Skip to main content

Tempting God

A good review and reminder of what I know and have preached (several times) in the past about tempting God from Matthew 4:7.

To tempt God is to conduct an undue and unwarranted trial of God, concerning His power, goodness and greatness, from a position of unbelief and a demand from distrust, questioning the presence of God until see a supernatural proof of it.

Throwing yourself  into voluntary and uncommanded dangers, then appealing to God for protection or trifling with His promises about His assistance in times of danger is a big NO NO.

God aids His people who are placed by Him in trials and dangers and NOT those who do so unwisely or purposefully especially in order to tempt Him or prove Him and His Word.

If there are stairs in a building you can take to go down, casting yourself from the top of the building because God has promised to protect you is presumption not faith, tempting God not trusting Him.

"Do not question whether God will save you from dangers which you have entered uncalled."

This verse also shows how a Bible verse can be twisted to result in danger to oneself (not to mention displease God) and how this mispracticed can be remedied.

Scriptura per Scripturam interpretanda et concilianda. The promise you quote must be explained by another passage of Scripture. "Neither may it (the Church) so expound one place of Scripture that it be repugnant to another." - Bengel

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Understanding Church Trauma

Christian  communities are expected to be our safest emotional and physical spaces. Even so, there are times this sacred space become toxic, abusive, and traumatizing to a church member when leaders and members of a congregation exhibit actions that fail to reflect the love of God. In the infographic below, four common ways church trauma is caused is identified and explained. I hope the information will help you understand what has happened to you or someone you know in church (or now no longer in the Christian community). The purpose of this post is to promote healing among those traumatized and to highlight practices that need to stop so that a Christian community is restored once again as the safest  emotional and physical space for any child of God. As you continue educating yourself on church trauma and abuse, it’s important to remember that you are not alone. If you need to, seek a mental health professional to help you better understand your condition its impact on your...
Post a Comment
Read more

What to do now?

My takeaway after meditating on Jesus' words in Matthew 3:15 What is proper to do now may demand a reversal of roles or doing things differently. It may also be temporary. Now determines who does what. But what to do now ? Do whatsoever is just, fit, requisite in our circumstances. "Observe every divine appointment and honor every divine ordinance" even if you feel unworthy and awkward. As a result, one necessary (required) act in obedience will result in the doer and the recipient being blessed and benefiting richly.
Post a Comment
Read more

Overcoming Setbacks with Seligman's 3P's

How do you successfully process negative events that hit you in life ? Psychologist Martin Seligman discovered 3P's that STUNT recovery from such events: Personalization - what happened is my fault; realize that bad events aren't entirely your fault. Not everything that happens to you happens because of you. When you blame yourself, you delay recovery. Pervasiveness - this will affect ALL areas of my life; realize bad events don't affect every area of your life Permanence - the aftershocks of this event will last forever; realize hardships won't follow you everywhere forever even though you feel that the debilitating anguish will always be there. When we are suffering, we tend to project it out indefinitely and overestimate how long negative events will affect us. One way to overcome this is to replace "never" and "always" with "sometimes" and "lately". So next time, when the next 'bad'comes, remind yourself ...
Post a Comment
Read more