01 July 2017

God's Word for Saturday, 7/1/17

I’m speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it’s important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.

Romans 12:3 MSG

4 comments:

Toirdhealbheach Beucail said...

" it’s important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God." Seems there a lot of people that think this way.

Rev. Paul said...

Sadly, TB, it's taught that way in many denominations. People are uncomfortable with the idea of a personal God Who is all-powerful and knows everything about them. They rather see themselves as deigning to pay attention to Him, when it's convenient for themselves. It's an issue I've preached about more than once.

Rev. Paul said...

p.s. They stopped teaching Constitutional law at the same time, substituting case law instead. So from that point forward, it ceased to matter what the Constitution says; only mattered what judges SAY it says.

Toirdhealbheach Beucail said...

So similar to the your last post's comments, "I feel like..."