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May 15
Friday


THE SECRET IS

READ:
1 Corinthians 2:6-16
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We speak the wisdom
of God in a mystery,
the hidden wisdom
which God ordained
before the ages.
__1 Corinthians 2:7
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If you believe Rhonda Byrne, author of the bestselling book The Secret, "The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to be and feel happy now!" according to Byrne, this has to do with something called the law of attraction. If you think only about things that make you happy, she says, happy things will be attracted to you.

Sounds easy enough.

However, the Bible says that "the secret" to life is something very different. It has to do with "the law of the Spirit of life" that sets us free from "the law of sin and death" (Rom. 8:2), not with the "law of attraction."

According to the apostle Paul, the most important thing to know is "Jesus Christ and Him crucified" (1 Cor. 2:2). To those who are concerned with happiness now, this is indeed foolishness (v.14). They do not recognize the power of God in what appears to them as weakness.

The Lord created us with a desire to know what is secret. In His wisdom, He kept certain things hidden in mystery for a time (v.7). But now, through His Holy Spirit, He has made then known. And the secret he reveals has nothing to do with having happy thoughts in order to obtain happy things; it has to do with having the mind of Jesus Christ (v.16).

__Julie Ackerman Link
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`````````````````There is a law that made us free--````````````````
``````````````````In Romans 8 this truth is heard;````````````````
```````````````````The secret is to walk with God`````````````````
```````````````````And daily lean upon His Word.`````````````````
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To know lasting happiness. we must get to know Jesus.

*************Today's Bible Reading __ 1 Corinthians 2:6-16*********

6 However, we speak
wisdom among those who
are mature, yet not the
wisdom of this age, nor of
the rulers of this age, who
are coming to nothing.

7 But we speak the wisdom
of God in a mystery, the
hidden wisdom which God
ordained before the ages for
our glory, 8 which none of
the rulers of this age knew;
for had they known, they
would not have crucified
the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written: "Eye
has not seen, nor ear heard,
nor have entered into the
heart of man the things
which God has prepared for
those who love Him."

10 But God has revealed
them to us through His
Spirit. Fro the Spirit
searches all things, yes, the
deep things of God. 11 For
what man knows the things
of a man except the spirit of
the man which is in him?

Even so no one knows the
things of God except the
Spirit of God. 12 Now we
have received, not the spirit
of the world, but the Spirit
who is from God, that we
might know the things that
have been freely given to us
by God.

13 These things we also
speak, not in words which
man's wisdom teaches but
which the Holy spirit
teaches, comparing spiritual
things with spiritual. 14 But
the natural man does not
receive the things of the
Spirit of God, for they are
foolishness to him; nor can
he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned.

15 But he who is spiritual
judges all things, yet he
himself is rightly judged by
no one. 16 For "who has
known the mind of the
LORD that he may instruct
Him? But we have the
mind of Christ.