Galatians 6:7-8 – 7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
We need to keep our eyes on the only prize that matters. That would be the Lord who loves us, gives us life, died for us, and knows what’s best for us.
All earthly things pass away. Just knowing that for a fact, what are they worth?
We were all wonderfully made by the Lord. Look around you and you realize he loves diversity and things that are unique.
Psalm 139:13-14 – 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
That’s one of the worst parts about racism. Hate because someone is of a different ethnic group. Not because they do things that are wrong. They’re not doing things that are just flat out evil. People will hate others just because they are of a different heritage or skin color.
That definitely comes from sin and the fall. No man should ever even dislike someone before they even meet them. This body is a shell and is only just a holding tank of our spirit and soul.
It is important that we have love in our lives. God is love. When one hates the love of the Father can’t shine through that kind of a person. Hate ususally comes from your own bitterness of what you don’t care for and usually it’s about your own feelings.
Are there things we should hate? There is lots of things in the bible it says God hates. They all pertain to sin and evil.
Tolerance is being taught widely right now. The problem with tolerance is that much of it is against the teachings of the Lord. God is the one who says what’s right and what’s wrong. I believe we are to Love others around us, but at the same time hate evil.
Romans 12:9 – 9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
Condoning everything people do is not of God, that’s of this world. God has absolutes and rules.
The racism card gets played too much in the political sense. Racism is ugly, but the reason that it truly is, is because God made us all in his image as humans. He loves the uniqueness of all his creations. We are all brothers and sisters who are in the Lord and we can never forget that.
The only things we should hate, is what God hates and that is evil and those things that are detestable to Him.
Proverbs 8:13 – 13 To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.
Many people believe everyone would be happy in Heaven. How could anyone who was such a murderer and of God’s chosen people at that, who exalted himself and craved the power ever be happy in Heaven?
We take for granted that everyone would be happy in Heaven.
Hell has been created for God’s creatures that have rejected Him. That’s why hell was even created.
Anyone who only wants to serve themselves and not God will not be happy in Heaven. If I went to a place where they only had opera all day, I would not be happy. If I went to a place where I had to witness people being severely whipped for no reason, I would not be happy. If I had to go and watch a horror movie marathon, I would not be happy.
Heaven is for those who love the Lord. Anyone who is curious at all and wants to seek truth will find Him. Why wouldn’t someone seek God? Cause they’re busy.
Busy doing what? Living for themselves and not seeking the Creator at all. If you’re not seeking the Creator, you either believe the lie that there is no God, or you don’t care to take the time to seek Him.
There is no excuse come judgment or accounting time.
As humans are we arrogant? Oh yeah, we’re arrogant. We know what’s right, just ask us. Because the only thing that matters to most people is if it’s right for us.
What we should be concerned about is if it’s right in God’s eyes. How does the King feel about it?
The truth is people not seeking God or wanting God, will not be happy in a place where God is the center. Will they enjoy hell?
Revelation 20:10 – 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
No parties according to that verse. No it’s a place of torment. Would it be heaven for everyone who thirsts for righteousness and love if the unrepentant Hitler types of history we’re in there? Not that I could imagine.
God can’t make people love Him. God can’t make people serve Him. We make that choice or not.
Heaven however, is for those who love the Lord.
Education is useless without the Bible.
Noah Webster
The writer of Webster’s Dictionary was never at a loss for words.
His quote reminds me of this verse.
Mark 8:36 – 36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
Our country is full of people seeking education and not God. The result today is a bankrupt America. America is Bankrupt in just about every way. Our nation’s problem is not economic, it’s spiritual.
1 Corinthians 3:19 – 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;
Man is busy at work trying to fulfill his own ideas or pleasures. He doesn’t want anything to get in the way of the things he is trying to accomplish. Right now in the last days man is concerned about the planet.
We must not destroy it.
We must not destroy ourselves.
We must not overpopulate it.
While being responsible needs to be a concern, man thinks he needs to do them by himself and cannot fathom the idea of obeying God.
Strangely enough if everyone tried to live for God, we would be looking out for each other and we wouldn’t have most of these problems. Sin is where the problems come in. Selfishness is linked to many of them. Flat out demonic evil can be attributed many more that a lot of us can’t even understand.
Isn’t that how the fall happened in the first place? God I can’t stand the perfect world you provided me, I (selfish pride) have to be in charge! That happened with both the devil and Eve. With a little persuasion, you now have one third of the angels and all of mankind that refuses to repent.
How many refuse to repent?
Matthew 7:13-14 – 13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
Many more don’t find it than do find it. All man has to do is seek God and they will find His redemptive plan. Instead overall man still wants to do it his way. It is foolishness in God’s sight.
The blind leading the blind is a popular saying. When people don’t read the bible and know what God’s Word says, they are completely susceptible to man’s foolishness.
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to discover the Lord. Actually over time intellect seems to have driven a certain prideful gene that gets in the way for many in finding the Lord. However, when one with much intellect does submit to the Lord, wow, we are blessed even more as the body of Christ.
Foolishness….. it’s thinking yourself away from God and apart from God’s will.
Get into the Word and submit your will to Him and watch your relationship with the Lord strengthen.
You don’t have to beat someone over the head with God’s Word or His message. However, we need to constantly and continually plant those seeds because only the Lord knows the future.
You see there is a time coming soon when many are going to disappear in the rapture in a twinkling of an eye.
1 Corinthians 15:51-54 – 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
I truly believe that more souls will come to Jesus, within 24 hours after the rapture than any other one day period in history.
Why?
I believe it will be two reasons. One, people didn’t really accept the Lord that knew of Him. Two, there are those who were told about the rapture and didn’t believe a word of it and their attention has been received now. While the world is going to be panicked and many experts will be trying to give their best spiel on what happened, many will know that they missed the rapture. They’ll remember what many Christians had warned them about and it did happen just like they said it would.
So it is so important that you share. Share. SHARE God’s word and message of salvation! Because even if they don’t accept Him today, doesn’t mean they won’t at that time. Plant those seeds so they have the best chance at a good eternity.
Romans 8:31-39 – 31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
As human and fallen humans at that, we get confused about what is victory. We concentrate on this world and what happens here. We are conquerors in the overall picture that matters.
Romans 8:37-37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
This world is short and temporary. When we got saved, we got saved from the death that each and every person was going to have endure had not God shed His blood for us. A stated in earlier posts, we are conquerors because He is the conqueror. It says we are conquerors through HIM, our Lord. He does love us. God is love and to come back and die for us, He really is reaching out to His creation that loves Him.
Pray to the Lord always for His strength and protection, but never lose confidence if you don’t always understand why things are they way they are at certain times. Trust in the Lord, He loves those who love Him. If you accepted Christ as Savior, you are an heir and more than a conqueror.
Love Him. Truly love your Lord.
Psalm 84:10 – 10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
I was walking at work when the thought of how exciting it will be for us to be with the Lord. The thing that was going through my mind is the best day we have ever had here won’t be as good as the worst day on a scale in heaven. That’s pretty amazing when you think about it.
Then I get home that evening and I sit down at my computer and the Holy Spirit put Psalm 84:10 in my mind. Not just Psalm 84, but 84:10. It is really neat when this kind of stuff happens. It’s one of those assurances that the Lord wants me to blog on the topic.
We sing a song in church a lot which the chorus is on this verse. Better is one day in your courts, better is one day in your house, better is one day in your courts than thousands elsewhere.
How great will it be? Well God created the earth and every living thing on it. The earth is cursed after the fall and man has entered into sin. Still we have wondrous beauty and can still have great time in fellowship together and in God. It is beyond imagination of how a perfect world that God created along with his creation redeemed can be.
One thing we can rest assured and that is it will be great. Don’t listen to Satan’s voice. He’s a liar when he tries to convince you and others that Heaven sounds boring. Don’t buy into the lie of you better get while you can while its guarenteed.
John 8:44 – 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
The devil wants you to live for yourself. He doesn’t wanting you trying to help others find Jesus and share in His happiness later. We need to live by that faith and not listen to any doubt the wrong voice is saying.
I was reading in Colossians 4:3-4 – 3 And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. 4 Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should.
It dawned on me that if arguably the greatest missionary of all time is asking for those around him to pray for him and to open a door for his message, then I definitely need to do so.
We need to pray for each other all the time. Our missionaries, our pastors, and the teachers who are teaching the true word of the Lord need our prayers.
There is so much power in prayer and I’m not talking about a manipulative power like some are trying to peddle. No I’m talking about the kind that is God’s will. Praying for his message to get out and reach others so they may be saved from an eternity without God.
Please take a moment to pray that this ministry strengthens lives or may plant seeds to have some come to know the Lord.
Thank you so much and may God bless each reader of this also.
1 Corinthians 9:19 – 19 Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
Paul definitely knew the value of man being saved versus man perishing. His love for God and Jesus spilled over into love for others.
I have to be honest I don’t have enough of that love, but admire those who do and want more of that in my life. I’m one of those people who get pretty disgusted by the injustice, foolishness, and disregard of others. Pray for me in that area. I don’t want to be more tolerant by any means, just more caring and loving towards those who are lost and struggling. I need to pray more for them.
We really should all be thinking that someone who is dying without Christ is walking into a burning house. That would put our urgency in perspective. I know it’s not easy and I struggle as much as most, especially in today’s world. There is always a reason in most people’s lives of why they don’t have Jesus, or they do, but it doesn’t match the Jesus of the Bible. We just need to do our best and ask the Lord for the strength through Him.