November 15, 2009
\n“What Is That to You?”
\nPeter . . . said to Jesus, \u2019But Lord, what about this man?\u2019 Jesus said to him, \u2019. . . what is that to you? You follow Me\u2019 \u2014John 21:21-22
\nOne of the hardest lessons to learn comes from our stubborn refusal to refrain from interfering in other people\u2019s lives. It takes a long time to realize the danger of being an amateur providence, that is, interfering with God\u2019s plan for others. You see someone suffering and say, “He will not suffer, and I will make sure that he doesn\u2019t.” You put your hand right in front of God\u2019s permissive will to stop it, and then God says, “What is that to you?” Is there stagnation in your spiritual life? Don\u2019t allow it to continue, but get into God\u2019s presence and find out the reason for it. You will possibly find it is because you have been interfering in the life of another\u2014 proposing things you had no right to propose, or advising when you had no right to advise. When you do have to give advice to another person, God will advise through you with the direct understanding of His Spirit. Your part is to maintain the right relationship with God so that His discernment can come through you continually for the purpose of blessing someone else.<\/p>\n
Most of us live only within the level of consciousness\u2014 consciously serving and consciously devoted to God. This shows immaturity and the fact that we\u2019re not yet living the real Christian life. Maturity is produced in the life of a child of God on the unconscious level, until we become so totally surrendered to God that we are not even aware of being used by Him. When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured-out wine, we have yet another level to reach\u2014 a level where all awareness of ourselves and of what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint\u2014 a saint is consciously dependent on God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
November 15, 2009 “What Is That to You?” Peter . . . said to Jesus, \u2019But Lord, what about this man?\u2019 Jesus said to him, \u2019. . . what is that to you? You follow Me\u2019 \u2014John 21:21-22 One of the hardest lessons to learn comes from our stubborn refusal to refrain from interfering in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}