I Can't Help It II }

     Now that I have your attention; in regards to yesterday's blog "square peg", let me refine what it is that I mean!  It is God who "shaves our corners" and fits us into a place in this world. I had a little fun with yesterday's blog, but let me say in all seriousness, God has purpose for those who have entered in and have left what they had been born into in their natural life.  It is God's will and intent that when we enter into a kingdom of right living and of "his right living" and not ours, we are subject to a change> and must be because without change we are no good to him.  If you want to be set on fire ( not a fire that consumes and turns to ashes that which it touches) but a fire that refines everything and anything that is witnin you that was corruptable then their are steps to take and a "WAY" to do this.
     The Way I am refering to is none other than Christ.  The Way was known as those  believers who believed in something different, they may have been known as a "sect" In Roman times and people were wary of them, but nevertheless, it changed the world.
     John the Baptist led the way for Christ laying a precious stone of Baptism (or "Death and in the grave"  and of repentance.  This was a necessary step to the beginning of Christ's ministry.  A repentance of our way and our sin.  Do not misunderstand our understanding of Sin, as those "things" we do that are considered wrong or not acceptable in a good world, but rather  as an "inescapable Curse" we had levied on us because of disobedience.  If that is a hard fact to swallow in our time then it will  always be a stumbling block to entrance. Your mind will not comprehend this fact but but your Spirit will.
     Your square peg must be whittled down little by little in order to continue in the faith one you have made choice.  And with wisdom and grace you will find that it does indeed have reward for you.
     Not that I have found everything about our current state of the (Church to be  what I thought it would be) but you can trust that the words of Jesus and of those forerunners, the Apostles who labored on in faith that their labor would bear fruit.  And it did a hundred and a thousand fold and into our day.
     The reference to " those people" polarizing, rough and sandpaper like are all those who stand on issues that divide and are abrasive because they hold to one element of truth only and make it their sole cause  and this bumps into another who holds the exact opposite and then instead of harmony their is confusion.
 

  3 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.