Romans 10:2-3 (NKJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God\u2019s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s painful to see millions of people seeking to please God by trying to establish their own righteousness outside of God\u2019s plan. It\u2019s so sad and heartbreaking. Ignorance of the truth does not free us from the futility of ignorance. Zeal that is not based on truth is empty zeal and millions are zealous for God, but without any real substance as foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God has His righteousness and He has set a pathway for us to enter that righteousness. If we follow in His pathway, we will experience His grace and power. If we follow our own ways, and do not submit to God\u2019s pattern to attain righteousness, we will not only suffer frustration here, we will harvest eternal lose and damnation. God\u2019s way is the only way. Zeal outside God\u2019s way is foolishness. Ignorance can be cured by knowledge, and we need to always seek knowledge and present same to the ignorant in our world. Pain, death, hopelessness and futility are all products of ignorance of God\u2019s pattern. In my short life, I don\u2019t want to chase shadows. I want to live according to God\u2019s pattern, and teach others to do same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLord, show me Your ways. Use me also to show others the ways You\u2019ve shown me. Deliver us from ignorance and false zeal. In Jesus name. Amen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Romans 10:2-3 (NKJV) \u201cFor I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God\u2019s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.\u201d It\u2019s painful to see millions of people seeking to please God by trying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-romans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reflections-from-Romans.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}