Here follows a document I’ve merely compiled, certainly not crafted, that I’ve been contemplating since the Sept 17 Utmost reading that inspired me to offer you these four posts:
- God does not save us from temptations – He sustains us in the midst of them.
- The Importance We Understanding Chamber’s Disdain For Considering Civilization With Any Permanency…
- The reality that the American christianity has in essence joined the four other major christ-less world religions, such that..
- Hopefully, at this late hour, we as former encultured doubting Thomas’s are finally, practically convinced, that there is only one true God worthy of our worship anywhere, and the now forming obscure anonymous underground cells of remnant clusters of His Christ-Followers scattered about planet earth, are indeed celebrating their faith undeterred, unfettered, in the bright fullness of His Righteousness, rejoicing that they are counted worthy of suffering with / for their Savior and Lord. Hallelujah!
Your comments and prayers for greater truth & clarity are continually welcomed!
Post # 1. But Until Then, Is There Good in Temptation? My Utmost For His Highest Sept 17
No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man… 1 Corinthians 10:13
Note: the words in this reading in all caps are merlin’s additions to the reading!
The word temptation has come to mean something bad to us today, as we tend to use the word in the wrong way. UNDERSTAND, temptation itself is not sin; it is something we are bound to face simply by virtue of being human. PERHAPS, not to be tempted, would mean that we were already so shameful that we would be beneath contempt. Yet many of us suffer from temptations we should never have to suffer, simply because we have refused to allow God to lift us to a higher level where we would face temptations of another kind. (I DO NOT RECALL OF HEARING THIS PRIOR?)
A person’s inner nature, what he possesses in the inner, spiritual part of his being, determines what he is tempted by on the outside. The temptation fits the true nature of the person being tempted and reveals the possibilities of his nature, OR THE INNER REALITIES of his SPIRITUAL NATURE. Every person actually determines or sets the level of his own temptation, because temptation will come to him in accordance with the level of his controlling, inner nature.
EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT A MECHANIC, I’M GOING TO ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN THIS “CONTROLLING INNER NATURE” CHAMBER’S SPEAKS OF PRIOR, TO A DEVICE CALLED A “GOVERNOR” THAT I WITNESSED IN OPERATION ON OUR GASOLINE TRACTOR ENGINE BACK HOME AS A CHILD. THIS WAS ESPECIALLY EVIDENT BY BOTH SIGHT AND SOUND WHILE POWERING THE THRESHING MACHINE OR SILO FILLER, SUCH THAT THIS “GOVENOR” DEVICE SENSED (DISCERNED) PRESUMEDLY BY A DROP IN THE ENGINES’ VACUMN THAT THE ENGINE NEEDED MORE GASOLINE ASAP TO MAKE MORE POWER BECAUSE OF THE INCREASED LOAD DEMAND CAUSED BY WE KIDS PURPOSEFULLY INCREASING THE SPEED WITH WHICH WE FORKED THE BUNDLES ONTO THE CONVEYOR, INSTANTLY DEMANDING MORE ENGINE RPM’S (SPEED) IN ORDER TO KEEP UP WITH OUR INCREASED BUNDLE FLOW, OR ELSE, IF THE BUNDLE PACE CONTINUED AND THE GOVENOR DID NOT INCREASE THE FLOW OF FUEL, THE ENGINE WOULD HAVE GONE INTO A STALL CAUSING THE THRESHING MACHINE TO POSSIBLY PLUG UP, TO THE INSTANT CHAGRIN OF OUR FATHERS, PERHAPS NOT UNLIKE THE DISPLEASURE OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER WHEN WE’RE STIFLING EITHER THE DISCERNMENT OR RESPONSIVE ACTIONS APPROPRIATE OF OUR TEMPTATIONS.
Temptation comes to me, suggesting a possible shortcut to the realization of my highest goal. (OUR SELFISH GAIN?) It does not NECESSARILY direct me toward what I understand to be evil, but toward what I understand, OR DESIRE, to be good. Temptation is something that confuses me for a while WHEN I don’t know whether something is right or wrong. When I yield to it, I have made lust a god, and the temptation itself becomes the proof that it was only my own fear that prevented me from falling into the sin earlier, AS OPPOSED TO BEING UNCONCIOUSLY PROTECTED FROM WHATEVER BE THE TEMPTATION, BY THE INDWELLING OF HIS EMPOWERING SPIRIT’S GROUNDSWELL OF AUTOMATIC REDEMPTIVE ACTIONS, MUCH LIKE THE “GOVENOR” ABOVE EMPOWERING THE STRESSED OUT GASOLINE ENGINE NEEDING MORE POWER ASAP!
Temptation is not something we can escape; NOR NECESSARILY DESIRE TO; in fact, it is essential to the well-rounded life of a person. Beware of thinking that you are tempted as no one else. What you go through is the common inheritance of the human race, not something that no one has ever before endured. God does not save us from temptations. RATHER, He sustains us in the midst of them (see Hebrews 2:18 & Hebrews 4:15-16).
NEXT UP: Post #2. The Importance We Understand For Chamber’s Disdain For Considering Civilization With Permanency…