The Devotional
Papa “J” and his thoughts?
The strength of pride runs deep in the hearts of us all. It is the reason why Satan fell from the grace of God. Pride is selfishness in action, the bitterness of defilement. Pride suppresses the Truth like that of the fool who says there is no God. Psalm 53:1 and Proverbs 14:3
I was thinking (now that can be dangerous) about the word dominion. You may be saying; so what? Dominion is far from my thoughts! Okay, but bear with me for a moment and see if it is on your mind more than you willing to admit. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary says that I have dominion over the dictionary simply because it belongs to me. So as small as dominion can be boiled down too, it can also be demonstrated to it's grandest expression and that is the point! I own a dictionary! Is it important that I prove it? Faith then takes over and says, okay you own the dictionary, good enough! But, there is another element to ownership and dominion! The elements of this planet were created by God. The earth is alive with plants, animals, fish, birds and all sorts of creeping things that crawl in and out of the earth. In Psalm 8:3-9 King David is thinking about ownership and dominion. He is considering the created (Ownership) of God and then he asks God, “What is man that You are mindful of him and the sons of man that You visit? God has made man a “little” lower than the angel, but even so you have placed Your Glorious Image on man, what? (Dominion) Psalm 8:6-9 talks about this dominion. God owns all that He Created, but He has given it to you and me, for dominion. Oh! Sad day, sad day, we have treated what God has given us so badly that He will need to replace soon! 2 Peter 3:10-13.
HEBREWS
Hebrews 13:10 There is a continuing thread of solid truth throughout the Bible that proves God's love for your soul. The soul is the real you, it is to be untouched by the outside world around us. The only One who has access to You (soul) is God Himself. It is the altar from where you serve God and no one has the right to partake of the substance of your soul (altar) other that God Himself.
Hebrews 13:11 The efforts of religion over the centuries has in many ways confused and distorted the capacity of the soul. Even the covenants and promises of God have become idolatress, simply because man has mixed human effort with truth to develop works to try and prove his worth to God, over faith in God. Works of human effort prove nothing but sin to God.
Hebrews 13:12 God in His infinite Wisdom went beyond the finite limits of man with His Son Jesus. Outside the limits of man, God born His Son in the womb of the virgin Mary. A man without a sinful nature, he had no human father. Hebrews 10:5-9 states that God Himself prepared a body, a sinless body to reconcile your soul and mind back to Himself. You and I must be willing to take a look outside the religious camps of the world and see Jesus who suffered and died for your sins and mine. But this is not the end of the Story; It's the beginning. He is Risen! He is coming a second time soon and His reward is with Him. Revelation 22:12
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