#2 We are in a 5 part series on Understanding, this lesson is
A LESSON UNDERSTANDING MODELS.
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr.
Kyfingers@aol.com
TEXT:
Gal 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
1 Cor 14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to battle?
I am again pondering:
we need to understand the need of spiritual models to be an example,
not a judge!
Gal 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
When I was a school teacher, I taught my students to watch for the word IF
in writing, as it should be identified as a trigger word of possibility.
Therefore catch the possibilities here listed..
it is possible to faint in weariness or to thrive in opportunity.
There is a spirit of error that would infest Christian workers,
if we allow our choices to so take us to some areas.
We can develop a love for popularity, trophies and applause.
We grow a spirit of error in feeling and wanting to see what I have done or the need to see what God has done.
May I identify this as a spirit of error and not offend anyone?
We walk by FAITH!
People are watching you.
Please listen, my fellow workers.....
we go through seasons, we must understand and learn to identify seasons...
plus real wisdom not only identifies spiritual seasons but prepares for the up coming seasons.
The ant and the grasshopper story.
(Prov 6:6)
Few ever discipline their heart for preparation for up coming seasons.
My neighbor heats with wood, in the hot part of summer, I can hear the chain saw buzzing, for he knows winter is coming.
How wise would we be to see in our emotions winter coming, and to prepare in the word. I
f we can’t see the little picture of today’s plan, who will prepare by faith for the picture of seasons ahead?
1 Cor 14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to battle?
Few prepare for battle; for we forget we are in a war.
Some teach that we modern Christians shall be exempt from the storms and trials that Elijah, Moses and others faced.
So we expect the easy road?
What about the best road?
Nothing in life creates more deep seated anxieties than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties and problems.
Let me first establish, problems within themself will not necessarily make you weak or strong.....
problems and obstacles will just show if you are strong, or if you are weak.
We don’t want to fight the good fight, .. is this wisdom?
Psa 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: TRY ME, and know my thoughts.
Patience with self/others is a requirement to please God, if we want to be perfect and entire? What are our goals?
James 1:2 Count it all JOY...when? When we have hard test?
How can we do this? vs 2) When we see tests have a purpose / a plan.
A teacher is not mean when he tests his students?
No, he is preparing them.
Testing and patience are modern day bad words!
Luke 21: 19 In your patience possess ye your souls. How’s that for an unpopular verse?
James 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work....(there is a plan behind every test) --- that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Wanting nothing?
The Lord is my shepherd I shall not WANT.
Many think God is A SANTA CLAUS TO MEET OUR DEMANDS RIGHT NOW.
I know a fat person that prays for a parking place near the mall doors, and she gets mad at God when He doesn’t answer. She will take a handicapped place if needed, she should be parking way out and walking for exercise.
How many fat Christians are looking for God to open easy ways and not the BEST way? God give us the best way!
Often pastors tire of humanness and weaknesses in growing saints, and then we practice spiritual abortion, and we call this growth?
Problems are often circular, we face the same thing over and over. God can still deliver.
Why does a baby learn to walk?
As a baby crawls, his knees get sore, an adult walks by with less effort and much more speed, and the baby thinks ... this crawling is not all it is cracked up to be.. that walking sure beats this.
If a baby never sees anyone walk, he will crawl all his life. There are models for the baby to follow.
Where are the spiritual models that will work and show others?
Some baby’s learn at 9 months, a real good crawler is usually slower to walk.
This is true in the church, some have greater distances and obstacles and traditions to break than others.
Do we kill the son that is not walking by 12 months?
No, we hold their hand more, to teach them trust.
My Mom would put a clothes pen in the hand of the baby and hold to the clothes pen, then after trust in the clothes pen, she would let go of the pen, and the baby would walk thinking there was security there.
God, give us some spiritual leaders that will have patience with all, especially the slower to develop.
Sometimes we need understanding, the front pack of easy learners tend to run off and leave the slow ones to become dwarfs or midgets -- spiritual throw aways.
Again, back to school teacher days, sometimes the slower learner would finally grasp the ideal and would hold on to the lesson longer than the quick, apparently smarter student.
Doctor Laura says the super smart people do little in life, the ball of life is pushed by just average people staying and pecking away at the menial.
Many of the great people in life were slow to develop. President Grover Cleveland couldn’t read until he was 10 to 11 years old. Stupid?
Harlan Sanders was a failure at 63 and started cooking chicken, and now is known around the world. Harlan Sanders gave a million dollars to the college where I graduated in 1974. I shook hands with him.
See, we need a model to follow, as Paul was to the Christians of his day. Do you understand the role of spiritual models in the church?
His servant,
Wade Martin Hughes, Sr.
Kyfingers@aol.com
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