How Do I Make a Change, or Set the
Setting Different?
Written by Caroline Lanette Alderson
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John 8:32 |
And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will SET or MAKE you free. |
The Word of God will SET or MAKE you free when
you pour that Word into you. I have
been thinking of the word set; what does set mean? I looked up the word set in dictionary.com and wow; it was very
clearly defined. There were too many to
list here in fact. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=set What I was thinking was the thermostat
control on my a/c and how it is set. It
is set generally at 82 degrees F – 28 C.
I made note that it stays where I set it, not moving up or down, or in
the case of the Word, left or right.
What if I wanted to “make a change”?
I would have to “change the setting” wouldn’t I? I turn the setting down to 76 F to make it
cooler, and now the thermostat will be SET at that setting and will not move
from that spot until I change or set it different. Inside us has been a setting set by SIN. Sin controlled us and set us on our
behavior. What if I don’t like the
setting that Sin made for me? How do I set
it to something else? How do I CHANGE
my behavior? How do I stop a sin that
won’t seem to stop? How do I now become
godly after serving and being a slave to Sin.
How do I change the setting? How
do I SET it different? I keep saying
this differently, because I want to grab your conscience and your mind so you
can understand what it is I am saying.
(I have merely capped sin to draw the attention of my readers, not to
give it any kind of prominence.)
The Word of God being poured into our hearts will
literally change us. The Word will
ALTER our minds. They talk about mind
altering drugs; well I like the mind altering Word of the Living God. His Word will alter and change, and set my
mind to act, and think and speak differently.
James 1:21 … welcome the Word which implanted
and rooted in your hearts contains the power within itself to save your soul.
Let the Word come into your spirit, by
feasting and meditating on it. The Word
will become engrafted into your heart or your spirit, and your mind, and will
change your will, and clean your emotions.
James 1:22 Be ye doers of the Word, [obey what
you hear] not being merely listeners to it…
Soak your mind with the Word of God, by
listening to Preachers, and by reading the Word for yourself, and by reading
articles and books teaching the Word.
The Word has the power to change your thinking. The Word has the power to deliver you from
fear. The Word has the power when you
soak your emotions in it, to cast out depression. The Word will change our will even, to cause us to want to obey,
and do the will of the Word. Jesus is
the Word. So, when we obey Jesus, we
are obeying His Word.
Don’t think inside of yourself; think inside
of the Word of God. When the Word of
God corrects me, instead of getting down and depressed, and saying, oh mannn I
am soo bad. I don’t do that. See, when God corrects me with His Word, He
corrects me because He loves me so very, very much. When He corrects me, it let’s me know how much He loves me. It’s not a put down to be corrected. God only corrects His own. It’s ownership. He shows me I am His; He shows me I belong to Him, not the enemy,
when He corrects me. His correction is
uplifting, and edifying. He seeks to
build me up, never to crush me, and tear me down. He never condemns me with correction.
God never uses the devil to teach me a
lesson. He never says, hey, I need two
devils to come up here. I have an
assignment for them. I need to send
them out to teach this person a lesson.
We are running short up here on angels.
God does not need any help from His enemy to teach His own
children. Would you as a parent go out
and grab a gang member, and say, I need you to rough up my son, and teach him a
lesson. He is getting out of line. No, you would never do that. You would teach him yourself the correct way
to act. And, what is the best way a
parent can teach a child? By example. Right?
God teaches us by example. If He
were to abuse me, then what kind of example would that be for me, since the
Word says, I am to copy, or imitate Him as dear children. Eph 5:1
