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Looking Away Toward Jesus

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Psalm 36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. More times then not men and women who truly love God seek Holiness by their own hands. They say to themselves “Because I love God I must stop (whatever sin they have) and give my life totally to God.” And this is a very honorable desire to give your life for God totally. The problem arise in the misconception that we can consecrate ourselves to God.  in our own strength. Anyone that has tried to rightly and failed know the frustration of self consecration. One step of self-consecration is called introspective. With introspective we survey all the events of our day keeping what we think is of God and letting go of the things which are not, vowing to repent from the sins of that day. The problem with this method is that we leave the knowledge of good and bad to be discerned by our own heart and mind. But P salm 19:12 asks “ Who can discern his errors ” not one of us, because eve...