“The Spirit of Truth will write them in the sands of time and our time is coming when He will write them in the sand and we must walk away from those sins.”

This is in quotes because I ended yesterday’s offering with this statement.  Normally I rebel against being told I must do something. It flies against my desire for free will. At the core of choice we must have free will, so why have I contradicted myself by saying “We must”?

Acts 16:30 English Standard Version (ESV) Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

If the core of choice is free will, then some objective has to be put at risk. 

Example: “I have to be true to myself!”

I agree. Who do you choose to be?

We must walk away from sin, not because we love Jesus more than sin. We must walk away from sin because that is who we are now. We made the choice which put us on a different path than we once walked. We have already made the one choice that matters most of all. We chose to place our faith in Jesus Christ.

We live by faith and we still need to make choices, decisions, informed decisions, based on the Word of God, His promises and His plans. How well informed we are is a matter of the type of person we were and how much we have changed during our walk with Jesus.

We use words like babes, children, young, mature, wise, elder which have nothing to do with age, calling, talent, gifts, titles or beliefs. Growth in Christ is dependent on two things, God’s will and our attention to details. There is nothing we can do to change God’s will but we can pay more attention to detail.

We know that God is at work around us at all times. What He is doing is in the details. We can look at it in panoramic wonder or we can focus on the details. Grand scale is wondrous but we will discover His invitation to get involved in the details. We do not all see God’s handiwork with the same clarity. Clear vision in spiritual insight is not natural, it is developed.

Seeing an opportunity is not always an invitation to get involved. Sometimes it is nothing more than improving our spiritual insight and when we mistake it for an invitation to get involved, God’s will trains us by correction. Results of a test are not a pass/fail grade, but rather the mark upon the door frame indicating growth.

Righteous are you, O Lord, and right are your rules.You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness and in all faithfulness.