Being Successful Did God Really Say?

Being Successful

Did God Really Say?

To be successful in life you must know what God says.

The Serpent in the Garden said to Eve…

“Did God really say,”

So let me make it simple.

Eve’s perspective changed as she believed a lie.

It is only the truth that will set us free.

Because there is a way that seems right to a man

and then destruction, we need to say…

“Test me, LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind.”

Our perspective will always be our glasses in a dark world

but that does not make what we see the truth.

Let the Word of the Lord be a lamp

unto your feet and a light to your path.  

To be successful in life you must know what God says.

The Serpent in the Garden said to Eve…

“Did God really say, ‘You must not

eat from any tree in the garden’?”

Eve responded with the right answer…

“We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say,

‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden,

and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”

The Serpent boldly called God a liar…

“You will not certainly die,” 

“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened,

and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

It is at this point the woman’s perspective changed…

“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye,

 and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. 

She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.”

For decades there has been a movement that says

there is no right or wrong “perspective”.

It is true our perspective is shaped by the way we view things.

Eve’s view of the Tree of Knowledge and God changed.

Her view was influenced by the Serpent’s words.

The movement that says perspective is neither right or wrong,

is a movement to protect personal perspective.

The end of this type of movement ends

like it did in the Book of Judges.

“In those days there was no king in Israel,

but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”

When there is no government, or rule, everyone

will do what is right according to their perspective.

Your perspective and the perspective of others is important.

But our view is obstructed.

This same movement that says there is no right or wrong perspective

also says there is no absolute truth, our perspective is our reality.

   

This movement makes life very complicated as it tries

to justify everyone’s thinking the way they view life.

Your perspective may seem right in your

own eyes and everyone is entitled to it.

People’s perspective can be well informed or little information,

our lenses can be clear or blurry, painful or joyful.

The “conclusions” we draw form our

“perspective” can certainly be inaccurate.

Although I should respect other’s perspective,

the way they draw their conclusions.

“Conclusions” based on perspectives are the things

that need shaping, molding, disciplining and cleaned up. 

The vast differences based on each person’s perspective

will keep us divided if we focus on each other’s perspective.

Perspective does not equal truth.

Conclusions help to prove this point.

So let me make it simple.

Eve’s perspective changed as she believed a lie.

It is only the truth that will set us free.

Because there is a way that seems right to

a man and then destruction we need to say…

“Test me, LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind.”

Our perspective will always be our glasses in a dark

world but that does not make what we see the truth.

Let the Word of the Lord be a lamp

unto your feet and a light to your path.  

Scripture Reading

Genesis 3:1-7

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Psalms 26:2-3

Test me, LORD, and try me,

examine my heart and my mind;

3 for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love

and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness.

Psalms 119:105

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.