom that became incarnate and by that incarnation He
has set forth the pattern that leads His children to purification. God has condescended to adapt Himself to our
weaknesses, and to show us the pattern of a holy life that can be formed even
in our humanity. For us to come to God
is to act wisely even though when Wisdom came to us proud man thought him to be
foolish. And when we come to Him we
become strong even though there are those who think that Christians are
foolish: "but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the
power of God and the wisdom of God.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of
God is stronger than men. For you see
your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many
mighty, not many noble, are called. But
God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and
God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which
are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised
God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things
that are, that in no flesh should glory in His presence" (1 Corinthians 1:
24 -- 29).
We now must
examine the Wisdom of God sent by Him delivering His people who he has delight
and saved by the incarnation of His Wisdom.
This will be the subject of the neck blog.
If then you were raised with Christ,
seek those
things which are above,
where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
Set your
mind on things above,
not on things on the earth.
Before you died,
and your life is hidden with Christ
in God.
When Christ who is our life appears, then you
also will
appear with Him in glory.
Colossians 3: 1 -- 4
Die today from the world’s principles
Richard L. Crumb
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