Our Perishing Compass.
Questions to consider.
- Why do you do what you do?
- Who are you?
- What are you?
- Who/ what do you want to be?
- Where are you going?
- if you were to compare what you do outwardly, with what you wanted to do inwardly, is there a difference?
So I repeat # 2 who are you?
Surprising answers!
1. When we take action, out of a sense of duty. That’s being responsible.
2. When we persist in our course of action, against opposition or opportunity, that commitment.
3. When we take action out of fear of consequences or threats, that’s coercion.
4. When we chose our course of action because of genuine noble compassion, that’s love
5. If we make decision based on what other people are doing, that peer pressure.
6. If we act out of an elevated sense of obligation, that’s entrapment.
7. If we make our decisions based on our personal choices. That’s freedom.
8. If our choices are opposed or threatened, and we maintain our position, that’s character.
9. When we respond according to what we have learned, that’s training.
10. If our choices are circumstantially motivated, that’s lack of virtue.
11. When are decisions are experimental, that’s normal.
12. When our decision is to gain approval, that’s deception.
13. When we endure the wrong decision of others. That’s patients.
14. When our decisions are sincere, but faulty, that humanness.
15. When we choose to do wrong. That’s compromise.
16. When we follow our own passions. That’s worldliness.
17. When we refuse to change for the better, that’s Rebellion.
18. When we refuse instruction, that’s rejection
19. Rebellion, rejection and destruction are identical triplet brothers.
20. When we act out of divine guidance, that’s faith.
21. When we act out of unbiblical inspiration, that’s Foolishness
22. When our actions reflect an inward sense of elation, that’s zeal
23. When our decisions are cold and unwise, that’s legalism.
24. If our decisions are self centered, that’s selfishness.
25. Choices that are made for recognition is pride.
26 When right choices are made that will never be seen, that’s integrity.
27. When we suffer mentally for past actions. That’s guilt.
28. When we stay true, contrary to opportunity, that loyalty.
29. When we stay true, contrary to temptation, that’s faithfulness.
30. When we stay true, contrary to convenience, that’s consistency.
31. When others follow our example, that’s influence.
32. When we face the eternal consequences, that’s Judgment.
33. When God loves us despite our selves, that’s miraculous.
34. To weigh the results and make a decision, that’s choice.
35. When we understand our helpless conditions. That’s humility.
36. When we cry out to God for help, that’s prayer.
37. When we follow Gods leading that is contrary to our own, that’s obedience.
38. When we overcome ourselves. That’s victory.
39. If we don’t trust, that’s unbelief.
40. When we return to give thanks. That gratitude!
41. When we force our opinions on others, that’s cultish.
42. If we expect others to conform to our expectations, that’s controlling.
43. When we manipulate others, that’s deceitful control.
44. If we walk in darkness, that’s makes us a sinner.
45. If we walk against light, that’s wickedness.
46. If we walk in the light, that’s Christianity.
Pro_20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
This verse tells us, that when God wants to evaluate you, to see what your made of , he doesn’t look up you file at the IRS, or the church records. He doesn’t even check the court records. God examines your spirit! What spirit are you of? This tells God everything he needs to know about you!
1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
1Co 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
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