Sorry I haven't written sooner, I think I have gotten too busy. Throw in a holiday on top of my everyday stuff and I hit the wall.
I hope you read the last blog because this will follow that one. Remember I said God created us in His image and likeness and that He would train us up in the way we should go by developing us to train our senses to discern good and evil. Not know good and evil by experiencing pain but by His words leading and guiding us to train our senses to avoid the bad and enjoy the good. That so goes along with Romans 8:14, it reads that the ones led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. The ones allowing the Holy Spirit to lead, correct, instruct are the ones who become the mature sons. From the Garden till today our Father has been trying to get us all to follow Him, He needs us to be spiritually mature. Well hello! God the Father has had to deal with a lot of immature children, honestly how does He? Look at 11Timothy3: 15& 16, Paul says the holy scriptures are able to make you wise unto salvation. Salvation means healing, deliverance, rescue, help or aid. So he is saying that as you read the scriptures you will smarten up how to be safe in this world, how through Jesus we can avoid the pain the devil would like us to know. Then he says all scripture is given by inspiration of God and it is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteous that the man or woman of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. In a simplification of that, we can say by us hearing the word, reading the word, following the Spirit we will be the mature sons of God who will grow up, be perfect through the word and finally be able to do all the good works we are called of God to accomplish. I have to be that person, I desire to follow the Spirit, to grow up and be the person the Father wants me to be, don't you? Well of course you do.
Religion has taught us that we will never be perfect until we get to Heaven, that is a lie. We can be becoming perfect right here and now by following His word. You know the bumper sticker that says I am not perfect just forgiven.... it is not scriptural! We can be becoming more and more perfected as we grow up in the word of God.