Wisdom To know The Difference

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Wisdom To know TheDifference

• Help me Lord to follow what is right and to
  abstain from what is wrong and grant me the
  wisdom to know the difference.

At times a conscientious Christian finds it
somewhat difficult to find the difference. Phil.
110 that you may approve the things that are
excellent that you may distinguish between
things that differ
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Free Moral Agency

• Therefore give to Your servant an understanding
  heart to judge Your people, that I may discern
  between good and evil. For who is able to judge
  this great people of Yours? The speech pleased
  the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing (1
  Kings 39-10).
• If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God,
  who gives to all liberally and without reproach,
  and it will be given to him (James 15).
• How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to
  get understanding is to be chosen rather than
  silver (Prov.1616).

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Worry or Concern

• "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your
  life, what you will eat or what you will drink
  nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not
  life more than food and the body more than
  clothing? (Matt. 625).
• "So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the
  lilies of the field, how they grow they neither
  toil nor spin (Matt. 628).
• "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for
  tomorrow will worry about its own things.
  Sufficient for the day is its own trouble (Matt.
  634).
• Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
  prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let
  your requests be made known to God (Phil. 46).
• And Jesus answered and said to her, "Martha,
  Martha, you are worried and troubled about many
  things (Lk. 1041).

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Conservative or Lacking Faith

• When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon,
  Launch out into the deep and let down your nets
  for a catch (Luke 54).
• So when they were filled, He said to His
  disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain,
  so that nothing is lost (Jn. 612).
• So they all ate and were filled, and they took up
  seven large baskets full of the fragments that
  were left (Matt. 1537).

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Conservative or Lacking Faith

• For which of you, intending to build a tower,
  does not sit down first and count the cost,
  whether he has enough to finish it -- lest, after
  he has laid the foundation, and is not able to
  finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying,
  This man began to build and was not able to
  finish. Or what king, going to make war against
  another king, does not sit down first and
  consider whether he is able with ten thousand to
  meet him who comes against him with twenty
  thousand? Or else, while the other is still a
  great way off, he sends a delegation and asks
  conditions of peace. So likewise, whoever of you
  does not forsake all that he has cannot be My
  disciple. (Luke 1428-33).

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Fanaticism or Faithfulness

• Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us
  from every lawless deed and purify for Himself
  His own special people, zealous for good works
  (Titus 214).
• Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for
  Israel is that they may be saved. For I bear them
  witness that they have a zeal for God, but not
  according to knowledge. For they being ignorant
  of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish
  their own righteousness, have not submitted to
  the righteousness of God (Rom. 101-3).
• So they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was
  their custom, with knives and lances, until the
  blood gushed out on them. And when midday was
  past, they prophesied until the time of the
  offering of the evening sacrifice. But there was
  no voice no one answered, no one paid attention
  (1 Kings 1828-29).