I have recently learned that sometimes God will use disappointments, disagreements, and circumstances to humble, teach, or prepare for us the next opportunity He has prepared for us in advance to do.
This is a hard discipline to practice. During our trials or test of faith do we remember to leave room for God and His grace to use those as teachable moments?
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me” John 10:27.
The best coaches build opportunities for character education into their program, creating, recognizing and capitalizing on teachable moments. They think about the following questions when it comes to their players:
When you fail, will you repent, and try again through Christ?
- Do you have the character necessary to persist?
- Will you be committed to glorifying God better?
- In life our character is constantly tested. The endless procession of teachable moments are available in God's Word. Responsible Christians who constantly use God's Word will find life lessons about persistence, teamwork, sacrifice, effort, empathy, discipline, leadership and overcoming adversity.
The term “sola Scriptura” or “the Bible alone” is a short phrase that represents the simple truth that there is only one special revelation from God that man possesses today, the written Scriptures or the Bible. Scripture states this concept repeatedly and emphatically. The very phrase “It is written” means exclusively transcribed, and not hearsay. The command to believe what is written means to believe only the pure word of God. What is at stake before the All Holy God is His incorruptible truth.
In the very last commandment in the Bible God resolutely tells us not to add to nor take away from His Word.
“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book: If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book”
—Revelation 22:18-19
His Word is absolutely sufficient in itself (Psalm 119:160).
The events, actions, commandments, and truths from God are given to us in propositional form, i.e. logical, written sentences. God’s declaration in Scripture is that it and it alone, is this final authority in all matters of faith and morals.
Thus, there is only one written source from God, and there is only one basis of truth for the Lord’s people in the His Church.
Stay in God's Word!
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