Apr 07
Applying Biblical Principles to the Details of our Lives
The Bible is full of principles which we can apply to our lives, and to our character development as we grow in our relationship with Christ. We can often can take a biblical principle and apply it to a certain situation, but do we stop to think about applying it to the nitty-gritty details of our lives?
I know that I often overlook applying a principle to my life in this way. For example, we read in Isaiah 55 that God’s ways and thoughts are higher than ours. We can look at a specific situation and say, “I see that God’s plans for that situation were different than mine, and this is evidence of the truth”. And that it not a bad thing to do by any means. Lately however I find myself being reminded of this scripture sometimes almost immediately after I think or do something, and this is what has got me pondering whether or not I really do attempt to apply the things that God is teaching me to the “small” details of my life.
Why is this important? Because our thoughts and our attitudes (and therefore our actions and words) are all intertwined. Our thoughts feed our attitudes, and our attitudes our thoughts. I know that If I don’t pay attention to the details, the seeminly “small” things, then I don’t really believe that God’s ways and thoughts are higher than mine.
