From the passage in Romans
Romans 12:3 (NASB) [3] For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
The greek word sophroneo (sound judgment) means "to be of sound mind," or "in one's right mind, sober-minded." It has the idea of self control, to have your mind under control to be able to see the truth. I think in this particular context it has the idea that we tend to think of ourselves too highly because of the old nature. We need to take God's word into consideration and really see ourselves as He sees us. This harkens back to the previous verse that talks about renewing your mind. By renewing our minds we come to realize that it is only looking at what is going on around us through God's eyes that we find the truth and the right path for our feet. This verse that talks about not thinking of ourselves more highly that we ought, indicates that we must exercise humbleness, or bow to what God has to say about our situation.
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I am still experiencing a weight plateau and I'm trying everything to get off of it. I thought that I would remove the diet tag until I start losing again.
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Once again I turn my attention to Romans 12 to see what other items that it contains for me. We now come to verse 3 where it says,
Romans 12:3 (NASB) [3] For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. This is a call to humbleness, the opposite of pride. We tend to think in terms of how well we are doing in the world and that clouds our thinking and makes us less receptive to the Lord's leading. In fact, let the Lord elevate us in His site. If we are to have a renewed mind that is thinking the way that the Lord thinks, then we by definition will know a lot about the Lord and we have cultivated a closeness with Him. That is the only way that we would be able to think in the correct manner. |
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Back to reading Romans 12: Trying to determine what other goodies that the Lord wants to bring out in this passage for me. The word for Test here means to test, examine, discover, interpret, discern, approve, prove, demonstrate. So it looks like it's more than just testing the Will of God, but it involves discovery and examination. Looks like the passage in Proverbs 2 comes to mind here.
Proverbs 2:7-9 (NASB) [7] He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity, [8] Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones. [9] Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity and every good course. One of the things that is important about this passage is the key phrases, "way" and "course." These indicate a path of life, following in the will of the Lord (as it indicates further on at the end of Pr 4. It also indicates preservation of that way for the ones that the Lord holds in regard. Just before this section there is a list of things about crying out and calling on the Lord to reveal hidden things so that they may be made plain, in order to follow the right path. |
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Here I am in a Honda dealer waiting room waiting for my Accord to get
worked on. It's a great time to catch up on reading and blogging and
whatever you might want to do. Just 2+ hours with several of your
closest friends. Actually I am reading up on robotics while I am here
in preparation for setting up my computer to compile some things to try
out on my robot. I just needed to type something so there, it would
appear that I cannot resend something from this stupid ScribeFire
interface.
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Here I am contemplating the meaning of Romans 12 in light of the Living Sacrifice thing. I have already looked into the meaning of the phrase "renewing of your mind". I came to the conclusion that it is a process which goes on for a long time in that you are trying to see things the Lord's way. You are trying to take His viewpoint on everything, looking as it were through his glasses. In coming to grips with this statement, I have begun to see that I have not been living my life quite the way that I should be living it. It came home to me in the Wolverton Class when I found out that I had a pride problem. I found myself in the rather bad position of having to quit something that I really enjoyed in order for the Lord to have a chance to deal with my pride problem, namely teaching. I am still at a loss to know what the Lord wants me to do with my life from this point forward. The Lord's direction seems to be one of letting you go in a given direction but looking for how you spend your life. Do I trust in myself, or do I trust in the Lord. Rom 12:2 states, "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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Ok, if truth be known I have decided to make the plunge and build a robot for the KIPR Open competition with my grandson. In fact, I have purchased an iRobot Create to use as the base for the robot that I will use. Maybe I am shooting ahead a little too fast but I need to get familiar with what the base can do and it's capabilities prior to getting the current rule set for the tournament. The KIPR Open rule set changes each year and is released sometime int he September time frame. Since I don't know much about the irobot Create, I will need to fill in the time getting used to it and learning what constraints that I have on the programming. I have a Chumby which I am thinking that I might use to be a separate processor / controller since I can have it battery operated. The Chumby is based on an ARM processor, 64MB of memory and the Rom resides on a micro-SD chip. The interface to the outside world is a USB port which will work just fine as a serial line to the Create's serial port input. The Chumby already has a linux operating system along with a wireless capability so I pretty much have what I need.
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