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Bruised Reed and Dimly Burning Wick

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Calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” Luke 7:19 Doubt is not Unbelief Many times when we are down trodden, beaten, worn out, and confused, doubt seeps into our thoughts. Just like any other sin, we don’t want to doubt, yet we find ourselves doubting over and over again. Doubt is part of the law at work in us, waging war against the confidence and trust that we have in God, bringing us into captivity by the law of sin which is at work within us.   Romans 7:23       Yes, we know doubt is a sin, but how do we identify this sin which seems to have full dominion over us?   From a biblical perspective we must be careful in defining doubt, Doubt is not unbelief, unbelief is a lack of faith, the mindset of someone that does not want to trust God. So unbelief is an unwillingness to trust God while doubt is a weakness in trusting God. The two a...

Am I my brother's keeper?

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And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.   And the   Lord   said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?  And he said , What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground . ( Genesis 4:8-10 ) ) What we can learn from a Homeless Man Scripture above records a very perverted account of a relationship between two brothers. And depending on how we perceive the scripture to interpret brotherhood,  we may very well be playing out  this murder of our brothers over and over again.  The thing that metaphysically calls us Cains is our  defining of the word brother.  How we answer the question  " Who is my brother? " makes a different in the level of hypocrisy in which we walk out our Christian faith.  Do we limit brotherhood to those ...

The Dichotomy of Judgment and Love

This is part one of a three part series on judgment.    The Dichotomy of Judgment and Love. A dichotomy is a division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory parts. This does not mean two things which are opposite. For instance the opposite of religion in non-religion, but its dichotomy is secular. In the same way the opposite of natural is unnatural, but it dichotomy is supernatural. We see in that it is natural for person to be born with two eyes, two legs etc. It is unnatural for a child to be born with only one arm, or one leg, or one eye. Thus it is Supernatural when the child born with only one of his legs grown the second after prayer and supplication. Understand this Juvenal explanation is only given to show the difference between the usage of opposite as opposed to the usage of dichotomy. A dichotomy can also exist in the attributes of an person. Consider one of the most common dichotomies but seldom ever addressed is the dichotomy of ...