Whether you believe you can do a thing or believe you can't - you are right. Charles Capps
We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification. Romans 15:1-2 NKJV
Scruples and edification, a couple of words that you just dont run into every day. For years I passed over the word edification thinking I knew what it meant but did not. I thought it was something like verification. How wrong I was. Webster says that to edify means to build or to construct A building is known as an edifice. Now days when I run across the word edification, I think of charging up or building up a battery with energy. Scripture says that we can edify ourselves (1 Cor. 14:4), and since I have learned this I practice it. At times when I am down, I can go into my prayer closet and pray to the Father in secret who will reward me openly. This reward comes in the way of edification or being charged up with new spiritual energy. At times I sing praises to God, even when I dont feel like singing, and I become charged up. I dont really know how it works, but it does. God said it, and so it is!
The other word scruples I had to look up today. Webster says, a feeling of hesitancy, doubt, or uneasiness arising from difficulty in deciding what is right. Boy! Ive been there for sure. I am grateful for brothers and sister in Christ who have had patience with me when I had scruples. Edification will cure the scruples, being charged up by the Holy Spirit. God does for me what I could not do for myself ..JRE
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We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification. Romans 15:1-2 NKJV
Scruples and edification, a couple of words that you just dont run into every day. For years I passed over the word edification thinking I knew what it meant but did not. I thought it was something like verification. How wrong I was. Webster says that to edify means to build or to construct A building is known as an edifice. Now days when I run across the word edification, I think of charging up or building up a battery with energy. Scripture says that we can edify ourselves (1 Cor. 14:4), and since I have learned this I practice it. At times when I am down, I can go into my prayer closet and pray to the Father in secret who will reward me openly. This reward comes in the way of edification or being charged up with new spiritual energy. At times I sing praises to God, even when I dont feel like singing, and I become charged up. I dont really know how it works, but it does. God said it, and so it is!
The other word scruples I had to look up today. Webster says, a feeling of hesitancy, doubt, or uneasiness arising from difficulty in deciding what is right. Boy! Ive been there for sure. I am grateful for brothers and sister in Christ who have had patience with me when I had scruples. Edification will cure the scruples, being charged up by the Holy Spirit. God does for me what I could not do for myself ..JRE
http://www.jerryengland.blogspot.com
