I been considering some things lately. As I look over some words and beliefs of some renown Christian leaders of sorts, I have been realizing just how flawed everyone of us really is, including ALL of those leaders. Or have I realized correctly? I do not know how to judge as well as I believe I should. I don’t know it all as some seem to think they do. As I see more and more people, whom I’ve respected, fall short of perfection in Christ, I’m coming to see better that Christ is the Only One who will pass this test of perfect theology, perfect Love, perfect Truth, and perfect Holiness. In saying this, I am certainly not saying that I know enough to discern all wrong in these people. But rather I believe God that no one but He, His Holy Spirit, and His Only True Son are Perfect. They make up the Only Perfect God.
Everyone whom you look at right now in your mind that you respect as being so close to God and the Truth, has and will fail somewhere some way in this at sometime. We do not place our hope and confidence in fallible men who can change over night. Christ Jesus is the Only One Who is
"the same yesterday, today, and forever". It's becoming a more severious (a word I’ve produced combining severe+serious) concern of mine that I see some offer the impression to others that they have arrived so much so that they can easily judge others to the point of indicating they know how to judge as God does. They seem to have accepted a perverted understanding of the words
“the spiritual man judges all things”. I can’t go into much detail about individuals here for I don’t think it's right, but I will say it is a shame on their characters. In this I thank God for I wish to never look so highly at anyone that they seem to be near the level of God. This is idolatry and God hates it. Because God does hate idolatry so much so that it is clearly expressed in His initial commandments, I personally believe God has designed mankind --through His Sovereignty-- that no human can come near His perfection this side of Heaven where we will then see Him as He is and want to worship and adore Him ALONE. And unless we desire to be infatuated and blinded by an idolatrous heart, we will always see failure and shortcomings in any Christian leader anywhere in some way or another sooner or later. And maybe we already have but are presently in denial from a wicked and idolatrous heart which would dare to place another man near the level of Christ.
Heb 7:24- 28
But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.
I thank You Lord that You are the Only Perfect One Whom any of us can place our full trust and confidence in.Ps 118:8It is better to trust in the Lord
Than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord
Than to put confidence in princes.
Job 4:17-19
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
Can a man be more pure than his Maker?
If He puts no trust in His servants,
If He charges His angels with error,
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,
Whose foundation is in the dust,
Who are crushed before a moth?
Job 15:15-16
If God puts no trust in His saints,
And the heavens are not pure in His sight,
How much less man, who is abominable and filthy,
Who drinks iniquity like water!
And we all need to consider this one. For there are those who are proud in their so-called knowledge of God and His doctrine, and there are those who lie about the truth of His doctrine. We should place no confidence in either, but trust in the LORD ALONE…
Ps 40:4
Blessed is that man who makes the Lord his trust,
And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
And so the Truth is summed up here…Ps 18:30
As for God, His way is perfect;
The word of the Lord is proven;
He is a shield to all who trust in Him.
For who is God, except the Lord?
And who is a rock, except our God?-Scripture from nkjv-
