As we submit to Christ He will wean us off of our love for man-made measurements. That is, when we submit to Christ's Spirit, then He will make us a spiritual people.

We can trust Christ's opinion about us because He is unhindered by all the sin that twists and discolors our natural understanding. If we think we don't need to ask Christ about His opinion of us then we are tragically misguided.

We do well to relinquish our willpower or whatever ability we think we possess for keeping ourselves in line with Him. It is Christ who compels us to stay on His track despite our best efforts otherwise.

This means that you should not trust what I say unless the Spirit of Christ confirms it. As long as the Spirit is our Main Teacher we will have to worry about man-inspired misdirection.

Such times as these seem full of uncertainty, but even our doubtfulness ought to lead us toward trusting Christ more tenaciously. We can depend on His wisdom as He gives and we can depend on His love as He takes away. And when He speaks our best response is to be quite, listen and trust.

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