Our immediate question to
answer is, “What is the Principled Life?”
Life implies some living is
going on! It also implies some one is
doing the living. For our purpose, let
us say it is me doing the living!
Principles are guide lines
for the way I live my life. The source
from which the principles are derived is most important. They may be God centered or man
centered. If they are man centered, they
will be conditioned. The effort is made
to expunge our guilt nature because we have a sin nature. The Hope is, if we can balance our Good and
Bad deeds, tipping the scale in favor to the good side, then we are
alright.
This should be acceptable to me
and make me feel good about myself. This principle allows me to feel better if
I have much more good than bad. A person
who is wrong in both heart and head could still appear to be good using this
principle. It could take on the
appearance of being Spiritual.
Being man centered starts
with man, continues with man and ends with man.
In today’s world, it is most acceptable.
Many times it appears to be better than being God centered. The reasons for this are; it is more
liberal. The old rule, “I’m OK You’re
OK” applies!
When standards are violated,
blame is automatically shifted from the offender to society if at all possible.
When this is not viable, then prescribed penalties are minimized almost out of
existence. This makes us feel good. If we enforce the rules, then we feel bad
about our self, and this penalizes us, so we do what is necessary to feel
good.
Man centeredness is extremely
politically controlled. Scholastically
control and economically controlled.
These are the Big Three, all other controls are a by product of
these. They use many tools such as Raw
power (conform or else). Media; here we
are told what to think and believe. Ridiculed,
unless you conform to the Spirit of the World you are unacceptable. The Plan of man centeredness is to allow no
one to escape its power!
When anyone would suggest
that the force behind this is Spiritual, the Master Mind Satan himself, they
are ridiculed and attacked viciously.
All the tools are brought into play.
So what do we do? It seems to be easier to just conform, join
the crowd and become of the number. Or do we realize there is a better way, not
an easier way, at least on the surface!
There is a different
way. It is called “The New and Living Way
In it God is held as being
most important. His wishes are our
command. His goals are our highest
purpose.
To conform my life to a God
Principled life, I must find the starting place which is with God Himself. Everything I am or do is a product of Faith
in something
So to start building a God
principled life, I start with the revelation of God. The Bible contains all I need to know! In it there is an explanation of who God is,
what he does, why he does it. Of man’s
relationship with Him. The problems that
need to be overcome. In other words;
God’s remedy for man’s dilemma.
“God IS,” is another way of
saying “I AM”. While “I AM” speaks of
the totality of God, “God is” also includes the access and availability of God
to man! This is why I can say, I AM,
because “God is”. (If God wasn’t, I
wouldn’t be) So I am because “He is.”
Because He is “The Great I AM” everything is of Him. Everyone is debtor to Him. I have a debt that I owed, which I could not
pay. Only God could pay my debt. This he did in Christ Jesus! God wrote across my debt; “Redeemed by the
Blood of the Lamb” By this act, God
freed me from all that held me in Bondage of every kind and loudly proclaimed;
This is the way, walk ye in it.”
The God Principled way – my God
centered life, starts each day with the knowledge that he is worthy of
satisfaction with my life this day. My
goal is to always do those things which are pleasing to him, this day!
I study His principles that
are to govern my life. Neither individuals
or groups or experiences can detour me from this purpose.
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