meaning "a daring man." My friend, to engage in assumption is to be presumptuous. It is to be a daring woman in the worst way! It is to take for granted that your way, your view, and your opinion are worthy of forming the foundation of your thoughts. Only God's way, view, and opinion are worthy of becoming the foundation of our thought closets.
Presumption shows itself in me when I wrongly assume my perspective is complete but it is actually limited by my experiences and flawed by my sinful nature. The fact that I act on my presumptions implies in the depth of my heart I trust and prefer my view above God's.
My friend when God showed me this, I asked Him to forgive me for engaging in presumption. If God is showing you the same, repent of this and ask God for His forgivness.
Read Psalm 19:13 again aloud as a prayer.
Psalm 19:13 (New American Standard Bible)
13Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins;
Let them not rule over me;
Then I will be blameless,
And I shall be acquitted of great transgression.
Let's end our time together today by committing the foundation of our thought closets to God's truth, not faulty assumptions. We want thought closets teeming with truth, full of right thinking, and grounded with God's thoughts, not our own.
I want you to memorize Psalm 19:13, so write it on a sticky note or index card and carry it around with you today. Meditate on it and pray it constantly so your thought closet will have God's light shining brightly in it, exposing any faulty assumption in there. Bless you, my sister.
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