Why Me

Psalm 50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

This series I just completed was needful for me to write. Why me? Because God has given me a voice and talents and gifts and purpose. He did all that for me to glorify Him, not myself. Love compels me to be silent no longer.

For me this day, the meaning of reprove in this opening verse is defined as convicted. I have been indulgent upon myself, my own concerns, my own woes, and the Lord has convicted me that I have not done all that is required of me. I have not glorified God to the extent worthy of all that He has performed in me.

What He has set before me, I present to you, to glorify God in your innermost parts, in that private place, with the Spirit which abides in you. What that does for you is beyond me to see. That is between you and He who abides with you.

I can only report that which is given, without exaggeration, without personalization, without touching it with my own weaknesses. Let God be glorified.

This has been set in order before your eyes. What you make of it, what you do with it, let it be to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 9:12-14 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men; And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.

Why Now

Hebrews 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

Some might ask why I am reviewing the fundamentals of this life with Christ. I found it convenient to do so because one I know who is of full age was found to be weak in the foundational truths.

When he said, “God didn’t know what Adam would do.”; He accused God of not knowing what He was doing. This flies in the face of everything I know about God.

Jeremiah 1:5a,b Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee,

2 Samuel 7:21 For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.

Jeremiah 17:9-10 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

So if a man of so much learning, studies and meditations could be so wrong, then age and experience are not indicators of foundational relationship. It does not matter what you know or think if you do not have the relationship.

Yes he has works, but were they authored by God?

Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Revelation 2:2-3 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

For His names sake.

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