We are not to assess or judge merely by what our eyes see. To do so, is to judge according to knowledge. We must not judge according to knowledge, but according to knowing. Knowing is knowledge with understanding. Knowledge is outer and of the flesh…knowing is inner and of the Spirit. Knowledge uses reason and comes to its own conclusions… knowing waits upon the Lord.
The Lord did not give us the faculty of reason to guide us— we mustn’t be guided by our own reason. The Lord gave us the faculty of reason so that we may make sense of what He reveals to us. As a people of the Lord, we must be led by revelation, not reason.
Lord, please help us to remember this when we try to understand this world and when we deal with others…particularly those we are tempted to judge. Help us to put our trust in Your sovereignty over all circumstances. Even Your sovereignty over the human heart and the motives deep within that we cannot perceive.
You perceive and You are Lord and that is enough.
(Prov 16:9) A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
(Prov 19:21) Many plans are in a man's heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
(Jer 10:22,23) Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a den of dragons. I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.
(1 Sam 16:7) …The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.
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