Experience versus Stance.
Most or all of the scriptures are experiences of others recorded for our learning. If you can have the experiences yourself then have them. Compare them with scriptures to help you learn from them but be wary about how you use those scriptures cos you can misunderstand them. God is greater than our hearts and knows everything. Stances are for manekins, experiences are for the living. Experience tells me Jesus is alive somewhere and reaches me - and I need experience to understand and cement that faith, no stance. Stances cause divisions into parties.
Here is what Apostle Paul said -
"My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead."
Charles Wesley's hymn:
"Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom fly, while the nearer waters roll, while the tempest still is high; hide me, O my Savior, hide, till the storm of life is past; safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last!
Other refuge have I none; hangs my helpless soul on thee; leave, ah! leave me not alone, still support and comfort me. All my trust on thee is stayed, all my help from thee I bring; cover my defenseless head with the shadow of thy wing.
Plenteous grace with thee is found, grace to cover all my sin; let the healing streams abound; make and keep me pure within. Thou of life the fountain art; freely let me take of thee; spring thou up within my heart, rise to all eternity."
Experience of tongues with interpretation teaches me:
In the winter the deciduous trees have just a stance and look dead but each spring they come alive with buds and how? By the power of the Lordship of Jesus Christ! Tongues taught me that!
Blessed is the Father who is God and gave resurrection and eternal life through His Son Jesus Christ the Lord.
Blessed is the Father who is God and gave resurrection and eternal life through His Son Jesus Christ the Lord.
