renewing ...

'screeeeeeetch' {pulls out the old wooden soapbox}

Well, there is a book out there about 'awakening' and a 'new earth' that is all the rage and hype. Interesting ... Why would I need a book like that when I have God's Word? The Holy Bible is all about renewing the mind and being a new creation where the Creator makes all things new. The new earth will never happen here. A new heaven and a new earth will come after the first heaven and the first earth have passed away. It is a physical sense not a mental one. It is about His Kingdom and His children.

I do not care that the book might have the Scripture in it. False teachers and false prophets love to use God's Word to suit their purpose. Easier to hook you into their thinking. Remember the enemy would love nothing more than to snatch a believer from God's grip. I believe in Eternal Security but it is also up to the believer to make sure the soil is good soil and not stony, shallow, or spoiled.

Recently I have been convicted about self-help books. I do admit that I have an addiction to them. I finally said no more back in 2003. However, I was listening to a speaker show how self-help books are bad because we have taken our focus off God and His Ever-Present Help which means we become god or so we think. Beware! Just another way to be doped by the enemy.

I know the desire to be a better self. I love to learn and I hope that I am better. You've heard it said that you can't change others so stop. You can't change yourself without seeking God. He then allows you to change and it becomes permanent. The emptiness stops. The endless searching stops. He alone can still the raging waters and He alone can still the striving heart. Let Him.

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Does the book parallel itself with the Bible? Do you feel that this book is a supplemental to the Bible? Do you feel that this author expounds upon the Bible better? Are you being lead to the slaughter?