There is a saying among students of the Word of God: “A text taken out of context is a pretext.” This is also true of life; there must be contextual living if one is to interpret his or her life correctly. If not, as Paul tells us, we’ll be, “tossed to and fro.” This is not just true doctrinally, but practically, in our everyday lives.
Whether it be physical, intellectual, or in the spiritual realm, we must keep everything in context. We must confine all happenings in life to our own particular and peculiar God-given makeup. Although there is likeness among us, there is not exactness. There is a uniqueness connected to each of God’s creatures that general observance does not lend itself to. Only detailed study reveals it.
The scripture tells us one of the works of of the flesh is “emulations.” There is no place for copy-cats if we’re to ever feel comfortable in our own skin. God did not make any copies when He made man, only the original. Therefore, we must cease to evaluate our lives and its worth through the prism of others.
"Thine hands have made me and fashioned me...Thou hast made me as clay...He made me in the womb...The Spirit of God hath made me.” (Job)
“Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. (David)
“But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.” (Isaiah)
by an Old Disciple
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