How important is air to our lungs? How important is blood to the body? If something were wrong with our circulatory or respiratory system, because these are key systems to our life, we wouldn’t hesitate to understand how to help our body find order.
While we may not always know what is wrong with our physical body, we may always know that something is wrong with our devotional body. The mind within the Bible, which remains in present tense, isn’t shy to let us know what is wrong with our personal devotional body. When hearing, “The sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores,” we can but only take heed to what is being said.
But is this talking about us? Is the Bible casting judgment against us right now alive? If you “swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel,” Isaiah 48:1, if connected to a religion or to a religious understanding centered around Abraham’s wisdom, then the Bible is speaking not only to us alive right now, but also to every other individual that will be alive after us.
The Bible’s message, being forever in the present tense, doesn’t change. The Bible’s message is consistent, and that message is counsel stating the sickness of the devotional conversation and the need for the devotional conversation to find health. This is why it says, “But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation,” 1 Peter 1:15.
The mind inspiring the Bible understands that the controversy is over the devotional conversation. Popular religion and popular religious theory secularizes the Bible’s mind, convincing their audience that the battle is firstly or primarily over their human being or over their “soul.” What they do not tell their audience is that human being and their “soul” cannot suffer defeat unless the conscience of their devotional conversation is weak.
The Bible’s primary concern is over the person’s devotional conversation. When the heart and mind of the devotional conversation is weak, the thought and the feeling of the human being will follow the trend. The goal of popular religious theory and of popular religion, so that they may further negatively influence the human being and its “soul,” is to have the individual subtly numb to the condition of their devotional conversation.
The mind inspiring the Bible is primarily concerned about the devotional conversation’s condition. There are many religious theories out there in the religious world. There are many stimulating attractions within the religious world. Every spiritual theory for every particular religious interest exists within the religious world, yet it is difficult to find, within the religious world, the Bible’s intended concern. This is why it says, “I pray not for the world,” John 17:9.
It is amazing how, contextually, this verse is passed over. While the religious world obsesses over its spiritual theory, the Bible’s mind utters not one prayer for the religious world. The Bible separates the religious world from the conversations within the religious world. To the Bible, there is no prayer for the religious world, but there is a great prayer for minds trapped within it, as it says, “That thou shouldest keep them from the evil,” John 17:15.
When it says, “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil,” John 17:15, we are reading of the devotional conversation’s assignment. The conversation is to exist within a sensual, misleading, and misinformed denominated theoretical religious environment. While in an environment absolutely damaging its character, it is to not consent to its environment, going against its experience within the religious world to develop a character contrary to it.
The sick conversation is a conversation that has not patiently and temperately separated itself from its religious environment. How can one be in the religious world and yet not of the religious world? The answer is by honoring the counsel: “To him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God,” Psalm 50:22.
The Bible forever tells us, and in present tense, that our conversation is sick, because it is. It doesn’t matter what age of life humanity will occupy; the devotional conversation will be sick. Sickness belongs to every devotional conversation because the conversation is conceived within an environment in which exists no prayer. This is fact, reality, and truth.
The Bible consistently calls for its student, no matter the story, the parable, the record, the psalm, the revelation, or the proverb within it, to put their conversation in order. What does this mean? This means that the natural devotional conversation, being conceived within traditional spiritual and/or academic religious theoretical world, is sick and needs amendment or “deliverance.”
All of a sudden the context of “redemption,” according to the Bible, makes sense. Despite what we are trained to believe, the conversation is the Bible’s subject of redemption, salvation, and deliverance; this is Bible truth and fact. The human being and the “soul” comes second to the Bible’s initial concern over devotional conversation’s conscience. Only when the conversation’s thoughts and feelings are well will the human being and its “soul” be well.
The Bible’s concern is plain. If we would have a healthy human being and “soul,” caring for the condition of our conversation’s conscience ought to become our primary concern. It is through the conversation’s growth and development that this battle over our “soul” and body is won, making it well to adopt the Bible’s will and concern for our devotional journey.
