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byHismercy · 12-03-2019, 11:25 PM

Regarding WWJD, I also remember a time when I looked down my nose at that "christianities' version".....but contemplating this conversation now, the Lord led me to consider again

Proverbs 3:6....In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.

How precious the faith displayed by those, His children, holding forth this idea (WWJD), and how precious this acknowledgement of Him.

And likewise how precious the faith of ones seeking to intimately receive His personal leading....

I cannot find fault with either. But I think it folly to pretend the Christian with WWJD as their concept somehow falls short of this interpersonal and real experience of the Lord. If they received Jesus as their Lord, He already has that direct line to their hearts and minds same as He does in me, and the lie we believed from Lee was that there was some kind of difference in the connect to their savior, vs. the All Superior connect we had with our savior in the LC.

Can anybody hear exactly how ridiculous that sounds now? Total folly, total foolishness. LC put too much emphasis on our part, somehow. That concept of exercising our human spirit to open the channel between us and God....there is something true in that and something so disturbing to me.....something niggling my brain, that wants to call that works. Vain, dead??? works. I don't know. I have been thinking about it for a long time and I haven't quite worked it all out. So far, in my experience, my effort is not worth much....really pitiful....but the Lord brings me on, as He is doing in all His children. He will finish what He began in all of us, He said so, right?

I hope I don't speak too prematurely, here. I'll let you know if He gives me any more clarity on the matter.

12-03-2019, 11:25 PM	#32
byHismercy Member Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Pacific Northwest Posts: 439	Re: How do you experience the Cross? Regarding WWJD, I also remember a time when I looked down my nose at that "christianities' version".....but contemplating this conversation now, the Lord led me to consider again Proverbs 3:6....In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. How precious the faith displayed by those, His children, holding forth this idea (WWJD), and how precious this acknowledgement of Him. And likewise how precious the faith of ones seeking to intimately receive His personal leading.... I cannot find fault with either. But I think it folly to pretend the Christian with WWJD as their concept somehow falls short of this interpersonal and real experience of the Lord. If they received Jesus as their Lord, He already has that direct line to their hearts and minds same as He does in me, and the lie we believed from Lee was that there was some kind of difference in the connect to their savior, vs. the All Superior connect we had with our savior in the LC. Can anybody hear exactly how ridiculous that sounds now? Total folly, total foolishness. LC put too much emphasis on our part, somehow. That concept of exercising our human spirit to open the channel between us and God....there is something true in that and something so disturbing to me.....something niggling my brain, that wants to call that works. Vain, dead??? works. I don't know. I have been thinking about it for a long time and I haven't quite worked it all out. So far, in my experience, my effort is not worth much....really pitiful....but the Lord brings me on, as He is doing in all His children. He will finish what He began in all of us, He said so, right? I hope I don't speak too prematurely, here. I'll let you know if He gives me any more clarity on the matter.