If Knowing God is Our Purpose, What is Keeping Us From Doing It?

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? Beliefs are caught, not taught, and we are often not aware that much of what we believe contradicts something else we 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

We often live according to the belief that our temperament is who or what we are. But our temperament, the way God put our soul together, is not the basis upon which He evaluates us. In fact, most often our temperament, because of our misbeliefs, is our greatest hindrance because it provides a means to excuse the flesh. Our goal for freedom is not so that our temperament can be free, but so that He can be free, unhindered by our temperament. Before our soul (our temperament) can be fully available for the Lord to flow through, it must become unencumbered by the flesh.

Not Understanding How God Uses Circumstances Hinders Our Purpose Now

God often allows things to go wrong in our lives to reveal that what we are believing is a lie. If we don’t understand this, and then learn to listen for His voice, we miss out on learning to know Him in the practical areas of our lives.

Our Flesh Hinders Our Purpose Now

Flesh is getting our God-given needs met outside of dependence on God alone. If we don’t understand what our personal flesh patterns are, and how flesh develops, it will continue to develop and interfere with the learning process. As we begin to understand our new nature, and that all of our needs are met already, we will cooperate with God as He consumes our flesh.