oldman wrote:...I did make it clear in my opening post “cannabis can be extremely dangerous”. I said this because I know by experience that when a man abuses cannabis he very easily becomes subject to Satan. Even so, my experience also tells me that using the drug in reasonable moderation as I have described can be very beneficial to certain people.
I don't believe cannabis led me to God but I do believe God ultimately led me to cannabis in order that I could see Him and reveal Him more clearly.
God can use anything to draw a person to him. The question becomes, drawn to what?
Ephesians 2:8, 9 NASB - "
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast."
What does verse 9 say - "not as a result of works, so that no one may boast..."
Are you not boasting in the work of partaking cannabis to encounter God? God leads a person to himself - not to something else else to find him.
Have you considered that biblical principle?
What God desires is that we come to him just as we are - no works involved - to encounter him. He will not lead us to some work we must do to encounter him. We are to trust in him alone for enlightenment and insight - not legalism, not cannabis - but solely upon his grace. That is where he desires you to go from here. It sounds like to me that you are placing your faith in cannabis to encounter God and not God's grace alone.
Is that true?
In fact Jesus said this...
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Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29 "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. 30 "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Mat 11:28, 28, 29 NASB
Whom does he say to come too - cannabis first then to him? -- NO -- read it again. Him alone so that you find the rest you desire that no cannabis can fill, no legalism can bring.
I know many addicts who through their use of alcohol /drugs encountered God. So, yes, in a sense, God can use anything to awaken a person to his/her need for him alone. In doing so, he requires for us to give up these things in order to actually move further and deeper into the things of God. If not, reliance (faith) is in the work to find God and not on him alone.
Do you desire to go further with God?
We are called to carry our own cross (Luke 14:27). I think it was A. W. Tozer who said - "a man who carries a cross knows he will not return..."
We are called to carry our cross. A person who carries a cross knows he will not be returning...
Bitterness, envy, strife, contentions, a jealousy that robs a person’s spirit and shackle them to fears – what are you chained too?
You will not return to… Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, that kills and deadens the soul. What is deadening your soul?
If you carry your cross – you will not return to...Idolatry, sorceries, dissension, heresies that destroy the body. Cannabis is a type of idol and didn't you know that what a person focus' on the most reveals the idol hidden deep within the heart that lead to ruination within the body. Have you looked in a mirror lately?
A Man who carrying a cross knows he will not return…
To slandering gossip, character assassination, murdering in heart, living by unforgiveness that robs from the spirit those touched by it...So, readers, what have these done to you and why so committed to keep spreading these around?
A Man carrying a cross knows he will not be returning...
To unrighteous behavior, living in avoidance of the correction word of God brings, living as a thief seeking what one can gain from another’s sorrow, popularity, wealth … that makes the soul all people hard and dead to conscience
A Person bearing a cross knows he shan't be returning to these old ways... or the old ways they thought best to find God or garner blessings...
We are called to carry our own cross if we desire to progress further with him and be his disciples that gives all honor to Him alone and not cannabis... not in Idols, sorcery, addictions, theft, bitterness, living without constraints, revenge, envy, wounded hearts, manipulations, etc and etc...
So are you giving more honor to justify cannabis than Jesus Christ at work in you?
Yes, there is a medical purpose that cannabis can be used for such as cancer treatment. Helps regain the appetite and decrease nausea. Pain med's are fine when used as intended to decrease pain. But when these take over a person, the role of medicine stops and destruction begins. If one uses cannabis, mushrooms, mescaline as a Shaman would, to reach the divine, that falls under the class of works that can't save. It also leads to deception and the guilt of leading others into the same deception. A lying spirit, yes, will come as a seducer. They may even use the bible and grant great insights into it, why, to eventually lead one into ruin and bring others into the same ruin.
Have you considered this?
The Lord may have used whatever to bring you to him, and then he led you here, to decide now, to carry your cross and actually follow him...
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