I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. Psalm 32:8
There are so many believers who do not have confidence in God. And this can be said to be true by the way they perceive and treat the very word of God.
We live in a society where people confuse the word for laws and as such finds it very difficult to live by its principles.
One of the greatest challenges of most present day believers is that they see the word of God as more of a restriction than it is a liberty and directives from Him on how to walk with Him.
This truth can be said to be responsible for the lack of influence most of us as believers have over our immediate family members and fellow neighbors.
Somehow, we have been able to convince ourselves that by classifying the very word of God as a law, by selecting which part of it to believe and which not to believe we would become relevant to the people around us who are of different faith and to the world at large.
Again this sounds to me as a contradiction. We have become a hindrance to the very purpose for which we’ve been called, separated by God.
According 1 Peter 2:9, the believer is called out... to show forth His light....
By implication this simply means we cannot be of value and relevance to the world we live in as believers if we do not regard the word as God's directives.
We cannot be a light to a world full of darkness unless we are committed to remain the light we have be called to be.
As believers, an attempt to remove our saltiness in order to become relevant to a tasteless society is to make ourselves useless just like the tasteless society before God.
The ability of any believer to effect change and add value to his/her society is linked to his /her readiness to accept the word as God's directives on how to walk with Him.
Like the Psalmist put it in Psalm 119:105; Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path. A path taken outside the directives of God is a path traded in darkness.
Friends none of us has within us the ability to lead a life void of darkness outside the perimeters of God's directives.
God's word is more of a directive on how to walk with Him than it would ever be a law book that we must obey in order to please Him.
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