While many may not totally believe or embrace all parts of the Bible,
there are many points on which many will agree. For example murder
certainly is not good and neither is stealing, lying, and generally not
following “The Golden Rule.”
All these are clear to grasp and easy to understand, but as Mark Twain infamously
said, it is parts like today’s Bible verse that are a real
stumbling block for a lot of people.
Here’s the thing about “God’s Word”...it is NOT an easy path
through life, but a Difficult One. To follow what God says requires discipline,
dedication, and determination to look past the temptations and distractions of this
world and aim for the high goal of your calling to live a peaceable, productive,
and prudent life.
As Twain points out, some of these injunctions to living — while
straightforward to read and comprehend — are seemingly impossible to follow.
For example in today’s verse on forgiveness, this is unbearable for many people
due to their hurt, anger, or the injustice they received from someone, but here is
how this is possible and what Twain did not understand.
As long as you try do this in your human strength it will always be either extremely difficult
or nearly impossible, but once you receive the Holy Spirit of God in your life and totally yield
to His direction, the Bible promises us that “With men this is impossible; but with God
all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26)
Are you struggling with unforgiveness? As today’s scripture says, if you do not forgive
you will not be forgiven. That is easy to understand but impossible to follow unless you
let go of your pride, yield to the Holy Spirit and start simply by making a conscious,
mental decision to forgive. (Don’t worry about emotionally “feeling”
forgiving..that will come in time...)
Friend, if you 'GO WITH GOD', All Things then Are Indeed POSSIBLE.
Unlike Twain’s dilemma, it is not a matter of understanding, but of faith, trust and obedience
to the one that literally wrote the book. Then and only then will it be possible to have
victory over all the difficult parts that you DO UNDERSTAND.
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