If Change is God’s Responsibility, Is There Anything WE Do?

Well, yes and no. We can learn to actively rest. To get to that state of rest, God will teach us how to truly repent, renew our minds and submit our beliefs, until we believe what He says about us. We will then trust Him because we have experienced His love for us, not because of the strength or nature of our beliefs.

His life in us becomes our reality. We become blind to our surroundings and our own desires, and deaf to the cries of the needs within and the needy without, to the point that all we know is what He tells us, and only respond to His will, joyfully and with His power and authority. This will require turning a deaf ear, and shutting our eyes to what we have learned about God and how we fit into what He is doing.

Our thinking, feeling and choosing all need to be reconciled, brought into alignment, with the Truth — what God says is true. Just because you believe something is true doesn’t make it true. Test it! A fact is anything someone can get you to believe. What is from God will stand up to all scrutiny. We must learn to trust the Lord to lead us into all truth more than we trust the world, the flesh and the devil to lead us into deception.

Misconceptions About Who We Are, Who God Is and What He Is Doing Hinder Our Purpose Now

Do you know why you believe what you believe? God wants us to know His ways, how He does things, how He feels about us, and how He works on our behalf. Taking another’s explanation for this hinders God from revealing the truth to us directly.

Knowing Ourselves According To Our Temperament Hinders Our Purpose Now

Our temperament, the way God put our soul together, is not the basis upon which He evaluates us. Our goal for freedom is not so that our temperament can be free, but so that He can be free, unhindered by our temperament.