Being made in God’s image, man is most gifted and competent both to conceive and achieve wonderful things even so to the point of delusion where he allows to develop in him a “haughty heart” and “lofty eyes”. Humanism results and what started as delightful fragrance of God-centered obedience ferments in the heart and actually rots, generating a stench of godless arrogance. Fragrance to stench is the inherent risk to all seeking to duplicate or mimic the Creator. Idolatry is the temptation we must attend to, especially any who with even good intentions strive to accomplish.
Here is the “smell test” we all may use to examine ourselves: are we pushed on by our ability to endure or are pulled on by hope?
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