"23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
To the Greeks, it painted a picture of a man shooting an arrow but missing the bulls eye. They would say to that person who missed the mark that they have "sinned."
How do we view sin? Usually in a "RELIGIOUS" context, right? But that's not how God sees it. He sees it simply as "missing the mark." For instance: Let's say you are depressed for some reason. Your mind, your thinking "falls short" of the glory of what God's word says about you. His word says you are "beloved of Him, blessed and highly favored, full of His Shalom, wisdom and discernment." He says you have the mind of Christ!
The Bible says that God does not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of SOUND MIND. Depression is not the characteristic of a sound mind. Confess, instead, what God's word says about you!
Let's face it: Humans are basically negative. We constantly need to reprogram our brains to align with God's positive word daily.....hourly.....sometimes minute by minute so that we don’t become like the picture of the cartoon character that goes around with a thunder cloud over his head.
Our brains have a left and a right side. Left is more logical; right is the creative side. For those who are under that dark cloud, their left side has nothing "right" in it and their right side has nothing "left" in it, so to speak.
Science tells us that we only use about 1/10 of our brain capacity because of the glory of God that man lost in the fall. Folks, we were robbed of 9/10 of our brain!
So, the brain power and potential of someone who has received the Holy Spirit, in other words they are born again, has been "super-sized." God restored to us the other 9/10ths! That's way better than supersized fries at McDonalds. Christ in us really, truly is "the hope of glory!" HALLELUUA!
You can also "come short of the glory of God" in your body if you are sick all the time. That is also not God's will for us! "Sin" isn't only lying, cheating, stealing, murdering, all that kind of thing. It is simply " missing the mark" of what God says you already are, what you already have in Christ Jesus because of what He did for us at Calvary. He PAID IN FULL the price for your COMPLETE SHALOM.
Jesus came to redeem us from the total fallen state created by Adam when he fell and death passed to all of us. He redeemed us from our "SIN--our falling short; our lacking of; our forfeiting of the glory of God." His death bought back our forfeited inheritance; our complete SHALOM!
As the world outside the church sinks deeper and deeper into spiritual darkness, as indicated in Isaiah 60:2, God's people shine brighter and brighter, especially as truths like these are restored to her.
There's no sense fighting the darkness. There isn't any need to. It will work for us and show forth the Glory of the Lord that is already upon us, even though we are not perfect and we often are "Missing the Mark."
How do we view sin? Usually in a "RELIGIOUS" context, right? But that's not how God sees it. He sees it simply as "missing the mark." For instance: Let's say you are depressed for some reason. Your mind, your thinking "falls short" of the glory of what God's word says about you. His word says you are "beloved of Him, blessed and highly favored, full of His Shalom, wisdom and discernment." He says you have the mind of Christ!
The Bible says that God does not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of SOUND MIND. Depression is not the characteristic of a sound mind. Confess, instead, what God's word says about you!
Let's face it: Humans are basically negative. We constantly need to reprogram our brains to align with God's positive word daily.....hourly.....sometimes minute by minute so that we don’t become like the picture of the cartoon character that goes around with a thunder cloud over his head.
Science tells us that we only use about 1/10 of our brain capacity because of the glory of God that man lost in the fall. Folks, we were robbed of 9/10 of our brain!
Isn't it interesting that God gave us "NINE" gifts of The Holy Spirit? Hmmm.......He gave us back what we lost!
So, the brain power and potential of someone who has received the Holy Spirit, in other words they are born again, has been "super-sized." God restored to us the other 9/10ths! That's way better than supersized fries at McDonalds. Christ in us really, truly is "the hope of glory!" HALLELUUA!
You can also "come short of the glory of God" in your body if you are sick all the time. That is also not God's will for us! "Sin" isn't only lying, cheating, stealing, murdering, all that kind of thing. It is simply " missing the mark" of what God says you already are, what you already have in Christ Jesus because of what He did for us at Calvary. He PAID IN FULL the price for your COMPLETE SHALOM.
The definition of Shalom, according to Strong's Concordance, is "completeness, wholeness, HEALTH, peace, welfare, safety, soundness, tranquility, PROSPERITY. Yes, that includes, but is not limited to, finances. It is also perfectness, fullness, rest, harmony, the absence of agitation or discord. It comes from the root verb "shalom" meaning to be complete, perfect and full. In modern Hebrew the obviously related word "shelem" means "to pay for;" and Shulam which means "to be fully paid."
Jesus came to redeem us from the total fallen state created by Adam when he fell and death passed to all of us. He redeemed us from our "SIN--our falling short; our lacking of; our forfeiting of the glory of God." His death bought back our forfeited inheritance; our complete SHALOM!
As the world outside the church sinks deeper and deeper into spiritual darkness, as indicated in Isaiah 60:2, God's people shine brighter and brighter, especially as truths like these are restored to her.
There's no sense fighting the darkness. There isn't any need to. It will work for us and show forth the Glory of the Lord that is already upon us, even though we are not perfect and we often are "Missing the Mark."
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