OPTIMIZING GREAT SMARTS

OPTIMIZING GREAT SMARTS

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. [1Cor.11:7a]

Psalm [NLT] 139:13-16 You [O Lord] made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
 and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
 Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born.

  Depending on our level of interest in maturation pleasing, honoring, and glorifying God; therein more readily discerning distinctions between good and evil; consequently becoming more whole, productive, and a better family participant and neighbor . . . we acquire, read, and ponder edifying writings such as 8 GREAT SMARTS.

  Having read and pondered such edifying writings, then in prayerful reflection deciding our Creator endowed smarts operative order in our life, we then implement our education with the desire to optimize our God-honoring sainthood.  We do so because of our Christian being and with hope for others whether friend or foe: For so it was and is with Jesus Christ our Lord and example.

  Desiring our smarts to function at their most 1Corinthians 13 charity-centered effective requires studious connection with and application of the Word written and Living. Without such knowledgeable personal devotion we function little differently than or exactly as do people without God’s indwelling Holy Spirit.

  Got smarts! Get smarter: “For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.” (1Cor.3:9-23)

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