The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death. PROVERBS 13:14 NIV
We never out grow growing up spiritually. If I ever think that I have studied enough, and have reached a point where I can just kick back and coast on some spiritual knowledge, I soon find myself slipping back into my old life and old ways of thinking. Not only that, God will send someone my way to point out an area of my life where too much self-confidence or pride has become rooted and blooming. In my life pride always stops spiritual growth, only by love and honesty from others do I become able to clearly see myself. And then I am able to take the humble steps back to growth and learning. This requires some self-examination. Last September 15th was the Jewish New Year called Rosh Hashanah. There are ten days between the start of the New Year and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Yom Kippur was a day when the sins of the nation were brought before the mercy of God. This is why the people had ten days to look inside and really take a personal inventory.
Webster defines atonement as:
1) Satisfaction given for wrong doing, injury, etc.; amends; expiation.
2) The effect of Jesus suffering and death in redeeming mankind and bringing about the reconciliation of God to man.
I went many years without ever taking a look inside at the real person who took up residence in this body. When I got around to doing a personal inventory there was so much stuff backed up from self-will and egotistical pride that I did not want to look too closely. Only by being reminded by others of what was happening on the outside, my behavior in other words, was I able to look inside on a regular basis. This job will never be finished if I wish to continue to grow spiritually. Thanks for letting me share this, and for reminding myself to take a look inside. God is doing for me what I could not do for myself .JRE
The author of Hebrews writing about Jesus.
For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. HEBREWS 2:17-18 NIV
A.A. Step Four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
We never out grow growing up spiritually. If I ever think that I have studied enough, and have reached a point where I can just kick back and coast on some spiritual knowledge, I soon find myself slipping back into my old life and old ways of thinking. Not only that, God will send someone my way to point out an area of my life where too much self-confidence or pride has become rooted and blooming. In my life pride always stops spiritual growth, only by love and honesty from others do I become able to clearly see myself. And then I am able to take the humble steps back to growth and learning. This requires some self-examination. Last September 15th was the Jewish New Year called Rosh Hashanah. There are ten days between the start of the New Year and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Yom Kippur was a day when the sins of the nation were brought before the mercy of God. This is why the people had ten days to look inside and really take a personal inventory.
Webster defines atonement as:
1) Satisfaction given for wrong doing, injury, etc.; amends; expiation.
2) The effect of Jesus suffering and death in redeeming mankind and bringing about the reconciliation of God to man.
I went many years without ever taking a look inside at the real person who took up residence in this body. When I got around to doing a personal inventory there was so much stuff backed up from self-will and egotistical pride that I did not want to look too closely. Only by being reminded by others of what was happening on the outside, my behavior in other words, was I able to look inside on a regular basis. This job will never be finished if I wish to continue to grow spiritually. Thanks for letting me share this, and for reminding myself to take a look inside. God is doing for me what I could not do for myself .JRE
The author of Hebrews writing about Jesus.
For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. HEBREWS 2:17-18 NIV
A.A. Step Four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
