Romans 7:21
21 I find [heurisko] then [ara] a law [nomos], that [hoti], when I [emoi] would [thelo] do [poieo] good [kalos], evil [kakos] is present [parakeimai] with me [emoi]. KJV-Interlinear
21 So I find it to be a law that when I
want to do right, evil lies close at hand. ESV
Mans own works cannot succeed, because the sin nature
within, impedes in that effort. And not only does the sin nature impede, but
also throws hypocritical barriers in our way.
Far too often our focus is on the specks in others,
while we ignore the stone in our own eyes.
We judge or are opinionated against others, while we
ignore our own faults.
We make issue over things of insignificance, while
disregarding the real priorities of life.
We take exception as to what others say, or how they
say it, while ignoring our obligation to learn Bible doctrine and grow up in
our spiritual life.
We take exception as to how others dress or look,
while ignoring our obligation to learn Bible doctrine and grow up in our
spiritual life.
We take exception as to how others spend their money,
while ignoring our obligation to learn Bible doctrine and grow up in our own
spiritual life.
We take exception as to how others live or choose to
live their life, while ignoring our own obligation to learn Bible doctrine and
grow up in our spiritual life.
We invent standards for our own life, and try to
impose them on others, while ignoring our obligation to learn Bible doctrine
and grow up in our spiritual life.
We pursue a disregard for our obligations and
responsibilities of life, while ignoring our obligation to learn Bible doctrine
and grow up in our spiritual life.
And in case you don’t see a pattern, we as human
beings, have a tendency to focus on the many and various details of life, that
are, in reality, insignificant, while we tend to ignore the one true thing in
life, that is significant, and critical to our life now, and to our life in
eternity.
The Bible, never once instructs us as to how we should
live our life, nor even as to how we should think, but the Bible does instruct
us to learn Bible doctrine, and thereby to guide our life by means of the
doctrine that we learn, from instruction.
The world population is approaching 8 billion people.
Since Adam and Eve, probably well over a trillion people have been born into
this world, lived their life, and died.
Each and every person has been and is a unique
individual. All have grown up in dozens and dozens and dozens of different
cultures. All have been numbered among different skin colors. All have learned
from the thousands of different languages that have existed. All have had
different talents and abilities.
But the only thing in common to everyone since Adam
and Eve, has been Bible doctrine, which was made available verbally in the
beginning, and in writing as we have it today.
What people say and think and do and how they live
their life is irrelevant.
The ancient patriarchs, had multiple wives and
mistresses, and yet they were not condemned. Great men of the Bible sinned and
failed in every imaginable way, and yet they were not condemned.
It is not what you do in life, because of the
misdirection of the sin nature, it is how you redirect your life by means of
learning Bible doctrine and advancing and living within your spiritual life,
that is important.
Seeking a life of perfection, or seeking a world of
perfection, or attempting to produce perfection, or even expecting perfection
as you see it, is a misdirected effort.
The important thing in life, is to pursue a daily
Bible study, to live in fellowship, and to advance in your spiritual life. And
this is what the great people of the Bible did, in spite of their failures. And
that is why they succeeded.
Study [by instruction],
to show thyself
approved [spiritually mature]
unto God,
a workman [student]
that need not be
ashamed [ignorant],
rightly dividing [learning, understanding, discerning]
the word of truth [Bible doctrine].
These studies, are a part of the massive
daily study web site at DailyBibeStudy.Org, that is easily accessible, and are
written, so that you can come to Christ if you have not done so already, and
therefore not be lost forever.
And
if you have already believed in Christ, then these studies are written so you
can learn and understand and grow in your spiritual life, so that you can come
to the full knowledge of Christ, so that you can fulfill your meaning and
purpose in life as God intended for you, and so you can qualify for a
phenomenal eternal reward which you will have forever.
To
ignore this opportunity to pursue a daily study means you will be incomplete,
unfulfilled and you will lose out, big time.
The
Daily Bible Study is online, making it possible as never before in all of human
history, to advance in ones relationship with God, through Christ, and to
complete yourself beyond your imagination.
But
you have to decide to make that commitment.
No one else can study for you.
You have to do that yourself.
