Psalm 36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
More times then not men and women who truly love God seek Holiness by their own hands. They say to themselves “Because I love God I must stop (whatever sin they have) and give my life totally to God.” And this is a very honorable desire to give your life for God totally. The problem arise in the misconception that we can consecrate ourselves to God.
One example of this self-consecration is called introspective. With introspective we survey all the event of our day keeping what we think is of God and letting go of the things which are not, vowing to repent from the sins of that day.
The problem with this method is that we leave the knowledge of good and bad to be discerned by our own heart and mind. But psalm 19:12 asks “Who can discern his errors” not one of us, because even if it is our will to do the right thing our heart will not allow us to, it will lie to us, and confuse us into believing we are holy in action when in fact we have become hypocrites in our attempt to be close to God.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
More importantly when we seek to judge our actions through introspective we are looking inward toward ourselves for answers. But Hebrews 12:2 says “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith” the Amplified Bible give a much better understanding of this simple yet ever so powerful verse it says “Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus” Here is the power in this verse looking away from self to Jesus.
Here is a very quick fable I read the other day.
There was a centipede and a frog talking, when the frog asked “which of you many feet moves first when you walk? How do you know which to move next?” the centipede realized that he did not know which foot moved first and when he tried he could not even move just one foot so he god angry and left. “I’m leaving he said,” but when he tried to leave his mind was on his feet and he was stuck right where he was unable to move forward at all.
The centipede loved to bath in the sunlight on his favorite leaf so when the noon sun came without thinking he ran over to his favorite leaf to rest, completely forgetting to analyze which foot to move first. This is true of us saints when we look toward our situation, circumstances, even try to introspectively analyze the events of the day we get stuck, our mind and heart becomes deceitful beyond cure and we can no longer grow in our walk with Christ.
Oh but when we look away from all that will distract us to Jesus, who is the resurrection, then by his light (understanding from the Holy Spirit) we shall have light .
