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Friday, December 26, 2014

Does God Have Opinions? If So, What Is God's opinion?


The most arrogant thing that a person can do is mock the LORD and put their own opinions above God's Word.   God resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.  It is in our pride that the fool says in his heart there is no God.   We are living in a time when man in his arrogance dismisses God, and whatever he cannot explain he dismisses and attacks.  We are living in a day and time when mankind wants to give everyone a voice except for God.  If someone stands up and spouts out the most absurd ideas and opinions everyone applauds, because personal opinions are the gods that we as Americans serve.   And each human has an opinion, so that they live their life by their own opinion, answering only to themselves, in fact we have made ourselves the god that we follow.  And in our modern society, if you 'push' your opinion on others that is considered the ultimate sin.

What we fail to understand in our society is that God's Word is not an opinion, but is God's gift to mankind.  What gift is that?  He had the truth written into the Bible so that we wouldn't have to be lost through the ages, each of us trying to find the truth on our own, forming opinions to live by.  You only have one life to live.  If you live by your own opinions, in your own wisdom, and those ways turn out to be destructive, you have DESTOYED yourself. 

The Bible says there is a way that seems right unto a man but in the end it is destruction. 

We make our opinions the word that we live by, and our opinions fail us.  Each of us have seen people spouting on facebook their 'almighty' opinion, and we have shook our heads knowing that their opinion was going to bring them nothing but stupidity and heart ache.   Yet, we think that a persons opinion is omnipotent.  That it is there life, their opinion, their choice to be an idiot, to do things to destroy our lives.   It is time to get some wisdom about us and realize that the Bible has stood the test of time, and God has promised that those who build their lives upon what it says is like a wise man who built his house upon a rock.  The trials of life, the storms, the issues and the problems rain upon it, but their lives stand firm, while those who build their lives upon the sand.  FALL.  Pride is the source of our opinions, but God resist the proud.  God doesn't have an opinion, God only speaks truth.  An opinion is a theory, but God's Word is more than an opinion, God's Word is truth.  An opinion changes with circumstance and time and experience.  God has already seen all, and knows all, and been through all.  He no longer has opinion, His Word is truth and life.  His Word does NOT change, it stands the test of time and is always stable.  God's Word never fails. 

What are opinions?  Opinions are things that change with the passing of time, they are shifting.  Shifting like sand.  The Bible says that if we do not build our lives upon the Word of God we are like the foolish man that built his life upon the sand.  Our opinions are the sands of life, shifting, changing, not stable.  When the rains come, and the trials of life happen, and the issues arise, our lives then fall apart, because it was built on opinions instead of on the truth of God's Word. 

When we
Isaiah 2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled,
The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

12 For the day of the Lord of hosts
Shall come upon everything proud and lofty,
Upon everything lifted up—
And it shall be brought low—
 
On the day of God's judgment, our opinions won't mean anything, will carry no weight, but they will be the quote:  'noose around our necks."
 

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