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“Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience, But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.” – James 1:3-4
EXPLORATION
Why are you blaming God for your situations, when HE has not draw you into it in the first place. The Book of James reveals to us that God never tempt us with evil...
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” – Matthew 5:48
EXPLORATION
God wants us to be perfect in all things. In our behaviors, attitude, relationship with others, and in our knowledge of good and bad. But, obviously, many like to hide under the notion that we are people created in flesh and so we cannot be perfect. This is not true, God Himself want to perfect us.
The Fear of God
“But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.” – Job 28:12-15
"For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief." - Hebrews 3:16-19 (NKJV)
EXPLORATION
Unbelief is always that very hinders between a person and the blessings of God. Unbelief to some is like a sickness that needs to be cured.
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” - Jeremiah 1:5
“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” - Genesis 1:28
"Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations." - Deuteronomy 7:9