Jan's thoughts / notes
Getting In Your Place--Jeremiah 2:12-13
1. Scriptures are clear that our OWN WAY (Jer. 2:19) will not work, the fact that it won't work is God's secondary concern. Forsaking God is the first and the most wicked of the two evils God enumerates in the above passage! (p. 67)
2. There is stability and joy that God gives to those who put their trust in Him rather than in their own devices. (Ps. 16:36)
3. Creation inherently demands dependency (Ps. 100:3). I must face my dependence upon my Creator, repent of my proud ways/attempts to make life work my OWN WAY, and submit to HIS way. (p. 69)
4. Humility--
If I have been humbled before God, I am no longer self-justifying, self-protective, or self-confident. My habitual frame of mind should be one that not only feels I owe all my natural gifts to God but that I have been the object of undeserved redeeming love and I regard myself as being God's alone, in Christ (II Cor. 3:5; 4:7). (p. 73)
How God Humbles Us (p. 77-83)
...He can send us a problem we can't handle to expose our helplessness...II Kings 5
...He can give us a command we won't obey to expose our self-centeredness...II Kings 14:25
...He can arrange an outcome we can't control to expose our sinfulness...II Sam. 11-12
...He can show us a God we can't comprehend to expose our finiteness...Job 1-4
5. Matthew 5:3; 18:3-4 (p. 73)
I am nothing apart from Him.
I am sinful and need His mercy.
I am insufficient and need His grace.
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