Self-righteousness is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.
-Robert murray Mccheyne
Who is our enemy ?Of course every one will answer in one voice saying Satan is our enemy.
Do we know that we are the biggest enemy of ourselves? We know thousands of ways to please our self.If we are rich enough ,we easily depend on our money. If we are clever and intelligent we depend on our mind for solving our problems,If we are healthy and strong enough we forget to thank God and like to spend our time entertaining us.How much we like to make ourselves happy ?How much we like to show ourselves as religious and content when others approve our Pharisees acts.Our self is the veil which hides the face of the LORD.Do you ever wonder why all this suffering and humiliation even after we accepted Jesus Christ?One of the causes, our Lord may be trying to peel our self away from us.
Self makes you the little God and hinder you from looking towards Father in Heaven.It always says you are good enough to take care of yourselves.For some of us , get rid of self is the huge problem but some can easily submit themselves to the Lord.
Isaiah 28:27 says,
For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge Nor is the cartwheel driven over cummin; But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a club.
In order to get the goodness from the grain it must be threshed according to their types. That is, pulse in general, beans, peas, dill, cummin, etc., are easily beaten out with a stick or flail.Some grains need cart wheel to run over and get threshed.
According to keil and Delitzsch commentary on the old bible says,The punishments and chastisements of Jehovah are the ploughshare and harrow, with which He forcibly breaks up, turns over, and furrows this field. But this does not last for ever. When the field has been thus loosened, smoothed, and rendered fertile once more, the painful process of ploughing is followed by a beneficent sowing and planting in a multiform and wisely ordered fulness of grace.
`Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place--unless you repent.(Rev 2:5).So as the bible says
we must check our heart and dedicate us to the Lord.
In hebrews 12:5-13 The holy bible advices as follows,
-Robert murray Mccheyne
Who is our enemy ?Of course every one will answer in one voice saying Satan is our enemy.
Do we know that we are the biggest enemy of ourselves? We know thousands of ways to please our self.If we are rich enough ,we easily depend on our money. If we are clever and intelligent we depend on our mind for solving our problems,If we are healthy and strong enough we forget to thank God and like to spend our time entertaining us.How much we like to make ourselves happy ?How much we like to show ourselves as religious and content when others approve our Pharisees acts.Our self is the veil which hides the face of the LORD.Do you ever wonder why all this suffering and humiliation even after we accepted Jesus Christ?One of the causes, our Lord may be trying to peel our self away from us.
Self makes you the little God and hinder you from looking towards Father in Heaven.It always says you are good enough to take care of yourselves.For some of us , get rid of self is the huge problem but some can easily submit themselves to the Lord.
Isaiah 28:27 says,
For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge Nor is the cartwheel driven over cummin; But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a club.
In order to get the goodness from the grain it must be threshed according to their types. That is, pulse in general, beans, peas, dill, cummin, etc., are easily beaten out with a stick or flail.Some grains need cart wheel to run over and get threshed.
According to keil and Delitzsch commentary on the old bible says,The punishments and chastisements of Jehovah are the ploughshare and harrow, with which He forcibly breaks up, turns over, and furrows this field. But this does not last for ever. When the field has been thus loosened, smoothed, and rendered fertile once more, the painful process of ploughing is followed by a beneficent sowing and planting in a multiform and wisely ordered fulness of grace.
`Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place--unless you repent.(Rev 2:5).So as the bible says
we must check our heart and dedicate us to the Lord.
In hebrews 12:5-13 The holy bible advices as follows,
"and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, "MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;
FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."
It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.
All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,
and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed".
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