Everyone falls down when first beginning to walk...that's how we learn. We will make mistakes and "fall down" when learning to walk in the Spirit, but that's how we learn. A baby who falls down while first learning to walk will eventually learn from his mistake and will walk. He will need to learn many things as he grows into a mature man, but he will arrive. Parents do not disown their child because he hasn't learned to walk or feed himself yet. They are patient and carry and feed him until then. Is our Heavenly Father any different?
Don't condemn yourself for making mistakes while you are growing in God's family. Like you were born of the flesh and needed to learn how to mature, so it is in the Spirit. We must not quit when we fall down, but we need to get back up and continue learning how to walk with God. The more we learn about what is expected of us and how our Father expects us to live, the easier it becomes to walk upright before Him.
The old saying that, "You never know what God will do," is not true. If we will listen to the Holy Spirit, then He will teach us what God will do. We find how God wants us to know and understand His will and His heart, by the Holy Spirit in 1Corinthians 2:9-10.
We constantly try to improve our righteousness by works. We should abstain from sin and live right before God, but we don't do this to become righteous. We do these things to honor the Gift of Righteousness that has been bestowed upon us by the sacrifice of Jesus. If we walk now in His righteousness, then how can we improve on that?
The religious, carnal mind tells us it's boastful to say we're righteous, but to the Spirit it rings of faith and of truth. We wouldn't dream of coming to God and telling Him that, "Jesus' sacrifice wasn't enough to cleanse us" and that, "We must work for our salvation." But, when we act like our salvation still depends on our own works, we are saying that very thing.
I'm not saying that now grace has come, we can live in any manner we wish and still be saved. But, in order to honor what Jesus has done on my behalf, I will live right before Him. If I make a mistake (and I probably will), then the Blood still covers me and I am still in right standing with God, because of Jesus. It's not my right standing that I have faith in, but His. I don't have to be born again every time I miss the mark. I only need to be born again one time and then I will grow up in truth. 1Corinthians 2:9-10 (Amplified) says, "But on the contrary, as the scripture says, What eye has not seen and ear has not hear and has not entered into the heart of man (all that) God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love Him (who hold Him in affectionate reverence, promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed" . Verse 10 says, "Yet to us, God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the Holy Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God (the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man's scrutiny)."
The Holy Spirit wants to show us all the things that were in the heart of the Father from the very beginning. This only comes by allowing the Holy Spirit to reveal them to us. Man couldn't see, hear or even get into his heart, the truth of the goodness of God's plan for His family. Only the Holy Spirit can show us these things.
This is not at all saying that those who don't know these things are not "the redeemed of the Lord." If we are still only seeking and understanding as mere men, we will never learn how to walk with God as our Father. We will continue in the age old traditions we walked in before. Paul writes in Hebrews 5:11-14 (Amplified), "Concerning this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull in your (spiritual) hearing and even (sluggish, slothful in achieving spiritual insight). For even though by this time you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you all over again the very first principles of God's Word. You have come to need milk, not solid food." Verses 13-14 go on, "For everyone who continues to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced and unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in purpose, thought and action) for he is a mere infant (not able to talk yet). But solid food is for full grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or human law."
We have many laws in America that are contrary to divine law and the men of God should be able to distinguish between these by the Holy Spirit. Just because a law is passed, doesn't mean it will coincide with divine law and God's principles.
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