to get what we want, treating Him as the MagicGenieInTheSky, rather than enjoying intimacy with Him, living and working out of communion with Him as we go through our day. When we reduce our relationship with Him, to Him being OUR servant, trying to direct the CreatorSustainer of the Universe through our prayers, according to…

Best I can tell, education by human-wisdom-dependents nurtures self-reliance. And self-deception about the extent of our self-reliance. The more we’re educated the more we’re self-reliant and self-deceived — imagining our wisdom and understanding are worth leaning on. “Knowledge puffs up.” Adultlike, not childlike. INdependent, not DEpendent. Human-wisdom-dependent, not Jesus-dependent. Pride, not humility. Education doesn’t HAVE…

on avoiding risk, failure, we are inhibited and do not perform optimally. Pride, not humility. Momentarily-humble Christians do not fear failure, but learn from failure, and therefore perform optimally — with reckless abandon. A Jesus-dependent athlete has a big advantage over a human-wisdom-dependent athlete. How can a human-wisdom-dependent Christian become more Jesus-dependent? Only by the…

is central to the daily life of every human — nonChristian AND Christian. Human-wisdom would have us believe that trusting our human-wisdom will enable us to manage our circumstances to deliver easy. But Scripture EXPOSES the foolishness and futility of self-reliance ever delivering happiness — easy. Only Jesus-dependency delivers happiness, and Jesus-dependency has nothing to…

person in the world, when freshly convicted of my human-wisdom-dependency, AND, I feel good physiologically. I momentarily believe my rugged circumstances could NOT be any more perfect for me. But I typically go through my day with my human-wisdom influencing me MORE than Scripture, which clearly teaches Jesus’ sovereign reign over every detail of my…

chief expert, and the best parent is the chief confessor. Guess which one Dave was — the parent of SIX prodigals? I gave them the law, and Janet gave them love. As brand-new Christians we made a lot of mistakes, and neither of us had a grace foundation that was wide-and-deep enough to enable us…

After The Fall they were human-wisdom-dependent. They got what they wanted — INdependency. Just like us. Wise in their own eyes, leaning on their own understanding, no longer so pathetically dependent on Another. Free to be captains of their souls, masters of their fates. Jesus came, in part, to reverse the effects of The Curse,…

of others, in real life, online, TV, books, movies, is that we’re brutal evaluators of ourselves. You spot it, you got it. Christian evaluators are unhappy people. When Christians are enjoyers instead of judges, we are momentarily happy people. Evaluating/judging/critiquing requires human-wisdom, and human-wisdom is the enemy of happiness. The nicest, kindest thing Jesus’ Spirit…

Wanting to be USED of Jesus in the lives of others — both Christian and nonChristian, in more-powerful ways than I am. Uncontent with where Jesus has me right now, wanting MORE than Him and His imputed worthiness — wanting some worthiness of my own, in my own eyes, and in the eyes of others,…