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Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things. – Proverbs 28:5

Confusion is caused more by prejudice than logic. Unwillingness to release precious ideas, pride, or action(inaction) prevent an honest assessment. That honest assessment is all God is asking.

Truth can be discovered by those who want to know and who are willing to act on what they learn.

“Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether my teaching is from God or is merely my own.” – Jesus (John 7:17 New Living Translation)

Dallas Willard, in his book, “Renovation of the Heart” makes this point:

“[T]he confusion now publicly prevailing over the makeup of the human being may not be due to its inherent obscurity. Rather, it may be due to the fact that it is a field where strongly armed prejudices—assumptions about what must be the case, “don’t bother me with facts”—prevent even well-intended people from seeing what, at least in basic outline, is fairly obvious, simple, and straightforward”.1

– fritz

1 – Renovations of the Heart NavPress, Copyright 2002, pg 30

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“Faith is not believing without proof, but trust without reservation” – Fr. Desmond Goonesekera1

– fritz
1 – Mr. James Kanaganayagam, August 15, 2010, Executive Director of Broadcast and Ministry outreach for Back to the Bible ministries.
2 – Picture’s source and descriptive comments can be found here

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Christ in me

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. – Galatians 2:20

I’m not just living “in Christ”, he is living “in me”. I am not trying to do what he did and to be like him, instead I am allowing him to guide my daily tasks as if he were living through me, which he is. I become more like him as a byproduct.

Former pastor and author, Dallas Willard, puts it this way:

[H]e is, in any case, interested in my life, that very existence that is me. There lies my need. I need to be able to lead my life as he would lead it if he were I. So as his disciple I am not necessarily learning how to do special religious things, either as a part of “full-time service” or as a part of “part-time service.” My discipleship to Jesus is, within clearly definable limits, not a matter of what I do, but of how I do it. And it covers everything, “religious” or not.

– fritz
1 – The Divine Conspiracy, by Dallas Willard, pg.276

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