Daily Bible Readings YLT March 22nd

Those who do not believe in God, who have not received of His Spirit, who are determined to persevere in the thinking of their own minds, who are not open to hear, who harden their hearts against God and His truth and His Son and all that He has done for us, prevent the truth from setting them free. They are captured in a time warp, in a world of ignorance and foolishness, as Proverbs 12:8 says"According to his wisdom is a man praised: and the perverted of heart becometh despised"And what is foolishness to human beings is God's wisdom. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The understanding that we need is only given by the Holy Spirit and He will dwell in us as a gift from God if we will hold God's truth in our hearts. Those who do not believe cannot believe that what God can do is according to His power and not ours. He is the God who creates, the God who speaks, the God who hears, the God whose arm is not too short, whose power is not limited.It is not possible in such human thinking for God to create the heavens and the earth and everything in them, nor that Mary should conceive in her womb by the power of God for the messenger from God says: "The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy begotten thing shall be called Son of God." We in our vanity and pride think that we are God, that we are wiser than He is, because we do not believe Him so we are the supreme being, the god we bow down to, the be all and the end all.But it is not so.God is God and there is no other and no amount of denying and thinking otherwise will make that change. And our place is to love the Lord our God. He is our God: not a foreign and remote God, one that does not love His creation and all humankind within it. But one who loves who created us, knit us in our mother's womb. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. And this God who is good and faithful and just and full of mercy and loving kindness, slow to anger and swift to bless is our God.Hear O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah; and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might Deuteronomy 6: 4,5