Avoiding Confusion
Welcome to this new day that brings with it new opportunities! It’s Tuesday and I am so glad to have this time with you to encourage your joy!
Yesterday I mentioned my new old truck that I am very grateful to have and truly enjoy driving. I mentioned how I am still learning all the things it is capable of doing. Fortunately the truck was well kept and the owners manual and instructions were in the glove box. You see when I looked up the truck online for what it offers it listed a lot of things that sounded wonderful. It will do all that it says it will do.
For instance: It will connect with my iPhone by means of bluetooth. It is advertised as being bluetooth compatible for hands free driving. It does connect, but I had to go to the owners manual to find out how to connect my phone so that it will work whenever I get in the truck. I was not allowed to insist it do it my way and expect the truck to work. I had to do it the way Ford set it up.
Now here’s the thing I wish to point out today. If I had gone to the section regarding how to find and change a fuze that would not have helped me at all with how to connect my phone. It would be be good information to know, but out of context and therefore no help to me. To experience success I had to go to right place and get the right information and then follow what it said.
Likewise, we are now in a New Covenant and if we go to the Bible and research Old Covenant ways for handling things or staying connected with God, we will be out of context and becoming more and more confused due to trying to apply of out of context solutions.
It’s like reversing the wires on a speaker, it might still put out some sound but not as clear and not as powerful as getting it wired correctly. When we apply the solutions from an obsolete covenant to our New Covenant lives we put ourselves out of phase so to speak and though they may seem to work somewhat for a short amount of time we eventually become confused about what we think God to be like. I encourage you to immerse yourself in the good news of the New Covenant and experience the reliable result of fellowship with God it can produce in your life. Do it His way and joy will fill your heart and soul.
