Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord
READ, LINGER, PROCESS…
Perhaps inferiority keeps us humble. So, I (we) wrestle with superiority and inferiority; humility and arrogance; coveting and regret.
What is this thinking of the psyche, this battle of natures within us?
The conflicts of thought are provoking and educational, and each decision has a price.
When consciousness becomes constant evil, it needs constant sleep—permanently.
I recall the pivotal year when I turned fourteen, when the “forbidden fruits” seemed to pull me to yield as “a part of growing up.” Everyone finds their bliss in indulgence of the curious and the temptation(s) that follow is usually a climactic surprise and a release of joy that needs repetition.
The joys of life and its gratifications usually end, only to be repeated due to the joy of gratification.
Pay attention to God’s wisdom. We tend to compensate ourselves for our unhappiness, our failures, and our misfortunes. After all, who else will?
How many atheists or anti-theists think in contradictions? How many are angry at God for not existing?
C. S. Lewis said, “When the pessimist’s life is threatened, his impulse to preserve life is stronger than his negative thinking—that life is not worth preserving.”
Having tasted life, we are subjected to preserving it.
Knowledge proves God, proves religion as man’s way to God. Whereas Christ is God’s way to God.
Religion is damned error because it replaces Christ as the devil’s ace trump.
Involution is defined as “consciousness without knowledge, morality, or spirituality.” Involution then is defined as an idiot.
Matter is not reality, it is the creation of the Creator-God and God (Jesus Christ) who is reality.
In hell, the believer’s posterity will be in shock at their disbelief of things so apparent.
Man creates his own images, then puts words into their mouths and then believes his creation spoke.
Why is it easier to Believe a Lie?
It is possible to hear the whispers of wisdom as it echoes across the heavens from eternity and enters the mind. Just listen. Wisdom travels faster than the speed of light, its source. God is light.
Wisdom: The ability to live life with skill and obedience—a godly life in an ungodly world using divine viewpoint. The Word of God is spiritually benefiting. It is our born again human spirit which feeds on every word of the Lord God, who is a Spirit. Spirit relates to Spirit.
To recognize evil in the world is to recognize our own capacity apart from God’s Word. We are not morally superior to evildoers.
Jesus was the incarnation of truth but not an absolutist.
The Jews of Christ’s time wanted (expected) the crown (Messiah) without the cross (Savior).
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise indicated.