The Plumbline

You who love the Lord, hate evil!  He protects the lives of his godly people and rescues them from the power of the wicked. Light shines on the godly, and joy on those whose hearts are right.  May all who are godly rejoice in the Lord and praise his holy name! (Psalm 97:10-12 NLT) Aldous Huxley said, " Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored ." Many try to ignore the fact of God's existence, his power displayed in the wonders of nature, and even the evidence of a divine creator in the incredible complexity of one human cell. I might be able to ignore the speed limit sign, sailing down the highway at a tremendously fast speed, but it doesn't make the fact I am going faster than is designated! I can deny I have a problem with a particular habit or hang-up, but eventually that habit or hang-up will reveal itself in some form within or through my life - it doesn't cease to exist because of my denial. As much as we cannot deny the evidence of t...

From all we can read in scripture, we see that man is made up of body, soul, and spirit. Our body is the easy one - we see and feel that all the time. The soul and spirit are a little harder to understand because they are things we know exist, but aren't as "tangible" as the body is. Spirit give us our drive; without it, we'd kind of be "dulled" to the world around us. Soul is made up of three separate parts: Mind, Will and Emotions. Mind is more than thought - it is where we kind of "commune with" thought - sometimes it is a Plato put it: "Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself." You combine all the "soul talk" with a will that wants to go one way and not the other, or a bundle of emotions constantly giving you fits and starts in this direction or the other, and you have a mess of issues!   11  Therefore, let’s make every effort to enter that rest so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience, ...