11/24/21
God Is not controlling. He allows us to make decisions. Those decisions will sometimes have consequences. The Holy Spirit will GUIDE us but not force our hand or force us to make decisions. We have free will so that we CHOOSE the Lord and His higher ways, every time. We choose to love Him with our obedience not because we have to but because we want to choose Him and HIS love for us.
Luke 11:34-36 (AMPC) Your EYE is the lamp of your body; when your eye (your conscience) is sound and fulfilling its office, your body is full of LIGHT; but when it is not sound and is not fulfilling its office your body is full of darkness. Be careful, therefore, that the LIGHT that is in you is not darkness. If then your ENTIRE body is illuminated, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright(with light) as when a lamp with it’s bright rays gives you light.
– I have a sound mind- I will make right choices- When the Light of Christ Jesus shines in my mind and exposes darkness, I will repent, my soul is healed, and my mind is sound, fulfilling its office, causing me to make right decisions.
– The Light of Christ causes us to make good decisions that are Holy Spirit led. I can choose things that are good for me, my will, is in alignment with the will of God.
– His goodness/kindness draws me to repentance and making the choices that are in alignment with His good and perfect will for my life.
– If I slip, grace covers me, the Blood redeems me, and the Oil heals me.
– I am free to choose and to make right decisions
– relationship not dictatorship – trust not control
eye: G3788 – opthalmos – they eyes, eyes of the mind, faculty of knowing
Lamp: G3088 Luchonos – word origin G3022 Lekos – Brilliant witness, dazzling white, shining white garment
Light : G5460 – Photenios – composed of light – a bright character, full of light, well litword origin – G5457 – Phos
– emitted by lamp- a fire – because it is light that sheds light
– of truth, it is knowledge with spiritual purity
– that which exposed to the view of all
– reason, mind- the power to understand, especially moral and spiritual truth
As I focus on Jesus, His light (Phos) the power to understand moral and spiritual truth enters my faculty of knowing (eyes)
Because my eyes are filled with the light of Jesus, because I look to Him and not the things of the word then I am able to understand spiritual truth and make good decisions
I make good decisions when I decide to look at Jesus
Because I choose to look at Jesus, I make right decisions and have spiritual understanding
I am able to discern what is TRUTH!