Established with grace

Heb 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.


Divers and strange doctrines.


Throughout the many, many years since our Lord walked the earth there have been divers and strange doctrines that we are NOT to be carried about by.


People will say just about anything to trick others. People with delusions of grandeur who believe they need followers have created all sorts of sects for easily deceived people to join. They'll make up their own rules, their own doctrines complete with various rituals to follow. Some people have created elaborate religions based on their beliefs and they have millions of followers- it's true. However Satan has used his deceptive ways and the divers and strange doctrines have been so entrenched in people they believe they are true doctrines. People love to pick apart the Bible leaving out the bits that don't agree with their beliefs and they love to change things to suit their needs.


We are all guilty of trying to make sense of God's will for us. We are all guilty of holding to beliefs we see as important but others might not. We all want to do God's will don't we? That is the hope any way.


Doing God's will, not our will. We confuse the two all too often.


Heb 13:9 '…it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace…'


A heart established with grace.


Our hearts need to be established with grace- not with ANYTHING that doesn't profit us towards the will and grace of God. Some will become caught up in doctrines- strange and different- doctrines that make God's grace second not first. We have to find God's grace in all we do first and foremost. If we can't find God's grace in any doctrine we choose to follow, if we don't follow a doctrine out of God's grace then we are in danger of being deceived.


You can hold fast to all the doctrines you want and you can follow them to the letter never failing but that will profit you nothing. You can defend your doctrines and claim them to be God's will all you want but they are all MEANINGLESS without the grace of our Lord and Savior, without the love of God overflowing in those doctrines, those beliefs.


2Pe 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.


God's love first! We can't forget this, we just can't. No matter what we believe, we can't forget God's love first.


No, I'm not say our beliefs are unimportant, God forbid! God has a holy law given in love for us to follow. That's the key though- given in LOVE! If we don't keep God's law out of love we keep it in VAIN!


Heb 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.


The heart has to be established with grace and the love of God is fully revealed in the grace our hearts are to be established in. We can't have God's grace without having His love.


Amen.