GOD’S POWER

Ken’s Thoughts,
My does this put our pride in the garbage can.  Admit my weaknesses so I can walk in the power of God???   What a paradox.  Just like John writes, you have to die to this world to be accepted in the next,  John 12:24-26.  That if you friends with the world then you are an enemy with God.  For all that is in the world shall parish but he that does the will of GOD will abide forever.  Hypocrisy is the key word here. which means to be an actor.  The act of pretending to be something that you are not.  Before honor is humility.  God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.  And it works both ways.  Today I was bringing home a box springs for a full bed,   Heading home and it started really clouding over as far as I could see down the coast and sprinkling.   So I rebuked the rain but drove back to Home Depot for a tarp and parked in the covered loading area.   Bought the tarp,  got it all tied down nicely for the 20 miles to Kealia through Hohaunau (place of the rains)  and not one drop of rain all the way home.   So it is really difficult for me to get all of the other voices on hold so to only hear the Word of God but even then I step away and wonder,  was that really God or just me talking to myself.   So this area of walking in power does take some practice in humility in finding the real me and then the real HIM. 

Much of what we do that seems right to us does not pass the “good” filter of the Holy Spirit and has Pride or Fear or Lust in it so it is good to check the reason for the reason.  Many times, because we want to be liked, we say things out of fear to maintain a friendship or to keep some one from being angry with us.  It is called appeasement and it only makes a bully grow stronger, or the pride grow larger or the lust perhaps less noticeable.but more pronounced.  Paul wrote about in his letter to the church at Corinth:

 For while Jews [demandingly] ask for signs and miracles and Greeks pursue philosophy and wisdom,²³ We preach Christ (the Messiah) crucified, [preaching which] to the Jews is a scandal and an offensive stumbling block [that springs a snare or trap], and to the Gentiles it is absurd and utterly unphilosophical nonsense.²⁴ But to those who are called, whether Jew or Greek (Gentile), Christ [is] the Power of God and the Wisdom of God.²⁵ [This is] because the foolish thing [that has its source in] God is wiser than men, and the weak thing [that springs] from God is stronger than men.²⁶ For [simply] consider your own call, brethren; not many [of you were considered to be] wise according to human estimates and standards, not many influential and powerful, not many of high and noble birth.²⁷ [No] for God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame.²⁸ And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are,²⁹ So that no mortal man should [have pretense for glorying and] boast in the presence of God.³⁰ But it is from Him that you have your life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, [revealed to us a knowledge of the divine plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as] our Righteousness [thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God], and our Consecration [making us pure and holy], and our Redemption [providing our ransom from eternal penalty for sin].³¹ So then, as it is written, Let him who boasts and proudly rejoices and glories, boast and proudly rejoice and glory in the Lord.  1 Cor.1:22-31

Yours in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,  Ken<><    www.Trinity-Aloha.org