Rejoice in Understanding and Knowing Him

I want to refer to the fact that it’s a good thing to glory in God and not to commend ourselves or compare ourselves one with another in any context.

2 Corinthians 10:12

2 Corinthians 10:17-19

It’s important that you and I have the commendation of the Lord in the way we live, talk with one another and treat one another. The enemy of our souls strives on the results of us comparing one another because it takes your sight away from God himself. Our perspective becomes wrong and warped when we compare each other.

Matthew 20:1-12

Their reaction to how the lord of the vineyard paid them was a human way of looking at things: “We’ve worked the whole day in the hot sun and you’re giving those who have worked only one hour, you’re giving them the same wage as us; it can’t be fair.”

Matthew 20:13-16

Matthew 6:23

It matters how we react to what God is doing in one another. It matters how we react even to such an extent that we can react wrongly and an evil aspect comes in and it’s possible that that affects our whole outlook and our view becomes warped. We accept what God is doing in our own lives but we question what God is doing in someone else’s life. We cannot accept that the Lord is good.

We do wrong if we compare ourselves one with another of our experiences of the “day” and we forget our relationship with God. What is he wanting to do in my life? Are the circumstances in my life at this time an opportuntiy for God to get hold of me. Or are they circumstances wrongly read into and mean you have a warped outlook on life. It’s not wise to compare ourselves one with another in that way.

Jeremiah 9:23-25

This is saying we need to glory in who God is and the nature of God. In this scripture we have lovingkindness, judgment and righteousness. What I want to commend to you this evening to do is to rejoice in how God has opened your eyes to understand and know who he is. He is exercising these three things in the church and in each of our lives. He is perfecting things in you in the best way he can. Don’t compare your experience with someone else’s. Rejoice in understanding and knowing him. “I am the Lord which exercises lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, for in these things I delight.”